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A Brief Overview

The Data Analytics Lead will join an internationally recognized group at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that serves as the Data and Statistical Coordinating Center for PEDSnet (pedsnet.org), the National Pediatric Learning Health System. They will work within a dynamic team of data analysts, data scientists, programmers, and researchers that are part of PEDSnet, advancing the knowledgebase foundational to pediatric health and healthcare. PEDSnet is based within the Research Institute's Applied Clinical Research Center. PEDSnet has developed a multi-institutional EHR database that includes millions of pediatric patients, inclusive of their inpatient and outpatient data. The database is used for observational research, quasi-experimental intervention studies, disease and healthcare intervention surveillance, quality improvement, and recruitment into prospective clinical studies and trials.

The Data Analytics Lead will collaborate with the PEDSnet Data Coordinating Center Directors to provide analytics leadership for a large portfolio of research projects, will conduct data analyses themselves, and supervise a growing team of statistical and data science analysts who use the EHR data for these purposes. PEDSnet's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institutes, the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC, Industry, Foundations, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Key objectives of this role include:

1. Develop and manage PEDSnet's analytic standards and protocols, including statistical and data analysis plans, variable dictionaries, reusable statistical code, and results reporting.

2. Effectively use EHR and related data to answer research questions using a variety of statistical modeling methods in collaboration with researchers.

3. Collaborate with data infrastructure team to integrate study operations and analytics with data pipeline, modeling, and operational activities.

4. Provide guidance and develop processes for study operations that increase efficiency and streamline projects and analytics. Oversee the provision analytic datasets for research terms outside CHOP.

What you will do

• Implement computational algorithms and experiments for test and evaluation; interprets data to assess algorithm performance.
• Develop high-quality code implementing models and algorithms as application programming interfaces or other service-oriented software implementations.
• Participate in communication of research methods, implementation, and results to varied audience of clinicians, scientists, analysts, and programmers.
• Work closely with applications research group to translate models and algorithms into engineered production applications.
• Contribute to manuscript writing for results publication, authors abstracts, and presents at professional conferences.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Bachelor's Degree Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field Preferred
• MS/MA or PhD preferred in Informatics, Epidemiology, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or a related field. Years in educational training programs can substitute required work experience.

Experience Qualifications

• At least one (1) year with progressively more complex data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or mathematical modeling projects Preferred
• 6+ years of experience with progressively more complex data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or mathematical modeling projects Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Experience and demonstrated ability acquiring new technical/analytic skills and domain knowledge to support successful contribution to research and development projects is required.
• Experience using existing machine learning and analytic tools such as ScikitLearn, Weka, R, and Mathematica in either applied educational or professional projects is required.
• Experience writing code in either applied educational or professional projects using one or more of the following languages: Python, Scala, Java is required.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL) strongly preferred.
• Familiarity RESTful web services application programming interfaces preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with the demonstrated ability to explain complex technical concepts to a lay audience.
• Applied statistics or mathematical modeling experience preferred.
• Natural language processing experience particularly in the biological and medical domains preferred.
• Experience using distributed computing technologies (e.g. Akka, MapReduce, Cuda) preferred.
• Familiarity with graph, key value, and document data stores (e.g. Neo4j, Hadoop, MongoDB) preferred.
• Experience creating informative visualizations for complex, high dimensional data preferred.
• Experience with probabilistic graphical models, time series predictive models, Markov models preferred.

To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.

Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.

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