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Lead Data Scientist
Silver Spring, MD

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Job Description:

The Government Health and Safety Solutions Operation is seeking a Lead Data Scientist, contingent upon contract award, in the Silver Spring, MD area.

The Sentinel Contract supports the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) organization's long-term initiative to create a national electronic system for monitoring FDA-regulated medical product safety in alignment with FDA's mission to protect the public health. The contract supports strengthening the core capabilities of Sentinel as it evolves to meet emerging business needs and expands the FDA's capabilities of post-market surveillance of approved medical products.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

Specific roles & responsibilities for the Lead Data Scientist position include but not limited to the following:

* Key translator of science-to-technical requirements.
* Defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements.
* Writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: Typically requires minimum 6 years of experience with a Masters degree in epidemiology, public health, or relevant field. PhD in epidemiology, public health, or relevant field is preferable.

* Experience as data scientist for health outcomes studies.
* Knowledge and expertise in leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and nature language processing as part of data analysis.
* Expert knowledge of the drug development process and US regulatory requirements.
* Experience in analyzing biomedical, behavioral epidemiological data, or similar scientific literature, research findings and data.
* Utilize data visualization tools to show findings
* Evidence of successful management of pharmacoepidemiological, biomedical, social sciences, behavioral epidemiological projects related to conducting and supporting high quality observational studies capable of informing regulatory decision making.

Desired skills:

* Experience utilizing data extracted from electronic health records
* Demonstrated current and significant relationships with FDA executives
* FDA customer experience and knowledge of their organizational structure
* Experience with successful deliverables in other FDA-sponsored pharmacoepidemiology contracts involving analyses of longitudinal healthcare data

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 32,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $10.19 billion for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2018. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here .

Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to spam.leidos@leidos.com .

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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