About the Role
The Senior Data Scientist position works out of our Austin, TX location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
Responsibilities
- Support and lead various data science projects to deliver commercial solutions for the Cardiac Rhythm Management organization.
- Work on complex problems in the field of life-saving implantable medical devices.
- Use machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, data mining, and visualization techniques to provide analytics solutions.
- Develop solutions to curate and analyze large quantities of medical data.
- Work on projects that provide solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
- Present solutions and insights in a concise and effective manner to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Develop, plan, coordinate, and direct data science projects of medium to advanced complexity and major scope.
- Manage multiple, often concurrent projects and meet expectations.
- Understand medical device business needs and articulate these needs to other stakeholders.
- Assure that data science projects effectively address businesses’ long and short-term business goals.
- Communicate data science results to internal and external audiences, including senior management.
- Prepare and present written and oral reports.
- Adjust presentation style and content to suit the audience.
- Interact well with diverse groups and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
- Listen to and understand others’ points of view and articulate tactfully and respectfully one’s own and others’ perspectives orally, in writing, and in presentations.
- Interface with senior management on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
- In-depth knowledge of contemporary machine learning, pattern recognition and data-mining techniques.
- Apply scientific knowledge on data modeling, data analytics, predictive algorithms, prescriptive algorithms and other data science principles to create concepts, develop prototypes, and generate insights from commercial data
- Analytical skills with a solid foundation in programming (R, SAS, Python, SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL) and data/database design
- Create dashboards and visualizations of commercial data using Power BI to identify trends and provide key business insights to leaders across different teams
- Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Master’s degree in quantitative discipline, such as computer science, engineering, data science, bioinformatics, statistics, mathematics, machine learning or related field.
- Proficient in data warehousing, data modeling, ETL and SQL
- Prior experience or working knowledge with one or more of the following tools and technologies: Spark, Clojure, Hive, Pig, Redshift
- Experience with big-data architecture, operating systems, and tools for big-data analytics
- Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relationships.
- Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
- Has broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.
Skills
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Statistical modeling
- Data mining
- Visualization techniques
- R
- SAS
- Python
- SQL
- NoSQL
- PostgreSQL
- Power BI
- Data warehousing
- Data modeling
- ETL
- Spark
- Clojure
- Hive
- Pig
- Redshift
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
- Master’s degree in quantitative discipline, such as computer science, engineering, data science, bioinformatics, statistics, mathematics, machine learning or related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $78,000.00 – $156,000.00
Benefits
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
About the Company
- At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
- Global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, focusing on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
