The University of Alabama is hiring a Data Scientist III to play a key role in applied research for water and environmental security. You will oversee data management and integration efforts across university, state, and federal partners, focusing on analyzing complex environmental datasets to address critical water security issues.
What You'll Do
- Oversee data management and integration efforts across the university, state, and federal agencies.
- Develop processes to extract, transform, and load data into common data repositories.
- Coordinate creating new databases, performing database backups and restores, user maintenance, and ensuring database performance.
- Provide guidance, training, and/or oversight of other Data Scientists.
- Analyze water, weather, climate, and environmental data to solve water security issues.
- Engage in activities from exploratory analysis to development and implementation of data workflows, visualization, and communication.
What We're Looking For
- A Bachelor's degree and four (4) years of data science or analytics experience; OR a master's degree and two (2) years of data science or analytics experience.
- Knowledge in a programming language or languages often applied to environmental datasets, such as R, Python, mySQL, MATLAB, JavaScript, or other GIScience.
Nice to Have
- A Master's degree or PhD in environmental science, economics, geography, psychology, or a related field working with large data sets.
- Experience developing scientific data management tools/processes for large volumes of data from sensors or continuous sources.
- Experience with Bayesian statistics and censored datasets.
- Experience managing and analyzing large, multi-dimensional datasets.
- Experience with both spatial and temporal statistics, including non-normally distributed data and analyses like regressions, t-tests, nonparametric tests, power analyses, multivariate and ordination techniques.
- Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world pros and cons.
Technical Stack
- R
- Python
- mySQL
- MATLAB
- JavaScript
- GIScience
Team & Environment
You will work closely with researchers across a range of disciplines at the GWSC, an applied research and operational center commissioned to respond to our nation’s need for water and environmental security insights.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: Minimum $74,200 - Midpoint $100,200 (Salaried E12).
Work Mode
This is a remote position.
The University of Alabama is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected basis.
