Data Scientist, Computational Social Science Lab

Overview

Data Scientist, Computational Social Science Lab

University Overview

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The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

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Posted Job Title
Data Scientist, Computational Social Science Lab

Job Profile Title
Data Analyst Senior

Job Description Summary
The Computational Social Science Lab is an organization for the research initiatives of Duncan Watts, a PIK Professor affiliated with Wharton, SEAS, and Annenberg, which seeks novel, replicable insights into societally relevant problems by applying computational methods to large-scale data. Through an intensive research infrastructure, industry partnerships, and network of collaborators, the Lab aims to facilitate progress in computational social science and to establish Penn as a global leader and standard-setter in CSS.

Job Description

The Lab has been building an innovative data infrastructure with high-quality data surrounding phenomena of social importance from multiple providers. This infrastructure creates a complex data collection system as well as a validation component. The Lab needs to ensure secure but flexible access to the data in order to promote mass collaboration in an open-science format among research teams from academy and industry.

Reporting to the Lab's Managing Director, the Data Scientist will manage the ingestion and processing of data from external providers, implement data quality assurance procedures, manage relationships with Amazon's AWS and other external computing clusters, and supervise third party developers.

Duties:

-Clean, aggregate, and organize data from disparate sources and transfer it to the lab's data storage facilities

-Manage the ingestion of data from external providers and maintain data processing pipelines that ensure the delivery of clean and validated data within project timelines

-Design and implement effective processes for documenting datasets and code – Administer Watts-Lab AWS, GitHub, and similar external platforms

-Monitor the lab's AWS mTurk schedule and the cost dashboard – Supervise third party developers of the Center's data infrastructure

-Consult and collaborate with the research staff and external partnership developers to ensure data storage, security, and formatting needs are in place for each research group.

-Perform additional duties as assigned

Note: This position is contingent upon funding

Qualifications:

Required:

-Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields

-3-5 years of work experience in data management, data-intensive research projects, collaboration with software developers

-A subject matter expert in one or more technical areas: data architecture, data engineering within “big data” systems such as Hadoop and SQL

-Advanced working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, and familiarity with data architecture optimization in RDBMS

-Working knowledge of a range of AWS products and experience with cloud-related technologies such as S3, EC2, EMR, IAM policies, Athena, Glue, Spark -Experience with a range of object-oriented languages such as Python and R

-Strong organizational skills and an ability to manage multiple complex tasks with diverse audiences and varying deadlines

Preferred:

-Experience with assembling and processing natural language datasets

-Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming

Job Location – City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School
Wharton School

Pay Range
$74,476.00 – $162,146.00
Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, as well as internal and market factors and grade profile.

Affirmative Action Statement
Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

Special Requirements
Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

University Benefits

• Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts: Penn offers comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to protect you and your family's health and welfare. You can also use flexible spending accounts to pay for eligible health care and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
• Tuition: Take advantage of Penn's exceptional tuition benefits. You, your spouse, and your dependent children can get tuition assistance here at Penn. Your dependent children are also eligible for tuition assistance at other institutions.
• Retirement: Penn offers generous retirement plans to help you save for your future. Penn's Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans allow you to save for retirement on a pre-tax or Roth basis. Choose from a wide variety of investment options through TIAA and Vanguard.
• Time Away from Work: Penn provides you with a substantial amount of time away from work during the course of the year. This allows you to relax, take vacations, attend to personal affairs, recover from illness or injury, spend time with family—whatever your personal needs may be.
• Long-Term Care Insurance: In partnership with Genworth Financial, Penn offers faculty and staff (and your eligible family members) long-term care insurance to help you cover some of the costs of long-term care services received at home, in the community or in a nursing facility. If you apply when you're newly hired, you won't have to provide proof of good health or be subject to underwriting requirements. Eligible family members must always provide proof of good health and are subject to underwriting.
• Wellness and Work-life Resources: Penn is committed to supporting our faculty and staff as they balance the competing demands of work and personal life. That's why we offer a wide variety of programs and resources to help you care for your health, your family, and your work-life balance.
• Professional and Personal Development: Penn provides an array of resources to help you advance yourself personally and professionally.
• University Resources: As a member of the Penn community, you have access to a wide range of University resources as well as cultural and recreational activities. Take advantage of the University's libraries and athletic facilities, or visit our arboretum and art galleries. There's always something going on at Penn, whether it's a new exhibit at the Penn Museum, the latest music or theater presentation at the Annenberg Center, or the Penn Relays at Franklin Field to name just a few examples. As a member of the Penn community, you're right in the middle of the excitement—and you and your family can enjoy many of these activities for free.
• Discounts and Special Services: From arts and entertainment to transportation and mortgages, you'll find great deals for University faculty and staff. Not only do Penn arts and cultural centers and museums offer free and discounted admission and memberships to faculty and staff. You can also enjoy substantial savings on other goods and services such as new cars from Ford and General Motors, cellular phone service plans, movie tickets, and admission to theme parks.
• Flexible Work Hours: Flexible work options offer creative approaches for completing work while promoting balance between work and personal commitments. These approaches involve use of non-traditional work hours, locations, and/or job structures.
• Penn Home Ownership Services: Penn offers a forgivable loan for eligible employees interested in buying a home or currently residing in West Philadelphia, which can be used for closing costs or home improvements.
• Adoption Assistance: Penn will reimburse eligible employees on qualified expenses in connection with the legal adoption of an eligible child, such as travel or court fees, for up to two adoptions in your household.

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