Description
Senior Data Scientist/Limerick, Ireland/12 Months Contract/53 to 66 EUR (Per Hour)
Senior Data Scientist required to join Johnson & Johnson on a 12 Months Contract in Limerick, Ireland.
The Company
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886.
Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Work closely with engineering, quality and IT teams to implement Business Intelligence and analytics solutions
- Gather, process, and analyze raw and often complex data from different sources using advanced statistical modelling techniques
- Work with external partners to deliver advanced analytics related projects
- Work with key stakeholders to clearly explain complex empirical results and support integration into business applications
- Drive project execution by defining and implementing common BI and analytics process and standard delivery measures
- Support business partners with ad-hoc analysis as needed
Qualifications and Experience
- Masters Degree in a Statistics, Math, Computer Science or related technical field with experience solving analytical problems using machine learning, statistics, and other empirical techniques OR a Ph.D. in a Statistics, Math, Computer Science, or related technical field required.
- Demonstrated applied experience in data analysis, statistical principles, data mining and algorithm development.
- Comfortable manipulating and analysing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources is required
- A strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data is required
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
- Familiarity with relational databases such as SQL is required
- Expert knowledge of at least one analysis tool is required (R, Python, Matlab, or SAS)
- Experience working with distributed computing tools a plus (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, etc.)
- Experience working with data visualisation tools preferred, (eg Qlik, Tableau)
Other critical competencies include:
- Strength in interdependent partnering and collaboration skills to build strong relationships with internal customers, suppliers and business partners.
- Change Agent with a high tolerance for ambiguity.
- Maintains integrity and trust within and across all organizations and relationships.
Non Technical Skills and Additional Details
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills
- Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision
- Quick learner, motivated self-starter
- Able to follow change management procedures and internal guidelines
- Accepts personal responsibility for meeting project and quality requirements
- Fluent in English (spoken and written)
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