SAVANA (www.savanamed.com) is an award-winning, international medical company aiming to accelerate health science by putting into the hands of healthcare providers the power to unlock all of the clinical value embedded within existing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) with Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. Always ensuring maximum privacy and security.
Founded in 2014, Savana is an international medical company that has developed a scientific methodology that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unlock all the clinical value embedded within Electronic Health Records' free-text (EHRs). With the largest AI-enabled, multi-language, multi-center research network in the world, Savana generates customized descriptive and predictive, High-quality Deep Real World Evidence research studies. Engineered by doctors for doctors, the company is built following the highest privacy-by-design standards.
Savana operantes in more than 160 hospitals, 5 languages, 15 countries and has already improved more than 6 clinical practices with more than 100 employees from 16 nationalities. It constitutes a clinical research ecosystem that aims to advance personalized and precision medicine worldwide.
Junior Quality Data Scientist at Savana
Savana is looking for a Junior Quality Data Scientist to play a key and exciting role in our fast-growing company, serving Spanish, English, German and French speaking markets. Based remontly in Spain, he/she will participate on the challenging project of expanding Savana worldwide as well as serving our home market, Spain.
Role Overview:
Quality Data Scientists are a key component of Savana’s Data Analytics Pipeline, bridging the gap between core technology and science teams. Their role is to provide the necessary support to evaluate cNLP output, perform clinical quality assessment of product databases and lead the annotation project pipeline.
Major Accountabilities where this role is involved:
- Data cleansing, wrangling/munging from raw data to analysis-ready data formats.
- Development of analytic strategies/pipelines to improve and maintain clinical data analysis pipelines and workflows.
- Performance of statistical analysis, application of different statistical methods ranging from descriptive to inferential. Presentation of results using data visualization techniques.
- Development of data analysis pipelines to evaluate the quality of Savana Databases qualitatively and quantitatively.
- Development of the necessary software and analysis pipelines to launch both internal and and external annotation projects.
- Development of adequate performance metric calculation strategies for annotated NLP outputs.
- Communication of analysis results to different audiences (internal staff, reports to clients, etc).
Information Security Management System Responsibilities:
- Ensure familiarity with and adherence to the organization's information security policies and procedures.
- Participate in regular information security training sessions to stay updated on potential threats and necessary security measures.
- Promptly report any security incidents or vulnerabilities to the designated function within the organization.
- Maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information by following best practices for data handling and protection; including using strong passwords, encrypting sensitive data, regularly updating software, and promptly reporting any security incidents.
Quality Management System Responsibilities:
- Adhere to Savana’s Quality Management System (QMS) policies, procedures, and applicable laws and regulations.
- Participate in and complete assigned training activities.
- Identify and report any deviations from controlled processes or regulations.
- Work closely with the Quality Team to resolve Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), deviations, and audit findings as deemed applicable.
- Contribute to the maintenance and review of Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) and Application Manuals (AMs) related to team activities as applicable.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications required:
- University degree in a strong quantitative field (mathematics, engineering, statistics, computer science) or university degree in biomedical field (medicine, biology, pharmacy) with a master’s degree or PhD with strong quantitative component (bioinformatics, epidemiology, etc).
- Postgraduate degree in the field of Data Analytics/Machine Learning or 2 years of equivalent professional experience is a plus.
- Proven programming and data engineering skills in Python, SQL and R. Parallel computing skills (e.g. PySpark) is a plus. Familiarity with IDE environtments (Amazon Sagemaker, RStudio).
- English: professional working proficiency.
- ≥2 years of previous experience in a similar role.
- Experience with healthcare data is a plus
If you are practical, experienced, proactive, independent, articulate, passionate about facilitating the digital transformation of healthcare, fascinated by Artificial Intelligence, the future of medicine and determined to solve healthcare's biggest problems. You are a Savaner. Join us!
We offer:
- Work with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, computer engineers, computational linguists, mathematicians, designers, medical Natural Language Processing expert programmers and other disciplines. We are a team of professionals with a common goal: to blend the knowledge of all of us to seek excellence in our purpose. Coming from very different disciplines, we want everyone to learn from everyone, creating a unique entity that moves towards the transformation of health through Artificial Intelligence.
- An opportunity to provoke a positive impact. We seek to improve health on the planet through technology and to help people and health institutions. Our employees and collaborators strive to provide our users with the necessary tools and support to achieve a more accessible and egalitarian global health. We care about our environment and we are willing to improve it.
- An environment to express yourself as you are and enjoy what you know. We defend individuality to form a richer and more plural "ecosystem". Be yourself and tell us what you have learned and how could we use it together to help us achieve our purpose. If you like what you do, we like to work with you.
- Competitive salary conditions, flexible culture and a development framework to growth your career. People are our main asset, so we invest in training and development and recognize and compensate for achievements and valuable work. We trust in the talent and commitment of people and focus on objectives and results, so we are flexible in our way of working, providing a framework to reconcile our personal and professional lives.
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Medsavana S.L. (“Medsavana”) will process the personal data you provide to us during the selection process (the “Candidate’s Personal Data”) in order to manage your curriculum data and the selection process you are applying to. You can exercise the rights of access, rectification or erasure, restriction of processing, objection, portability, and to object automated individual decisions at the registered office of the company indicated or in the email [email protected]. For more information, please refer to the privacy policy section on our webpage: https://www.savanamed.com/es/curriculum/