Medical Scientist (Microbiology)

Reference : BIT-GBD-1

Are you a skilled Data Scientist with a passion for healthcare?

Look no further!

Our client is seeking a talented individual to join them in revolutionizing the medical field through data-driven insights. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes and healthcare innovation, we want to hear from you.

Join our client and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to leveraging data for better health outcomes in the healthcare industry.

Duties & Responsibilities

The role of the Data Scientist involves assisting the Data Science and Analytics team in developing and implementing data-driven monitoring, measurement, insights, and decision support.

This person will bring value to business domains by:

1. Offering insights and using data science to optimize and inform decision-making.
2. Developing automated predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions that support a range of business operations and tackle healthcare issues.
3. Participating in the entire data science development process, including understanding the business, defining the issue, cleaning and feature engineering the data, business modeling and simulation, developing and testing hypotheses, training machine learning models, refining and testing the models, and finally deploying and tracking the expected results within the business solutions.

Job Responsibilities / KPAs

1. Determine and evaluate cutting-edge data science methods applicable to predictive analytics products.
2. Assist with data science trends research, particularly for applications in the healthcare sector.
3. Involve business stakeholders in the discovery phase to pinpoint opportunities or business challenges, gather requirements, and discuss anticipated results of modeling and solutions.
4. Collaborate with industry stakeholders to identify solutions for addressing important business issues and concentrate on creating fresh business plans.
5. Help in creating conceptual models or designs to meet corporate needs.
6. Work with subject matter specialists to identify pertinent data sources and comprehend business needs to ensure models are supplied appropriately.
7. Examine and revise all data science-related policies.
8. Present trends, correlations, and patterns uncovered in complex datasets clearly, conveying significant insights and supporting recommendations to business personnel across various roles and skill levels.
9. Provide management with succinct reports that include relevant visuals and discussions.

Role Requirements

1. Degree (Honours, Masters or PhD) in Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a combination of these.
2. Relevant data science certifications such as Python, Microsoft, AWS, Hadoop, big data, machine learning, cloud infrastructure.
3. Minimum of 5-6 years' experience in data science-related projects.
4. Experience with Python / Microsoft ML and tools available within the machine learning ecosystem (i.e., Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy stack) and working in Jupyter notebooks.
5. Experience with SQL and working with large-scale data sets.
6. Knowledge and practical experience applying machine learning techniques.
7. Experience working in agile development teams.
8. Experience in operationalizing data science solutions or similar product development.
9. Experience in a high-scale production environment is critical.

Salary

R55,000 - R66,000 Monthly plus Fully Remote, Pension, Medical Aid

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