Senior Health Data Scientist

DESCRIPTION

Eager to help the community receive better care through the adoption of advanced analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)? Excited to help healthcare organisations derive business and clinical value from data more effectively? Thrilled to be a part of Amazon who has been pioneering and shaping the world’s AI/ML technology for decades?
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are helping healthcare customers build analytic models on the AWS Cloud. We are applying predictive technology to large volumes of data and against a wide spectrum of problems. AWS Professional Services works together with AWS customers to address their business needs using AI solutions.
AWS Professional Services is a unique consulting team. We pride ourselves on being customer obsessed and highly focused on the AI enablement of our customers. If you have experience with AI, including building ML models, we’d like to have you join our team. You will get to work with an innovative company, with great teammates, and have a lot of fun helping our customers. A successful candidate will be a person who enjoys diving deep into data, doing analysis, discovering root causes, and designing long-term solutions.
Major responsibilities include:
• Assist customers by being able to deliver a ML project from beginning to end, including understanding the business need, aggregating data, exploring data, building & validating predictive models, and deploying completed models with concept-drift monitoring and retraining to deliver business impact to the organisation
• Use AWS AI services (e.g., Personalize), ML platforms (SageMaker), and frameworks (e.g., MXNet, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SparkML, scikit-learn) to help our customers build ML models
• Research and implement novel ML approaches, including hardware optimisations on platforms such as AWS Inferentia
• Work with our other Professional Services consultants (Data management, Security, DevOps) to analyse, extract, normalise, and label relevant data, and with our Professional Services engineers to operationalise customers’ models after they are prototyped
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organisationleaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. As such, this is a customer facing role in a hybrid delivery model. Project engagements include remote delivery methods and onsite engagement that will include travel to customer locations as needed.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
This is a customer-facing role and you will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.

A day in the life

About the hiring group

Job responsibilities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent professional or military experience
• Experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business, and lay healthcare audiences and giving data-driven yet simple presentations
. Experience in consulting, designing and leading a data science project end-to-end, managing a diverse and matrix team to deliver that project
• Experience with ML fields, e.g. natural language processing, computer vision, statistical learning theory
• Healthcare experience in predictive modeling, data science, and analysis, e.g. genomics, clinical trials, medical records, clinical decision support
• Experience in an ML engineer or data scientist role building and deploying ML models or hands on experience developing deep learning models
• Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, Java, C++ with documentation for reproducibility
• Experience handling terabyte size datasets, diving into data to discover hidden patterns, using data visualisation tools, writing SQL, and working with GPUs to develop models

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree or PhD in a highly quantitative field with healthcare applications (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.)
• Ability to develop strategic, baselined, data modeling processes; ability to accurately determine cause-and-effect relationships.
• Publications or presentations in recognised ML and clinical journals or conferences
• Deep technical skills, consulting experience, and business savvy to interface with all levels and disciplines within our customers’ organisation
• Demonstrable track record of dealing well with ambiguity, prioritising needs, and delivering results in a dynamic environment