Senior Data Scientist

1 week ago

Stellenbosch, South Africa Stellenbosch University Full time

Duties/Pligte
**- Utilising domain expertise, analytical skills, and software knowledge to support the development and maintenance of data take-on processes and curating routine health data.
- Being actively involved in data beneficiation, interpretation, inference, analysis and reporting.
- Developing algorithms and tools to support the implementation of community-based DR-TB household contact management.
- Processing and delivering reports, actionable line lists, monitoring and evaluation tools against data requests of varying complexity.
- Providing supervision to junior data personnel as needed.
- Developing and implementing training programmes, user guides, and other products that promote understanding of the Provincial Health Data Centre patient management digital tools.
**Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes
**- Master's or PhD in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Information Systems, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Demography, Biostatistics, Epidemiology.
- At least five (5) years' experience in enterprise cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
**Required Experience**:
A minimum of five years' experience in the following:
**- Health information systems and health data interoperability.
- Experience and proficiency in SQL, DataBricks, and PySpark.
- Working with large disparate sets of data (hundreds of millions of records).
- Statistical expertise and broader software programming experience.
- Working with stored procedures and views.
- Working with a scripting language e.g. Python, R.
- Technical communication and presentation of ideas.
**Required Key Competencies**:

- Competence in working in an ever-changing environment and modifying plans accordingly.
- Advanced knowledge of and proficiency with cloud technology including Azure SQL, and interactive data visualisation software such as PowerBI.
- The ability to design databases and build new ETL processes.
- Analytic skills to conceptualise and execute data extraction and analysis tasks.
- The ability to conceptualise, design and implement efficient actionable data-driven reports.
- Demonstrable strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively create, edit and review relevant reports and presentations.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Recommendation/Aanbeveling

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