Data Science Analyst 2
About The Position
The Department of AI & Health seeks an experienced Data Scientist 2 to join our research unit and provide technical leadership in advancing our computational health research capabilities. This mid-level position combines hands-on data science expertise with team leadership responsibilities, playing a pivotal role in establishing our department as a leader in AI-driven health research. You will lead complex research projects involving medical imaging, electronic health records, genomics, and real-time patient monitoring data while mentoring team members and contributing to our growing portfolio of high-impact research in predictive diagnostics, personalized medicine, and clinical decision support systems. Your leadership will directly enable grant acquisition, accelerate publication output in top-tier journals, attract doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, and establish valuable partnerships with clinical departments and external collaborators seeking robust computational capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Data Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field with three years related experience.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Detail-oriented.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software/databases.
Nice To Haves
- Prior involvement in healthcare, academic operations, or public sector analytics.
- Familiarity with EHR systems (Epic, Encompass) or academic admissions systems (AMCAS).
Responsibilities
- Utilizes a solid understanding of fundamental design concepts during all stages within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Shared responsibility with team lead for the Design stage within the SDLC. Shared responsibility with junior developers for the following stages within the SDLC: Construction, Testing, Debugging, and Deployment. Analyzes and identifies solution-wide testing requirements. Investigates systematic and operational issues and identifies potential solutions. Flexibility with both SysOps and DevOps opportunities. Leverages advanced knowledge of Microsoft, open-source, and web standard technologies such as ASP. NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, C#, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and T-SQL to design and develop technical solutions to new and existing problems with varying scale and complexity utilizing fundamental design concepts and department standards to support work at the intersection of longitudinal machine learning, multi-modal analysis, clinical informatics, and population health.
- Develops and maintains applications and databases by working with the team lead in evaluating client needs, analyzing requirements, and developing software systems across multiple projects. Arranges project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Prepares workflow documents using knowledge of client capabilities, subject matter, development technologies, and logic. Confirms program operation, integrity, consistency, and standards compliance with each platform necessitated by the client.
- Identifies and transcribes client requirements and requests using interpersonal skills and ability to translate to all technical or non-technical audiences. Provides design and requirements for user guide documentation and validates its content. Oversight of customer service tasks such as user training, user queries, operational problems, and system problems. Enhance staff accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions, answering technical and procedural questions, teaching improved processes, and conveying general accessibility.
- Serves as team lead to junior application developers.
Benefits
- Augusta University offers a variety of benefits to full-time benefits-eligible employees and some of our half-time (or more) employees.
- Benefits that may be elected could include health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, Teachers Retirement System (or Optional Retirement Plan), as well as earned vacation time, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays.
- Also, our full-time employees who have been employed with us successfully for more than 6 months can be considered for the Tuition Assistance Program. Consider applying with us today!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Educational Services
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
