Data Scientist

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🌐 United Kingdom, Ireland, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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ICON plc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ICON plc is a global provider of clinical, consulting, and commercial services across various sectors in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They offer a wide range of clinical solutions, including decentralised clinical trials, cardiac safety solutions, early clinical laboratories, and medical imaging. ICON also provides technology solutions that support drug development from early phases to post-marketing. Their therapeutic expertise spans cardiovascular, oncology, internal medicine, and more, with a strong focus on transformative therapies like cell and gene therapies and biosimilars. ICON is recognized as a leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO), regularly providing thought leadership and contributing to industry publications and events. Their services are tailored to optimize clinical trials, offer regulatory intelligence, and deliver real-world evidence through robust data analysis and patient-centric solutions.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the development of the strategy for Analytics, Reporting and Metrics building in line with the overall Business Information Services strategy • Leverage visualization tools and business intelligence platforms • Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes • Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy • Use Spotfire for analysis and review • Develop custom data models and algorithms for data sets • Provide specialist support for development, interpretation, and application of machine learning models • Apply analytical and statistical methods to solve use cases using various data sources and analytical tools • Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for using company data to drive business solutions • Liaise with, advise, and negotiate with customer groups on data modelling requirements and propose innovative solutions • Develop and implement capabilities to make routine requests more structured and efficient • Contribute to initiatives enabling faster and more effective data modelling, analysis, and provisioning • Ensure systems, code, and documentation are inspection ready

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field • Experience using Python and SQL to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets; R considered • Experience with cloud and data platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies would be advantageous • Experience of clinical data and domains, including Clinical Trials or the wider Pharmaceutical industry, preferable but not necessary • Knowledge of machine learning techniques including clustering, decision tree learning, and artificial neural networks • Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts including regression, properties of distributions, and statistical tests • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams • A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques • Legal right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways