Data Scientist

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a Data Scientist for our client in the Healthcare domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract position and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 18 Months Contract

Location: Oakland, CA

Role: Data Scientist

Primary Skills: Python

Role Description: The Data Scientist would need to have at least 2+ years of experience. For this role, you must have excellent communication skills, solid programming and problem-solving skills, and a solid grasp of statistics and/or Machine Learning.

Responsibilities and Duties:

- Understand business problems and suggest data and analytic solutions to support decision makers.

- Help develop and transform data sets using variety of programming languages.

- Develop and test analytic hypotheses using established methods.

- Create data visualizations that convey a clear story about what is observed in the data.

- Design, develop, and validate predictive and explanatory models using a wide variety of models.

- Communicate results to variety of audiences.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor s degree with evidence of quantitative aptitude.

- 2-4 years doing analysis, model building, causal inference.

- 2-4 years of experience programming in R, Python, or another programming language.

- 2-4 years of experience writing SQL queries to various databases.

Preferred Experience:

- 2-4 years of work experience is preferred.

- Master s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering or other quantitative field in preferred

- Analytic or operational experience and/or education in Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, or other relevant medicine topics is appreciated.

Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent.

Experience: Minimum 2+ years

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Recruiter Name: Rajiv Kumar

Recruiter Phone:

Equal Employment Opportunity

Minimum Education Required: Bachelor

Years of Experience Required: At Least 3 Years