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Mayo Clinic Senior Data Scientist position

  • 1.  Mayo Clinic Senior Data Scientist position

    Posted 07-06-2017 10:59

    Mayo Clinic has an opening for an  exciting Senior Data Scientist role in Jacksonville, FL.  The individual will work closely with senior leadership and clinical staff to drive  strategic initiatives. The emphasis for this position will be on developing demand models, capacity management models, physician supply and demand studies, layout efficiency/optimization analyses, process simulation assessments, financial analysis, and strategic planning for outpatient practices of Mayo Clinic across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be proficient in predictive and prescriptive modeling/analytics including data mining, simulation and optimization, and specific expertise in computation, and coding models and algorithms. Experience with programming (R, Python, etc.), SQL and relational databases is required. The candidate should have excellent communication skills (oral & written).  

    Responsibilities:
    • Design experiments, create hypotheses, conduct statistical analyses and build models to drive insights and strategic recommendations
    • Apply advanced statistical and optimization modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on multiple real time decision systems
    • Models and frames business scenarios that are meaningful and which impact on critical business processes and/or decisions
    • Lead discovery processes with Institute stakeholders to identify the business requirements and the expected outcome
    • Develop innovative and effective approaches to solve client's analytics problems and communicates results and methodologies
    • Makes strategic recommendations on data collection, integration and retention requirements incorporating business requirements and knowledge of best practices.
    • Automating models and metrics that track performance
    • Integrate analytics with other disciplines to support initiatives, research, and project requirements
    • Communicate insights to key stakeholders, which include technical and non-technical audiences. Must be able to understand, interpret and convey technical information to others
    • Demonstrated project management skills, including working with a diverse team, managing budgets, milestones, and schedules.
    • Independently manages multiple medium or single institution scale projects of mild to moderate complexity through the entire project life cycle. Identifies, translates and applies best practices on assigned projects.
    • Provides mentoring to engineers and other junior data scientists as appropriate with some guidance from leadership.


    Qualifications: 
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    Master's degree in management, industrial engineering, statistics, economics systems engineering, operations research, or analytics required.
    Master's degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR Doctorate degree with 3 years of relevant experience
    • Experience in a similar role involving consulting, operations research, statistical modeling, operations analysis, data analytics workflow analysis, staffing analysis, process engineering
    • Experience using advanced engineering techniques, including operational research, queuing analysis, theory of constraints and simulation
    • Expected level of experience in software programming using OR packages, simulation, R, Python or SAS, and other data mining tools

     Mayo Clinic provides the highest quality patient care by placing the needs of the patient first. We are the largest integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice in the world with approximately 60,000 employees working in a unique environment that brings together the best in patient care, groundbreaking research and innovative medical education. We offer a highly competitive compensation package, which includes exceptional benefits, and have been recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of the top 100 "Best Companies to Work For".

    Site Description: Jacksonville is the largest city in area in the continental United States. A beautiful coastal Florida city that features excellent year-round climate, over 20 miles of beaches and outstanding outdoor recreational, cultural and family-oriented amenities. The "River City by the Sea" has an excellent school system, reasonable cost of living and a thriving business environment. Medical professionals and patients are drawn to Jacksonville by an extraordinary network of high-profile healthcare facilities. Jacksonville continues to grow as more people relocate from all over the U.S. and abroad, to see what the great River City has to offer!

    If interested, apply for this position Senior Data Scientist Job Or, browse Mayo Clinic jobs for posting number 85312BR .  In case of questions, contact Tarun Mohan Lal at mohanlal.tarun@mayo.edu

     



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    Tarun Mohan Lal
    Principal, Practice Redesign and Analytics
    Mayo Clinic
    Rochester MN
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