Senior Data Scientist - R Programming

Contract Opportunity: Senior Data Scientist / R Developer (Biostatistics)

📍 Location: London based Office - FULLY REMOTE FROM EUROPE OR UK

🕒 Contract Duration: 6 months+

💼 Industry: Life Science & Biostatistics via Consultancy

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop professional quality R packages;
• Provide consultancy on Biostats model development and deployment best practices;
• Review and optimise code, integrate existing modelling code into packages;
• Design and implement end to end modelling and deployment process on Databricks;
• Support and collaborate with adjacent teams (e.g. products, IT) to integrate the modelling solution;
• Continually innovate with the team and the customer on using modern tooling to improve model development and deployment;

Ideal Experience:

• A background or work experience in biostatistics or a similar discipline;
• Strong R programming, and R package development;
• Statistical model deployment, and end-to-end MLOps is nice to have;
• Having worked extensively on cloud infrastructure, preferably Databricks and Azure;
• Shiny development is nice to have;
• Can work with customer stakeholders to understand business processes and workflows, and can design solutions to optimize processes via streamlining and automation;
• DevOps experience and familiarity with software release process;
• Familiar with agile delivery methods.

Apply now or email me on l.brand@thex4group.com