Job Description

The Principal Data Scientist – Cloud Engineering Development will play a leading strategic role on company’s Advanced Research and Data Science team. This position will develop and maintain cutting-edge machine learning systems. In this role as a Principal Data Scientist you will push the boundaries of remote medical technology through optimization of cloud ecosystems and complex data integration. The ideal candidate has extensive data modeling, data engineering, database software development and database operation experience. This position is hands-on, highly technical, with a high sense of urgency for daily tasks and a calculated and strategic approach for long term success. The candidate will have a passion for data technologies and how they support big data, edge and core computing, and data science.

• Designs and implements data solutions for big data and machine learning platform integration within AWS
• Performs data migration and transformation
• Integrates applications with other corporate systems and with third party software
• Follows organizational practices in version control, software development and configuration management, including key performance indicators for the management of software development
• Mentors team members on technology and fostering a collaborative team environment
• Authors and reviews technical documentation regarding data solution infrastructure and algorithm design
• Maintains and refines a broad knowledge of relevant and appropriate new technologies, as well as champion technical innovation and influential decisions within all levels of the enterprise

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS EDUCATION:  B.S. degree in Computer Science or related discipline, M.S. or PhD Degree preferred RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 8+ years of job-related, hands-on experience, developing and documenting the design of applications with Python and C++ programming languages
• Experience with development, deployment and support of software applications in a regulated business environment
• 8+ years of development and administration experience managing large, multi-instance, distributed databases for machine learning applications
• Experience with Continuous Integration and DevOps tools, a plus

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Advanced SQL skills, advance programming skills (Python, C++, C#, Java)
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud computing services (IAM, EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation) for machine learning applications
• Familiar with digital signal processing and algorithm design
• Deep analytical skills, extensive capability to break down a problem and find the root cause, creative thinking and flexibility, considering new ways of thinking to solve a problem
• Desire to identify and leverage appropriate new technologies
• Hands-on experience with various database technologies including but not limited to SQL/ACID stores (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Progress, PostgreSQL), NoSQL/Key-Value/Wide-Column stores (Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Hadoop, Cassandra) and Document stores (MongoDB)

COMMUNICATION SKILLS (VERBAL/WRITTEN):

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal communication and presentation skills

MANAGEMENT/LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

• Technical leadership and mentoring skills