Research Data Scientist

Avera Research Institute-Rapid City

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$82,160.00 - $123,240.00

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Plays a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining data infrastructure and pipelines to support research initiatives. The Data Scientist is an expert in the field of data sciences, responsible for supporting work in managing, synthesizing, and analyzing data. This position will collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure the efficient and reliable flow of data for analysis, modeling, and experimentation; utilizing knowledge of enterprise data warehousing, statistical and data mining methods and perform data preparation, processing, and analysis. This will include reproducible research, statistical inference, regression models and machine learning. This position requires experience working with large research data and medical records.

What you will do

• Gathers, cleans, and preprocesses data from various sources (i.e. research, clinical, and publicly available data), ensuring data quality and integrity.
• Develops and maintains databases to automate research data collection and processing tasks.
• Develops and maintains data integration processes and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to consolidate data from various sources, while ensuring data quality, accuracy, and consistency throughout the integration process.
• Automates data extraction, transformation, and loading processes to enable real-time or scheduled data updates.
• Performs descriptive/exploratory data analysis to gain a deep understanding of the dataset’s characteristics, patterns, and potential biases.
• Designs and develops machine learning and/or statistical models to address research questions and objectives.
• Writes memos, reports, dashboards and visualize data to communicate findings effectively to researchers, study managers and lay population.
• Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including researchers, clinicians, domain experts, and engineers, to align research goals with data-driven insights.
• Interacts and consults with researchers and clinical staff to ensure proper data collection and management methods during the entire study process.
• Communicates research findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through reports, presentations, and visualizations.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Master's in Informatics, Mathematics, (Bio) Statistics, Data Science or related field
• Strong proficiency in programming languages
• Professional experience and knowledge of database management, analysis, and synthesis
• Expertise in research databases/SQL

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO front-loaded for eligible hires

• Free health insurance options, for full-time single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan

• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement

• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status.  If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to talent@avera.org.

Salary : $82,160 - $123,240