About the Opportunity 

How often are you given the opportunity to build something from the ground up, with an abundance of resources at your disposal; to be part of a team of people accomplished in diverse scientific and engineering disciplines, focused on using the best of what lies at the forefront of technology to address complex, real-world problems that have a positive impact on potentially millions of peoples' lives? This is that kind of opportunity.  

Now more than ever, improving the speed and reducing the cost of drug development is a top priority for the biopharma and healthcare industry. At Lokavant, we’re leveraging our unique dataset and advanced analytics to do just that. We are seeking a thoughtful, hands-on, and output-oriented manager of data science with an aptitude for or strong interest in clinical trial data to join the rapidly growing Data Science team. Working closely with other departments such as Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Commercial teams, you will use our one-of-a-kind trial dataset to build modern, tech-enabled trial delivery products, powered by your predictive models. Data Science is a key competency at Lokavant, so you will be instrumental in setting and executing upon the vision for Lokavant’s differentiation in the clinical research industry. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design, build, test and integrate your predictive models into our product offerings 
• Work with data, such as data cleaning, transformation, extraction, and loading (ETL), to prepare datasets for further analysis and modelling 
• Perform exploratory data analysis, evaluate datasets for business values, and produce easy-to-understand visualizations highlighting key insights 
• Develop tools to enable scalable practices across the growing Data Science team; such as model and query optimization, re-usable internal libraries, and process improvements
• Use a variety of machine learning techniques to solve product focused business problems.
• Take an active role in defining the development roadmap and deliverables for the Data Science team in an integrated agile product development process
• Coach and lead a team of data scientists and analysts, provide guiding and coaching while delivering data science enabled solutions
• Work in a small team setting partnering with engineers and scientists to derive the insights needed to support our products and product features, including informing our Commercial strategy
• Mentor and be mentored by colleagues of varied experience levels and subject matter areas 

Minimum Requirements 

• Ability to bring data science into action; for example, discover relevant research papers and implement the key ideas from the paper into working models 
• Experience with Bayesian models and applying statistical models for solving real world business problems
• High proficiency in Python and SQL
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Experience building data models, and a solid understanding of the “modern data stack”
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized, with effective multi-tasking and prioritization skills
• Ability to work as part of a collaborative cross-functional team in a fast-paced environment
• 3+ years of relevant experience in an analytical role involving data science and statistical modeling
• Master’s degree or above with strong academic performance in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent fields 

Preferred (Nice-to-have) Qualifications 

• Experience in the life sciences industry 
• Experience with healthcare data, ideally clinical/operational clinical trial data 
• Knowledge of clinical data standards (e.g. CDISC, FHIR, HL7, etc.) 
• Knowledge of e-clinical systems and technologies (e.g. EDC, CTMS, IRT, etc.) 
• Experience with Looker, Tableau or other BI visualization tools 

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000