Public Health Data Scientist — Analytics for Impact

County-of-Los-Angeles; California; Presencial; USD 95.000 - 135.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

County of Los Angeles seeks an Emergency Health Program Analyst III to lead data science projects addressing homelessness. You will collaborate with departments, solicit business problems, and perform exploratory analysis and modeling for actionable insights.

The role emphasizes visualizing findings, documenting requirements, building dashboards, and communicating complex results to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Formación

• Two years applying advanced statistical analyses to support data‑driven decisions.
• Bachelor’s degree in data science or related field with 12 semester or 18 quarter units in data science/predictive analytics; four years of experience for Option II.
• Master’s or Doctoral degree may substitute for up to two years of experience.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage data science projects from conception to implementation.
• Develop visualizations of findings and recommendations to support business decisions and resource allocation.
• Document business requirements and frame problems for applicable data science techniques.
• Identify and select relevant data sources including internal, external, structured, and unstructured data.
• Support collection, integration, and retention of large data sets with IT, consulting on data systems and processes.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and IT staff to evaluate and improve tools and systems.
• Independently conduct advanced analytical studies using ML, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and optimization.
• Use scripting and programming languages to prepare and visualize data.
• Plan and manage experiments and surveys to augment data sources.

Conocimientos

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

Data visualization

Data cleaning

Collaboration

Version control

ETL processes

Educación

Bachelor's degree in data science or related field

Master's/Doctoral may substitute for up to 2 years

Herramientas

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

Databricks Dashboards

Sparks

Azure Synapse

Descripción del empleo

County of Los Angeles seeks an Emergency Health Program Analyst III to lead data science projects addressing homelessness. You will collaborate with departments, solicit business problems, and perform exploratory analysis and modeling for actionable insights.

The role emphasizes visualizing findings, documenting requirements, building dashboards, and communicating complex results to both technical and nontechnical audiences.