Lead Data Scientist at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

About the role

The Lead Data Scientist will serve as a data science expert in the analysis and classification of public health surveillance, research, and administrative health data. They will also serve as Team Lead for a team of data scientists.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a data science expert in the analysis and classification of public health surveillance, research, and administrative health data.
• Serve as Team Lead for a team of data scientists.
• Consult and collaborate with statistical, data science, artificial intelligence and public health professionals in the collection, linkage, processing, mining, coding, classification, and analysis of public health surveillance, research, and administrative health data.
• Aid in preparing comprehensive reports that include discussion of substantive issues related to data science methodology for public health surveillance and related applications, assessment of the adequacy and quality of data used in the analyses, and explanation of the methods, results, and relevance to the health issue under study.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: Degree in Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or a field directly related to the position, or combination of education and experience.
• Minimum Qualifications: One year of specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position, including performing data science work that requires knowledge of public health data systems, converting data, and proficiency in data science; developing and analyzing structured and unstructured data; and understanding of data science methods (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing).