Data Scientist - Remote

Position Details: Client: Pharmaceutical Company Position Title: Data Scientist III Duration: 06 months (Possibilities of extension) Location:  REMOTE Pay range: $65/hr to $70/hr Job Description: What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position: • 3+ years of analytics related experience in clinical research. Experience with clinical data preferred • Experience with Spotfire or similar visualization tool • Experience with R programming • Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders and gathering requirements, implementing analytic solutions, and enabling data driven insights • Experience with programming and implementing visualizations with MicroStrategy. Roles and Responsibilities: • Manage and execute analytic needs for a set of clinical trials based on therapeutic alignment Partner with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven insights to support the end-to-end clinical trial execution through fit-for-purpose analytics support • Identify business needs on a study and support the creation of RBQM deliverables (KRIs/QTLs), data review deliverables, or study specific reports or analyses as required. • Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions • Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized • In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, Machine Learning and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights • Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine • Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, Client's Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development • Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses • Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent field. Master’s degree preferred • Must have 3+ years of analytics-related experience in clinical research including demonstrated high-level analytics and leadership competencies. • Advanced career level proficiency in R, Python or other statistical packages. Intermediate-level knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques • Expert proficiency with visualization tools like Spotfire, Tableau or equivalent • Demonstrated effective communication skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate analytical and technical concepts in layman’s terms • Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills • Demonstrated history of successful execution in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to navigate a matrixed work organization • Exhibits excellent organizational skills to manage multiple priorities and projects. • Communicates clearly, translating business needs into actionable analytics requirement • Strong technical expertise and proficiency with R, Python or other statistical packages. Proficiency with visualization tools such as Spotfire or equivalent • Fosters innovation and an entrepreneurial culture within the team that attracts and retains top talent; creates an environment of continuous learning • Effectively influences cross-functional stakeholders to identify and unlock the full potential of data and analytics. • Thrives in fast-paced environments and adapts quickly to changing priorities. Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, (paid time , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - These all are subject to applicable eligibility).