Senior Data Scientist II - Program Management and Data Governance

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JOB SUMMARY:

NORC at the University of Chicago is seeking a qualified Senior Data Scientist II to join the Statistics and Data Science Department to provide day-to-day program management, technical, and data governance expertise to a large-scale federal data access and record linkage program supporting NIH-funded researchers. This role provides leadership, coordination, and oversight for the delivery of secure data linkage services involving CMS and other federal datasets within a multi-contractor, multi-cloud environment.

The role involves partnering closely with technical staff, federal sponsors, external platform providers, and collaborating contractors to monitor progress against project milestones, resolve challenges, and ensure successful execution of data linkage activities, secure data provisioning, regulatory compliance, project reporting, and stakeholder engagement.

This position combines program leadership with substantive expertise in CMS data, record linkage methodologies, federal data governance, and data security. The successful candidate will coordinate activities across multiple functional teams responsible for data linkage, cloud platform operations, data use agreements, training and community engagement, output disclosure review, and data stewardship. The person in this role will serve as a key point of contact for government stakeholders and help ensure that project milestones, quality standards, security requirements, and client expectations are consistently met.

The Senior Data Scientist II hired into this role will also have opportunities to work on other projects and leverage their expertise in other key domains, such as data integration, AI/ML, scientific computing, survey statistics, business development, and collaborative research. Generally, this position supports the development of the strategy and vision for large data analysis projects and may involve managing both the activities and the work product of data analysts and/or data scientists.

Location
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Hybrid role based in either our Chicago Loop or Washington, DC office, with a minimum of six days per month in the office. Highly qualified remote candidates will be considered.

Qualified applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. We regret that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

DEPARTMENT:
Statistics and Data Science (SDS)

The Statistics and Data Science (SDS) department provides the scientific foundation required to advance NORC’s project portfolio. SDS delivers rigorous, innovative, and fit-for-purpose solutions along the project lifecycle. The department provides leadership for NORC’s approach on a broad range of approaches for study design and the analysis of primary and secondary data. SDS expertise includes artificial intelligence and machine learning; data integration;

disclosure avoidance; imputation; data linkage and statistical matching for combining multiple data sources; data quality assessment; efficient and reproducible workflow development; privacy-preserving methods; record linkage; small area estimation; statistical methods for survey sampling, weighting, estimation, and inference; and visualization.

The SDS department works closely with teams in NORC’s Health and Social, Economic, and Global Research divisions, Digital Services and Solutions group, and operational teams across NORC to ensure that statistical excellence and innovation remain central to the organization’s work. Many of NORC’s projects and proposals are led by substantive research departments that require…