What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at Georgia Department of Community Health?
Pay Grade: L
The Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) is one of Georgia's four health agencies serving the state's growing population of over 10 million people. DCH serves as the lead agency for Medicaid, oversees the State Health Benefit Plan (SHBP) and Healthcare Facility Regulation, impacting one in four Georgians.
Through effective planning, purchasing and oversight, DCH provides access to affordable, quality health care to millions of Georgians, including some of the state's most vulnerable and under-served populations. Six enterprise offices support the work of the agency’s three program divisions. DCH employees are based in Atlanta, Cordele and across the state.
DCH is committed to providing superior Customer Service and Communication, embracing Teamwork and fostering Accountability to ensure that our internal and external customers and stakeholders feel included, respected, engaged and secure.
Under broad supervision, examines questions which need answering and identifies where to find the related data. Uses business acumen and analytical skills to mine, clean and present data. Performs complex statistical, financial, or operational data analysis and reporting in support of management decision making in functional area. Identifies trends, discrepancies, and variances to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Department operations and performance. May partner with other divisions, outside agencies, and vendors to address business issues and exercises various latitudes of independent judgment. Data scientist roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Mines and extracts usable data from valuable data sources.
- Sources, manages, and analyzes large amounts of unstructured and structured data.
- Enhances data collection procedures to include all relevant information for developing analytic processes.
- Processes, cleanses, and validates the integrity of data to be used for analysis.
- Analyzes large amounts of information to find patterns and solutions to known issues.
- Develops algorithms to support the analytics maturity model for descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
- Creates appropriate data visualizations based on the needs of the analysis.
- Presents and documents analytic results in a clear manner.
- Propose solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges.
- Collaborate with Business and IT teams.
- Bachelor's degree in big data, decision sciences, statistics or related field from an accredited college or university
- Two years of data analysis experience.
- Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and/or Python programming.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Data analysis in a healthcare setting.
- Experience with Tableau and/or Power BI development.
- Experience with R programming.
- Experience with a snowflake data warehouse environment
EARN MORE THAN A SALARY! In addition to a competitive salary, the Georgia Department of Community Health offers a generous benefits package, which includes employee retirement plan; paid holidays annually; vacation and sick leave; health, dental, vision, legal, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, health and childcare spending account.
Due to the volume of applications received, we are unable to provide information on application status by phone or e-mail. All qualified applicants will be considered, but may not necessarily receive an interview. Selected applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for next steps in the selection process. Applicants who are not selected will not receive notification.
THIS POSITION IS SUBJECT TO CLOSE AT ANY TIME ONCE A SATISFACTORY APPLICANT POOL HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. APPLICATIONS WITHOUT WORK EXPERIENCE LISTED WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.CURRENT GEORGIA STATE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WILL BE SUBJECT TO STATE PERSONNEL BOARD (SPB) RULE PROVISIONS. THE POSITION MAY BE FILLED AT A LOWER OR HIGHER POSITION LEVEL.
This position is unclassified and employment is at-will. Candidates for this position are subject to a pre-employment background history and reference check.
For more information about this job and other career opportunities with DCH, please visit our Careers Page: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/dchga.
Salary : $47,983 - $70,000
