# Senior Data Scientist

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands, England; Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England; Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England; London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 41,983 - 52,113 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Data science is a broad and fast-moving field spanning maths, statistics, software engineering and communications. As a Senior Data Scientist at UK Health Security Agency, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team, using data and analytics to inform and achieve organisational goals. You will be responsible for exploring and visualising data, making recommendations to address complex problems, and informing strategic and operational decision making.

The Health Protection Information, Systems and Data team exists to enable high-quality, reliable, and accessible epidemiology and health protection data to support operational decision-making and analytical insight across the agency. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work independently and have a good understanding of a range of topics, including data science techniques, delivery methods and stages, tools and technologies.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop complex solutions using a range of data science techniques, whilst understanding any ethical considerations

- Understand the role and benefits of data science within the organisation

- Support capability building within the organisation

- Collaborate with others to develop data science solutions and outputs supporting the organisation

- Prepare and manipulate data, and perform complex analytics

- Present and communicate effectively

- Build reproducible analytical pipelines/applications that support epidemiological analysis and operational delivery of health protection activities

- Deploy and monitor applications and pipelines using OpenShift and Airflow

- Write documentation which supports collaborative working

- Engage with stakeholders across the agency to develop project requirements and ensure products meet user needs

Technical Expectations:

- Act as a technical subject matter expert on data science applications across UKHSA

- Support the implementation of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP)

- Act as an ambassador on data science within UKHSA and across the health sector

Professional Development:

- Pursue a programme of continuous professional development

- Identify, discuss and action own professional performance and training/development needs with line manager

- Participate in all mandatory training as required

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Git
- machine learning
- predictive analytics
- data visualisation
- statistical testing
- data engineering
- data manipulation
- data science

### Nice to have
- public health
- healthcare intelligence
- epidemiology
- data science innovation

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