Job Description
Shiny Developers are part of the Data Science practice that inherits high standards and consistency. The organization applies best in breed enterprise grade practices to ensure the performance and supportability of the applications, while keeping obsessed with user experience and best practices in data communication. We apply Shiny application for appropriate use cases at the right data maturity level, and make sure organizations get the most out of Shiny
Key Responsibilities
As a Data Scientist specialized in Shiny development, you will have these responsibilities:
• Become a trusted consultant for the customer, and go beyond a "developer" or "engineer" mindset in all engagements
• Advise customer on technical solutions to business problems, actively identifying gauging gaps in customer's capabilities, capacity to inform account approach
• Implement complex Shiny solutions and support end-to-end pipelines
• Challenge solution design and methodology with innovative ideas
• Apply Software development discipline and computational efficiency in project delivery
• Plan and estimate for delivery, support project management from the technical perspective
• Advocate for DevOps skills, disciplines and principles
• Ownership of at least parts of deliverables, including definition of success, implementation, quality control and presentation of output
• Main contributor to internal asset build (PoC, Assets)
Desired Experience & Qualification
A successful candidate will demonstrate these traits:
• Curious and inquisitive
• Thoughtful
• Consultative and business-minded
• Detail orientated
• Pragmatic approach to problem-solving
• Sense of responsibility and ownership
• Critical and constructive thinking
• Logical and methodical reasoning
• Communicate with clarity and purpose
And must have these skills:
• 3+ years of Shiny development focused data scientist
• Highly fluent in R and Shiny, proficiency in Python is desirable
• Highly confident in modular approach to development • Shiny app structure frameworks such as golem
• Various front end frameworks R packages, Fluent UI is a plus
• R package development
• Advanced Shiny topics, including profiling, testing, performance tuning and deployment patterns
• Daily use of git
• CI/CD for testing and app deployment
• Data visualization techniques
• Fluent in SQL for analysis; DBA experience is desirable
And nice to have these skills:
• HTML / CSS
• JavaScript (React.js or other frameworks)
• Information Theory
• Clinical trial data and use cases are desirable
• Cloud platforms, Azure is desirable
• Docker and other software development experience
• Data architecture knowledge
• API design and deployment
• Big data (e.g. Spark)
• NoSQL DB
Qualifications
• 3+ years of a dedicated Shiny developer role
• Right to work in the UK and/or EU
• Azure Data Science Associate - Certificate is desirable