Lead Data Scientist

This is an ideal role for a candidate with previous experience in applied Healthcare data analysis & insights generation and wishing to grow their career in healthcare analytics and towards finding critical solutions to drive patient outcomes.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Implements robust data governance processes, maintaining well-documented and current business rules.
• Identifies opportunities for enhancing data processes and access, optimizing analytics applications.
• Develops and upholds efficient data access procedures, ensuring data is maximized for analysis methods and advanced analytics applications.
• Establishes ongoing data quality metrics, enabling early detection of data issues in ingestion and curation, ensuring accuracy and reliability for analytics.
• Implements effective data quality controls, building confidence among key users and stakeholders, including Data Scientists.
   

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

Must have:

• Total IT experience required 5-7 years.
• 2+ years of experience working with unstructured data analysis/text analytics/natural language processing.
• 2 + Experience in machine learning, NLP, python and/or R
• 2+ years preferred experience with SQL or other programming/database manipulation methods and tools to collect, integrate, and manipulate data for analytics usage and reporting.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Python programming, SQL, Statistics, data pipelines and data story telling through visualization methods e.g., PowerBI, PowerPoint, Excel etc.
• Working knowledge of cloud based and local data science frameworks and toolkits. Experience in Azure / Databricks is preferred but GCP / AWS would be considered.

Good to have:

• Working with, integrating, and using healthcare data preferred.
• Be able to compile, integrate and analyze data from multiple sources to answer business questions and ad-hoc analysis requests.
• Should be able to independently drive stakeholder discussions and project delivery.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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