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Health Data Scientist – Medical Evidence
AstraZenecaHealth Data Scientist generating evidence for better healthcare decision-making across the Nordics. Collaborating with teams and managing healthcare datasets to support insights.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPythonSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build and maintain integrated healthcare datasets across the Nordic countries
- Manage end-to-end data workflows from ingestion and transformation through harmonisation, linkage, documentation, and version control
- Ensure datasets are high quality, reproducible, and fit for evidence generation through robust data cleaning and quality assurance processes
- Conduct analyses that help answer important questions about patient populations, pathways, treatment patterns, outcomes, and healthcare utilisation
- Contribute to methodological design including derivations, algorithms, code lists, and analysis dataset specifications
- Produce clear technical documentation, visualisations, and reporting outputs to support transparency and interpretation of results
- Explore AI-assisted approaches to strengthen data quality checks and anomaly detection where relevant
- Ensure all work is carried out in line with applicable privacy, governance, ethical, and regulatory requirements
Requirements
What you’ll need- Degree in biostatistics, epidemiology, data science, health informatics, public health, computer science, or a related field
- Experience working with healthcare data, real-world data, or similar datasets in healthcare, life sciences, or public health
- Strong experience in data integration, data management, data cleaning, and transformation across multiple sources
- Analytical and statistical experience, including descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and survival analysis
- Proficiency in SQL, R, Python, and/or SAS
- Knowledge of healthcare coding systems such as ICD, ICD-O-3, SNOMED, and ATC
- Understanding of healthcare data privacy, governance, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements
- Fluent in English; Nordic language skills are an advantage
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health Data Scientist role in a leading company
- Support evidence generation and better decision-making across the Nordic region
- Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders
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Hard Skills & Tools
data integrationdata managementdata cleaningdata transformationdescriptive analysisregression analysissurvival analysisSQLRPython
Soft Skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsattention to detailproblem-solvingcollaboration