Data Scientist, Innovation Pathways, FaBA

1 month ago


Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia The University of Queensland Full time
About This Opportunity

The primary purpose of this position is to work with the Innovation Pathways Lead and Lead Data Scientist to deliver innovative, high-quality, and time-driven results. The Data Scientist will be responsible for sourcing and analysing data, generating business insights, creating value, and driving evidence-based decisions. These are key activities for the program in order to support the participating companies engaging with FaBA Innovation Pathways.

Key Responsibilities
  • Engineer, prototype, validate, and deploy statistical, machine learning models, and analytic solutions to solve challenging problems using both R and Python.
  • Develop and conduct complex statistical analysis plans for research studies, including the application of statistical analysis techniques such as regression, text mining, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, and choice modelling.
  • Build comprehensive data repositories through the integration of individual data sets, which include both primary and secondary data.
  • Engineer raw data into analysis-ready format and deploy statistical and machine learning models in the cloud to support visualisations and investigations.
  • Manage complex large-scale datasets, ensuring best-practice data governance and fulfilling ethical obligations.
  • Develop and deploy data visualisation tools and dashboard solutions, ensuring high standards of user/customer experience.
  • Provide statistical consulting, identify data needs, and work with stakeholders to identify requirements for customer insights, innovation, and commercialisation.
  • Contribute to project publications, including reports, scholarly, and industry manuscripts, and presentations.
About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you will have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

What We Offer
  • 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave.
  • 17% superannuation contributions.
  • 17.5% annual leave loading.
  • Access to flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight.
  • Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family.
  • UQ Study for Staff.
  • On-campus childcare options.
  • Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day).
  • Salary packaging options.


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