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  • Data Scientist - Office of Translational Research, Shirely Ryan AbilityLab (Chicago, IL, USA)

    Job Description

    The Data Scientist is responsible for building analytical processes and models, and oversees data science projects independently, including monitoring progress and proactively identifying barriers. Executes data analysis, machine learning, predictive modeling, statistics, visualization, and other data science techniques to derive actionable insights.

    The Data Scientist will consistently demonstrate support of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab statement of Vision, Mission and Core Values by striving for excellence, contributing to the team efforts and showing respect and compassion for patients and their families, fellow employees, and all others with whom there is contact at or in the interest of the institute.

    The Data Scientist will demonstrate Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Core Attributes: Communication, Accountability, Flexibility/Adaptability, Judgment/Problem Solving, Customer Service and Core Values (Hope, Compassion, Discovery, Collaboration, & Commitment to Excellence) while fulfilling job duties.

    Principal Responsibilities
    • Employ advanced analytical techniques to create and drive adoption of data-based products and processes to add business value for internal and external customers.
    • Create analytical processes for automated machine driven decision making where human decision making is not scalable or feasible.
    • Work with internal stakeholders to develop advanced analyses that help them solve challenging business problems
    • Select features, build and optimize classifiers using machine learning techniques
    • Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
    • Process, clean, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis
    • Conduct ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clean, clear and actionable manner
    • Perform statistical modeling and hypothesis testing
    • Design, train, and validate results from a breadth of machine learning algorithms
    • Write clean, efficient, well-documented code
    • Integrate with various RDBMS (e.g., Postgres, MySQL)
    • Deploy applications into cloud-based infrastructures (e.g., AWS)
    • Build deep neural networks with modern tools, such as PyTorch or Tensorflow
    • Build, test, and deploy computer vision based solutions
    • Build, test, and deploy reinforcement learning based solutions
    • Create and interact with RESTful APIs
    • Collaborate via Git, Slack, and other collaboration software
    • Performs other duties that may be assigned in the best interest of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
    Reporting Relationships
    • Reports directly to the Chief Data Officer as part of the Data Innovation and Analytics Lab (DIAL).
    Working Conditions
    • Normal office environment with little or no exposure to dust or extreme temperature.
    Required Experience
    • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering or related field
    • Minimum of 2 years of experience with data collection, extraction, and statistical analysis and modeling.
    • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
    • Previous exposure to ETL, data model design, and data warehouse concepts
    • Expertise in translating strategic questions into tactical work plans and outputs
    • Experience working with large, complex data sets, normalizing and building training sets and models
    • Using advanced machine learning techniques to combine and compare large data sets
    • Ability to install and configure tools needed for analysis of large data sets
    • Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as kNN, Naïve Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
    • Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Python, Weka, Anaconda, etc.
    • Experience with text mining and Natural Language Processing algorithms
    • Ability to present results of analysis to differing audiences within healthcare on both the financial and clinical side (CFO, CEO, CMIO, Physicians, etc.)
    • Experience with data visualization tools, such as D3.js, ggplot2, etc.
    • Experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Knowi
    • Strong applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, time-series analysis, etc.
    • Strong scripting and programming skills
    • Experience with cloud environments
    • Able to use professional concepts and apply company policies/procedures to work on problems/issues of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
    • Understanding of the challenges of large scale cloud deployment of products developed from data science techniques
    About Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

    Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is the global leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults and children with the most severe, complex conditions. By joining our team, you will be part of our life-changing Mission and Vision. You’ll work in a truly inclusive environment where diversity and equity are championed through words and actions. You’ll contribute to an innovative culture that is second to none, one that embraces curiosity, discovery and compassion. You’ll play a role in something that’s never been done before as we integrate science and clinical care to help patients achieve better, faster outcomes — as we Advance Human Ability, together.

    The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

    Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

    For additional information and to apply, please use the following link:
    https://ricc-hr.silkroad.com/epostin...1&jobid=182547

    Rebecca Macaluso
    Biomedical Engineer
    Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
    rmacaluso@sralab.org
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