Data Scientist

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Full-Time Professional DOH - LIC, Long Island City, NY, US

7 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Company Overview: With an annual budget of $2.3 billion and more than 7,000 employees throughout the five boroughs, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) is one of the largest public health agencies in the world, serving 8 million New Yorkers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We're tackling a broad range of public health issues with innovative policies and programs and getting exceptional results, but our work is never finished.

The breadth of our innovative programs provides the widest range of choices for every member of our team.

With grant funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DOHMH is undertaking a new initiative that will meet critical infrastructure needs and make possible strategic investments that will have lasting effects on public health. Investments and improvements through this initiative will help modernize DOHMH’s foundational capabilities and data infrastructure, enabling it to partner in complex health and health care environments and, in turn, support better public health outcomes, including COVID-19.

This initiative supports larger efforts to rebalance investments in public health and more equitably serve communities and populations.

The Center for Population Health Data Science (CPHDS) — launched in October of 2023 — aims to catalyze critical data modernization work and enable the agency to make progress toward linking public health, healthcare, and social service for timely and effective public action. We are working toward making these data more accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected and actively used to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers.

We aim to strengthen agency wide data capabilities by empowering our workforce, enhancing intra‑ and inter‑agency data sharing, and using modern technology to yield trusted and integrated data and insights. A real‑time and comprehensive view of city needs is needed to enhance public health actions and improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

Job Description:

DOHMH has an opening for a Data Scientist
. The Data Scientist reports to the Director, Applied Data Science and Solutions and maintains software and integrations that power the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) including the Master Patient Index, and serves as a key liaison across agency IT, EDP developers, and leadership—ensuring secure access management, best‑practice adoption, and adherence to platform standards.

Duties:

• Provide data engineering and infrastructure configuration support for complex Python applications
• Aid migration of complex Python applications from on‑premise environments to Azure including transformation of applications to cloud native architecture
• Build and oversee automated data extraction, transfer, and load processes to support analytics databases
• Build resources to ingest, extract, or analyze data housed in a data lake environment
• Design, build, and document scalable hybrid technology architecture using both on‑premise and cloud resources on Azure
• Identify, explore, and help build emerging free, open source technologies
• Design, implement, test, deploy, update, and document statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models
• Propose and implement improvements to the DOHMH data science infrastructure and processes

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with Python version 3.x
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with SQL databases
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with mathematical, statistical, machine learning, or artificial intelligence models in Python
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience performing data science tasks using cloud‑based technologies
• 2+ years of experience building Python applications that leverage cloud‑based technologies such as docker or Azure Container Apps or Azure App Service
• 3+ years of Data Lake analytics platforms such as Azure…