Experience Required 2 years of experience

Minimum Education Required Bachelor's Degree

Education Or Experience Substitution N/A

License(s) Required N/A

Training Required/Provided N/A

Compensation $

Hours Per Week 40

Number Of Positions 1

Work Schedule and Shift Requirements This position can work from home 2 days per week.

Job Description Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government and its Department of Public Health and Wellness is seeking a Health Data Scientist for its Louisville, KY location who develops, maintains, and collects structured and unstructured data sets for analysis and reporting. Specifically, the Health Data Scientist will perform the following duties:

Creates reports, projections, models, and presentations to support business strategy and tactics.

Builds statistical models and performs hypothesis testing, power testing, and regression modeling as part of ongoing or planned studies.

Collaborates with other trend teams to communicate trend impact to leaders.

Researches and evaluates innovative analytical methodologies, approaches, and solutions.

Provides support for Electronic Health Record implementation for various clinical programs within the Public Health department Identifies standards, policies, and procedures for use in agency's informatics projects.

Analyzes, integrates and improves healthcare information systems within local public health department.

Selects software and vendor tools and defines the appropriate technical and analytic approach required.

Provides project management for implementation of new IT program platforms within health department programs.

Identifies appropriate resources, data sources and collection methods for quality projects.

Customizes the approach and solution to problem solving and maximizing results including writing new algorithms and modifying the existing ones.

Accesses and queries databases and data sources (RDBMS, NoSQL, NewSQL).

Integrates data into an analytics-driven data source.

Finds and chooses the optimal data sources and data features (variables), including creating new ones as needed (feature engineering).

Understands and selects the best statistical, programming, and library/package options available.

Ensures data has high integrity, quality, and is in optimal form and condition to guarantee accurate, reliable, and statistically significant results.

Selects and implements the best tooling, algorithms, frameworks, languages, and technologies to maximize results and scale as needed.

Chooses the correct performance metrics and applies the appropriate techniques in order to maximize performance.

Discovers ways to leverage data to achieve business goals without guidance and/or deliverables being dictated from the top down.

Works cross-functionally, effectively, and in collaboration with all departments and groups Performs related work.

Minimum Requirements:

Must have Bachelor's degree in Biology, Computer Sciences, Economics, Engineering Mathematics, Physics, Public Administration, or Public Health Related field (or foreign equivalent). Required experience must include 2 years of experience in each of the following specific areas:

Project implementation, statistics, health informatics or healthcare research;

Developing, maintaining, and collecting structured and unstructured data sets for analysis and reporting;

Coding in SAS, SQL, R or Python;

Creating reports and presentations to support business; and

Salesforce, Redcap, NEDSS, PowerBi, Tableau, or all Microsoft suite applications.

Required experience must also include 1 year of experience in each of the following specific area:

Using statistics to transform high volumes of complex data into advanced analytic solutions.

This position can work from home 2 days per week.

To apply, send resume to tandrhiring@louisvilleky.gov. REFERENCE: "Health Data Scientist"

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer Yes

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant No

Veteran Preference No

Background Check Required No

Industry Other

Place of Work

Hybrid

Requisition ID

39368

Application Instructions

To apply, send resume to tandrhiring@louisvilleky.gov. REFERENCE: "Health Data Scientist"

Louisville Metro Government

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