Data Science Team Lead
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Data Science and Analysis Team Lead overseeing a team of data scientists and analysts at NEC. Focus on health data and statistical methodologies to support healthcare initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee a team of data scientists and data analysts
- Prioritise and schedule the competing workloads of the team to meet delivery timelines
- Lead regular update and 1-to-1 meetings with team members
- Liaise with industry and academic partners to align and improve our statistical methodology and reporting strategy
- Identify and provide appropriate training opportunities for members of the data science and analytics team
- Explore real-world-evidence data sets for registry-specific analytical opportunities
- Coordinate and assist with the generation of regularly scheduled and bespoke reports, including the plotting of charts using standard libraries
- Take charge of data cleansing, quality assurance and supporting integration.
- Contribute ideas to improve productivity and delivery.
- Liaise with members of the data quality, development, business analyst and business consultant teams to deliver collaborative outputs
- Build an extensive clinical knowledge base through meeting regularly with clinical steering committees
- Work closely with clinicians to understand and support their reporting and analytical needs
Requirements:
- A postgraduate degree in computer science, statistics, biology or a related quantitative discipline.
- Expert R (R Studio) programming skills for manipulation/cleaning, report generation, visualisation of data, statistical analysis and modelling
- Experience leading a team of data scientists or analysts
- Proficiency with SQL (Azure) for data manipulation, extract creation and aggregation of data from disparate sources
- Proven experience cleansing, processing and managing large data sets
- Proven experience responding creatively to analytical briefs
- Experience with data warehouses and open database connectivity
- Statistical expertise (including survival analysis and predictive modelling)
- The ability to deliver under pressure and without regular supervision
- Proven problem-solving skills and ability to work to deadlines
- Self-motivation and a flexible approach to work
- The ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment
- Experience working with health data including clinical data registries
- Experience working with ‘unclean’ data and free text
- An interest in the application of machine learning, NLP and AI to solve problems related to health data and patient safety
- Experience using Snowflake/DBT Prompt Engineering for Github Copilot or equivalent
Benefits:
- Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
- 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell
- 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
- A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
- A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs



















