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As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.\n\nWe would prefer for you to have:\nThis is a hands-on role - so be excited to code!\n\nEnthusiastic about building on and learning new methods and ways to use real world data to change the practice of medicine\n\nDemonstrated ability to build long-term relationships with stakeholders, understand relevant scientific/business challenges at a deep level and translate into a programme of data science activities to deliver value to the business\n\nHands-on experience with EMR, disease registries, and/or insurance claims databases\n\nExperience with in clinical data standards, medical terminologies and controlled vocabularies used in healthcare data and ontologies (ICD9/10/SNOMED)\n\nExperience in supporting pharmacoepidemiology studies with proven track record of advancing approaches with statistics/machine learning/data science\n\nAbility to lead & handle multi-disciplinary data science projects\n\nProficient in SQL\n\nProficient in at least one of R, Python\n\n⠀\nAnnual base salary for this position ranges from 109,148.80 to 143,257.80.AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. 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