Bachelor's degree and five years of professional research experience in public health, epidemiology, medicine, program evaluation, statistics, biostatistics, psychology, sociology, social science, economics, information science, or a related area.
Substitutions: Master's degree in an appropriate field may substitute for one year of experience. Ph.D. in an appropriate field may substitute for an additional year of experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong statistical and data management skills. Proficient in the use of data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI, with Tableau experience strongly preferred. Experience with SPSS, R and/or SQL, Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point. Experience extracting, merging, and linking health care datasets, including Medicaid data, for the application of data visualization and advanced statistical analysis. Knowledge of statistical methods and their application for predictive analytics. Excellent communication and organizational skills. The ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
Duties Description
The Research Scientist 4 will serve as the Assistant Bureau Director of Data Integration and Governance. They will work within the Bureau of Data Analytics, Integration, and Governance and will assist in setting internal standards and data policy activities within the Division of Data Strategy and Management (DSM). The incumbent will work under the direction of the Director of the Bureau of Data Analytics, Integration, and Governance.
Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Supporting enterprise data governance with CIO.
- Assuming responsibility for integrating data to be the single source of truth to provide accurate and actionable data to support all OPWDD programs and to inform senior management on issues related to strategic planning, data management, and outcomes measurement.
- Demonstrating ability to extract and process data from structured and unstructured data sets.
- Supervising and training Research Scientists in the Bureau in areas of subject matter expertise, including Salient and SQL Developer.
- Demonstrating ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment, helping researchers with data integration and management and developing pipelines to empower data analysis throughout the entire scientific and translational research process.
- Designing and executing analysis independently and collaboratively with other research scientists and subject matter experts, including interacting with other research/data scientists in OPWDD.
- Presenting and/or publishing plans, processes, or findings at conferences/journals.
- Demonstrating a strong interest in learning new programming languages and environments and tools.
- Collecting, managing, and governing different types of data from various sources and integrating these interoperable data into curated data sets, making them readily available to the broader research and staff community.
- Conducting routine data quality and consistency checks and resolving data discrepancies.
- Working with other scientists to develop and apply statistically rigorous solutions for study design, data analysis, and information.
- Assuming responsibility for front-line management and supervision of junior staff, including allocating workload, ensuring training completion and certification, and that time and attendance records are properly and timely maintained.
- Building DSM data library.
- Assuming responsibility for OPWDD's Care Coordination Data Dictionary/Life Plan Data Exchange including integrating data with clinical information.
- Working with CIO to design, build, and operate software platforms and infrastructure for managing, distribution, and scalable data.
- Utilizing a background in computer science, statistics, or biostatics.
- Establishing an analysis repository.
- Demonstrating a proficiency in data collection, cleaning, formatting, visualization, analysis, and reporting.
- Utilizing experience in programming/coding using Python, R, and SQL.
- Interacting with a multidisciplinary team of internal and external peers to communicate progress and outcomes of planned work regularly, effectively, and openly.
- Attending weekly team meetings to discuss team and project-related activities, issues, change, communications, and updates.
Telecommuting will be discussed at interview.
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