Data Scientist II — Health Equity Analytics

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 76,500 - 93,500; Full time

Job summary

University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking a Data Scientist II/III to advance population health analytics, develop reproducible workflows, and share dashboards for public health decision-makers.

The role combines statistical analysis with state-of-the-art data science, using R, Python, SQL, and open‑source tools. Some onsite work is required with potential remote collaboration across campuses and partners.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of health-related applied research, statistics, and analytics.
• Advanced proficiency with Python and R.
• Experience with GitHub for version control and collaboration.
• Proficiency in interactive dashboards using Shiny, Quarto, Streamlit or Dash.
• Experience with diverse datasets including mortality, health indicators, and non-traditional sources.

Responsibilities

• Compose reproducible workflows and reports for researchers/administrators.
• Prepare datasets including cleaning and integration of sources.
• Document approaches to address research questions and reproducible methodologies.
• Apply data science techniques to identify patterns and answer questions via visualization, ML, data mining.
• Organize and automate project steps for data prep and analysis.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

GitHub

Data Visualization

Statistical Analysis

Education

Master's Degree in Population Health

PhD in Population Health

Tools

Shiny

Quarto

Streamlit

Dash

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Spark

Databricks

Job description

University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking a Data Scientist II/III to advance population health analytics, develop reproducible workflows, and share dashboards for public health decision-makers.

The role combines statistical analysis with state-of-the-art data science, using R, Python, SQL, and open‑source tools. Some onsite work is required with potential remote collaboration across campuses and partners.