Data Scientist
A research opportunity is currently available with the Division of Field Studies and Engineering (DFSE), within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
NIOSH has the mandate to assure “every man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources.” This mandate requires multi-disciplinary teams of dedicated researchers working together. We are passionate about this mission. Projects will include collaboration with the National Firefighter Registry team and IT support for health science research. Activities will include advanced database design, data warehousing, and development of data management procedures to support health science research.
Under the guidance of a mentor, the selected participant will be involved in the following activities:
- Participating in the development of databases of worker health, safety, ergonomic, and industrial hygiene utilizing database normalization techniques
- Contributing to the development of data warehouses to support analytics, reporting, and data visualization efforts
- Data wrangling large data sources and investigating big data solutions
- Providing data visualization and statistical programming support for analyses to understand trends by industry, occupation, employer size, geographical area, cause, exposure, diagnoses, treatment, and worker characteristics
Anticipated Appointment Start Date: January 1, 2020
Qualifications
The qualified candidate should be currently pursuing or have received a bachelor's degree in one of the relevant fields. Degree must have been received within five years of the appointment start date.
Preferred skills:
- Understanding of database normalization, star-schema, data warehouse architecture, etc.
- Experience with MS SQL Server or other relational database
- Experience in statistical software (SAS and/or R preferred)
- Coursework and/or experience in machine-learning (Python, R preferred)
- Data Visualization using Tableau, SQL Server Reports, Power BI or similar tools
- Strong desire to provide health informatics and IT support to health science research exhibited by keeping current with new programming techniques/IT technologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
If you have questions, send an email to ORISE.CDC.NIOSH@orau.org. Please include the reference code for this opportunity (CDC-NIOSH-2019-0208) in your email.