Programmer Analyst, Paediatrics & Child Health -MC

Introduction:

The Outreach and Research Program of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities:

 Specific responsibilities include to:

• work as a member of the development team to meet project deadlines provided by the team-Lead or Manager

• self-learning of new tools and applying them to provide good solutions to meet project requirements

• collaborative as part of an agile team on leading-edge technologies

• get a thorough understanding of current processes and work on process automation and digitization

• collect, manipulate, pre-process and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources and present insights using different analysis and visualization tools

• prototype experimental solutions, particularly machine learning models

• support extraction and management, data wrangling, analysis, and interpretation of complicated, disparate datasets

• develop dashboards that provide reliable insights and visualization

• use machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze healthcare data; understand cohorts of patients, based on the combination of health conditions and demographics, and improve outcomes

   

Requirements:

You should have: 

• excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• experience presenting insights to technical and nontechnical colleagues.

• proficiency with any of the tools will be plus (Java, Android, R, STATA, Python, Power BI, VS Code)

• sound knowledge of developing machine learning models, including familiarity with techniques in clustering, classification, regression, optimization, recommendation, natural language processing, and others

• understanding of data and analytical frameworks in health care industry

• skills in data collection, management, analysis, and interpretation

• BI, DWH working knowledge will be an advantage

• ability to articulate research questions, form hypotheses, review and synthesize existing literature

• competency to work effectively with people at all levels in the organization

This is a close-ended position

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.

Disclaimer: 

The Aga Khan University is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment which is free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at AKU are based on business needs, job requirements and individual’s qualifications and experience, without regard to race, colour, caste or creed, national, social or ethnic origin, gender (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification). AKU does not discriminate among the job candidates on account of any of these characteristics.