Data Science Analyst

Data Science Analyst 2

Job

Location:

Augusta University

Full Time

The Department of AI & Health seeks an experienced Data Scientist 2 to join our research unit and provide technical leadership in advancing our computational health research capabilities. This mid‑level position combines hands‑on data science expertise with team leadership responsibilities, playing a pivotal role in establishing our department as a leader in AI‑driven health research. You will lead complex research projects involving medical imaging, electronic health records, genomics, and real‑time patient monitoring data while mentoring team members and contributing to our growing portfolio of high‑impact research in predictive diagnostics, personalized medicine, and clinical decision support systems.

Your leadership will directly enable grant acquisition, accelerate publication output in top‑tier journals, attract doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, and establish valuable partnerships with clinical departments and external collaborators seeking robust computational capabilities.

The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Application Development and System Design

Utilizes a solid understanding of fundamental design concepts during all stages within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Shared responsibility with team lead for the Design stage within the SDLC. Shared responsibility with junior developers for the following stages:
Construction, Testing, Debugging, and Deployment. Analyzes and identifies solution‑wide testing requirements. Investigates systematic and operational issues and identifies potential solutions. Flexibility with both Sys Ops and Dev Ops opportunities. Leverages advanced knowledge of Microsoft, open‑source, and web standard technologies such as ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, C#, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and T‑SQL to design and develop technical solutions to new and existing problems with varying scale and complexity utilizing fundamental design concepts and department standards to support work at the intersection of longitudinal machine learning, multi‑modal analysis, clinical informatics, and population health.

Application Implementation and Maintenance

Develops and maintains applications and databases by working with the team lead in evaluating client needs, analyzing requirements, and developing software systems across multiple projects. Arranges project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements. Prepares workflow documents using knowledge of client capabilities, subject matter, development technologies, and logic. Confirms program operation, integrity, consistency, and standards compliance with each platform necessitated by the client.

Communication

Identifies and transcribes client requirements and requests using interpersonal skills and ability to translate to all technical or non‑technical audiences. Provides design and requirements for user guide documentation and validates its content. Oversight of customer service tasks such as user training, user queries, operational problems, and system problems. Enhance staff accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions, answering technical and procedural questions, teaching improved processes, and conveying general accessibility.

Supervision

Serves as team lead to junior application developers.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Data Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field with three years related experience.

Prior involvement in healthcare, academic operations, or public sector analytics.

Familiarity with EHR systems (Epic, Encompass) or academic admissions systems (AMCAS).

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Detail‑oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software/databases.

Shift: Days/M‑F (work outside of normal business hours will likely be required of an employee in an exempt level position)

Pay Band: B11

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