À propos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. They are seeking a Data Scientist to support the Human Research Programs at the Johnson Space Center, focusing on data extraction and processing to enhance human performance in space exploration. The role involves ensuring data compliance with FAIR principles and contributing to the development of NASA’s Life Sciences Portal.
Responsibilities : • Integrate information from multiple data sources, solving common transformation problems, and resolving data cleansing and quality issues • Verify quality control and quality assurance of data during data extraction and manipulation • Maintain data dictionaries to document relational databases and extracted data • Work closely with archivists and database administrators to identify data issues and solutions • Develop scripts and workflows to create analyzable datasets, tables, listings, and figures; create reports, visualizations, and interactive dashboards • Proficiency working within Unix/Linux shell environments; ability to navigate, query, and manipulate files using command-line tools (e.g., bash, awk, sed) and scripting languages such as Python. • Experience transforming, normalizing, and restructuring heterogeneous or poorly formatted data into clean, structured datasets suitable for analysis. • Demonstrated ability to aggregate, summarize, and evaluate datasets through reproducible data workflows and scripting. • Skilled in parsing, validating, and converting data across formats (e.g., CSV, JSON, XML) and implementing data quality checks. • Ability to design efficient data pipelines for ingestion, cleaning, transformation, and documentation of complex datasets. • Familiarity with version control, metadata standards, and reproducible research practices to ensure traceable and auditable data management. • Understand, create, and modify SQL queries as needed to find, combine, and extract data from existing relational databases • Ability to identify and appropriately handle Human Subjects Research data, implement required security, access controls, and data protection measures in compliance with NASA and broader federal regulatory standards. • Maintain current CITI Human Subjects Research - Biomedical Research certification • Maintain confidentiality of all medical and personal information to which access has been granted • Provide weekly status reports of work activities to team leader • Other duties as assigned
Qualifications : Required : • Bachelor’s degree in biological, bioinformatics, computational biology or related field with less than 2 years of relevant experience. • Demonstrated experience in data wrangling including extracting and transforming different types of data files (csv, xlsx, pdf, doc, DICOM, etc.) into analyzable data using reproducible coding and scripting techniques. • The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. • Experience working with human data • Experience with common data manipulation software such as shell tools, R or Python • Understand database design and create processes for extracting and auditing data • Experience manipulating large datasets and working with raw, untidy data • Experience with data wrangling and harmonization across a variety of data file types and formats • Familiarity with enterprise vocabulary standards and how to use them for data integration and harmonization • Experience developing data visualizations • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite products • Effective planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills • Ability to work effectively both in small teams and independently • Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary setting • Ability to excel in fast-paced environments and set priorities appropriately • Highly developed organizational skills and attention to details • Excellent oral and written communication skills. • Ability to communicate effectively with project managers, project leaders, principal investigators, customers, and colleagues is essential.
Preferred : • Master’s degree in Data Science • Knowledge of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles • Experience working with relational databases or digital repositories • Experience with data formatting, cataloging, and storage • Experience extracting, manipulating, and analyzing data in cloud-based environments • Experience with data extraction and manipulation using AWS tools • Knowledge of regulatory and legislative requirements related to PII and data privacy laws • Proficient in using SQL to find, combine, and extract data from relational databases • Comfortable utilizing Unix or Windows shell tools and operating within a terminal interface
Company :
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Reston, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
Compétences linguistiques
- English
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