Data Scientist

  • Canary Wharf, East London
  • £44,825 per year
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 14 days ago
The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.We are currently looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our Scientific Data & Insight function in the Safety and Surveillance group.Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: supporting the Agency's mission to protect public health by appropriately identifying, assessing and managing the risks associated with medical products. In every aspect of this work, we harness the best science, technology, information and professional practice to protect patients in new and impactful ways.The successful candidate will have a MSc in Data Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science or a similar quantitative discipline or demonstrable equivalent professional experience
  • Proven experience analysing large, complex health datasets using R
  • Strong applied statistical and/or machine learning skills, with the ability to select and implement appropriate methods for health data and interpret results accurately
  • Excellent data wrangling and pipeline-building skills, ensuring outputs are reproducible, well-documented, and scalable

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