Senior Data Scientist - R Programming

About the Company: Our consultancy client is hiring for a Senior Data Scientist to join a project in the Biostatistics space. Stakeholder management and client facing experience must be excellent. It is essential to be an expert in R programming. Start date is ASAP and interviews will likely commence from Monday. The role can be based anywhere in the EU but GMT time zone.

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop professional quality R packages;
• Provide consultancy on Biostats model development and deployment best practices;
• Review and optimise code, integrate existing modelling code into packages;
• Design and implement end to end modelling and deployment process on Databricks;
• Support and collaborate with adjacent teams (e.g. products, IT) to integrate the modelling solution;
• Continually innovate with the team and the customer on using modern tooling to improve model development and deployment;

Ideal Experience:

• A background or work experience in biostatistics or a similar discipline;
• Strong R programming, and R package development;
• Statistical model deployment, and end-to-end MLOps is nice to have;
• Having worked extensively on cloud infrastructure, preferably Databricks and Azure;
• Shiny development is nice to have;
• Can work with customer stakeholders to understand business processes and workflows, and can design solutions to optimize processes via streamlining and automation;
• DevOps experience and familiarity with software release process;
• Familiar with agile delivery methods.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Business Consulting and Services