Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cogstate is advancing the science of brain health through innovative cognitive assessments. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support their data strategy and analytics, ensuring data quality and delivering data-driven solutions for internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Understand sponsor data needs and be able to translate these requirements into necessary analytics
- Proactively specify algorithms, models, analyses, and output required to meet sponsor needs
- Draft business requirement documents and specifications
- Anticipate reporting and analytic needs to support sponsors
- Understand CDISC standards and clinical trial submission processes and be able to produce data transfers and trial documentations to these standard independently
- Confidence to present results and interpretations independently to sponsors
- Ability to explain complex data concepts in an easily understandable way
- Skilled at summarizing data in suscinct, effective presentations and executive summaries
- Independently manage numerous data analytic projects and deliverables concurrently
- Build, develop, and deploy data analytics, data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics
- Maintain reporting systems and dashboards
- Support the creation of data visualization tools
- Draft and implement Statistical Analysis Plans
- Monitoring of study data
- Data transformation, transposition, cleaning, curation and reprocessing in support of data transfers and delivery to sponsors
- Implementation of CDISC data standards including SDTM and ADaM datasets
- Interact with sponsors to resolve scientific queries and participate in study planning
- Write clinical study reports, analytic reports, and other scientific reports
- Contribute to data curation and aggregation. Provide requirements and documentation of data structure and needs to support data analytics
- Analyze and report on cognitive outcome measures and cognitive tests
- Develop and qc statistical and programming output while maintaining rigorous quality standards
- Interact with project management, statistics, data management, statistical programming, and site services teams internally to support scientific analysis and reporting and support data related questions
- Develop solutions to unique customer requests relating to topics such as stratification, inclusion, reliable change monitoring, data monitoring, normative data, and other cognitive testing applications
- Generate clinical study report summary tables, data listings, figures, and other output as specified in the statistical analysis plan or other scientific reporting specification
- Review and monitor cognitive data rater performance, data monitoring findings, custom programming/statistical analysis, normative data, z-scores and computations
- Analyze and interpret cognitive data from clinical trials and research studies
- Critically evaluate internal processes and scientific methodologies
- Contribute to the development of processes, technology, and infrastructure which support the functions of scientific services and related operations
- When acting as a QC programmer, work independently from source data and ensure a 100% match of all output
- Maintain an intimate knowledge of Cogstate’s data systems
- Provide requirements for development and commercialization of new technology
- Test new features and bug fixes as needed related to data analytics and reporting
Skills
- Degree in data science, computer science, mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, statistics or a related area
- 5-10 years of prior experience in industry or academic setting
- Experience with data analysis, statistics, and scientific writing and presentation
- Exceptional R expertise to run data analytics and advanced statistics
- Deep Python/Pyspark experience
- Predictive / ML modelling expertise
- Proven ability to successfully manage a full workload across multiple-projects independently
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Exceptional time and resource management
- Data analytics, requirements gathering, and specification skills
- Data presentation experience and skill
- Confidence to present
- PhD Strongly preferred
- MA/MS may be considered with additional experience and demonstrated proficiency
- Experience with cognition and/or neuropsychological testing
Benefits
- Remote Work Practices: Cogstate is a virtual first company. Cogstate employees can work from anywhere where Cogstate is registered to business within the United States, Australia, or the United Kingdom!
- Generous Paid Time-off: Cogstate employees receive 20 days of vacation leave, 10 days of personal leave and 10 paid public holidays.
- 401(k) Matching: As you invest in yourself and your future, Cogstate invests in you too: we match up to3% of your yearly salary in Cogstate’s 401k program.
- Health, Dental & Vision Coverage: We've invested in comprehensive health & dental insurance options with competitive company contributions to help when you need it most. We also offer free vision insurance for all full-time employees.
- Short-Term & Long Term Disability Life Insurance: 100% employer sponsored
- Pre-Tax Benefits: Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Learning & Development Opportunities: Cogstate offers a robust learning program from mentorships to assistance with programs to improve knowledge or obtain certifications in applicable areas of interest.
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