Job Description
The Data Scientist I, Advanced Methods role is a Commercial Research position contributing to the development of Oracle Life Science's commercial offer, harnessing health databases, healthcare expertise, and knowledge of the commercialization needs of the life sciences industry. The role works directly with Senior/Client Leads, Research to determine the best methods and approaches to answer business questions utilizing real world data sources and primary market research.
What you can expect from working with Oracle Life Sciences
A passionate and growing quantitative network comprising expertise in advanced methods, behavioral science, electronic health records, and digital methods.
A stead-fast and growth strategy focused on oncology, rare disease, and specialist healthcare / life-science
Work within a team (immediate and global) culture of growth-mindset and collaboration, focused on inclusivity, idea sharing and fun
A development framework, encompassing all levels of the career journey, to enhance knowledge and skills in this ever-evolving industry
Primary Responsibilities:
Designs, develops and programs methods, processes, and systems to consolidate and analyze unstructured, diverse "big data" sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for client services and product enhancement. Also supports advanced analytics for primary market research.
This position is critical to identifying insights from health data to answer life sciences commercial business questions and improve patient outcomes.
Enable development of commercial syndicated and semi-syndicated offers from real world data
Provide internal and client support and education regarding health data sets
Support custom commercial business development discussions regarding real world data and participate in the creation of custom commercial proposals
Support execution and completion of custom projects involving real world data
Technical Responsibilities
Access, extract, cleanse, compile and transform disparate data sets to conduct exploratory and pre-defined analyses using scientifically valid techniques to determine data quality and generate meaningful insights
Contribute to discovery of meaningful insights from the data that relate to important use-cases using scientifically valid techniques
Support iterative selection and application of modern statistical and machine learning techniques and evaluation methods to derive best candidate approaches and models
Interact with clinical and business teams and leaders to identify relevant questions and issues for data analysis and experimentation that support client clinical and business needs or problems.
Propose new uses for existing data sets or sources, algorithms, and predictive models
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
Education: Masters (Ph.D. preferred) in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Information Systems, Information Technologies, Management Information Systems, Computer Sciences, Public Health, or Epidemiology or related area of study
Minimum of 3+ years industry experience in data science work including data management, transformation, and visualization
At least 3 years of work experience with SQL, Python, or PySpark
Proficient in communicating effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Experience building complex data sets from multiple data sources, both internally and externally
Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R), experience with machine learning
Preferred Qualifications
At least 1 year of work experience with Cloud technologies, like AWS, Azure, or OCI
At least 1 year of work experience with Big Data tools, like Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks
Advanced competency and expertise in Python, Databricks, and other platforms
Advanced competency with unstructured data and NLP techniques
Strong background working with predictive and statistical modeling, machine learning and strong expertise in all phases of the modeling pipeline
Responsibilities
Intermediate-level position who is responsible for applying scientific, clinical, and healthcare knowledge to provide solutions to customers. Apply best-in class research theories and methods to deliver an optimal solution build and implementation. As a member of team, exercises judgement within defined procedures to introduce innovative research collection and analysis methodologies on external customer engagements. Work involves using analytical skills sufficient to interpret data/ instructions and applying the relevant research techniques with some autonomy. Receives general instruction on new projects or assignments. Makes recommendations to enhance performance and research results. Possesses solid knowledge in reference to creating project and client related research materials.
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from $30.29 to $60.63 per hour; from: $63,000 to $126,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC2
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