DataScienceUnitProfessionalLead

**Description:** The incumbent is responsible for the professional leadership of research data management, biostatistics, big data, bioinformatics and health informatics activities at AHRI. The incumbent will work closely with the academic data science lead (an AHRI faculty member) to support AHRI’s strategic objectives and to provide data science expertise and leadership across the research cycle for scientific studies conducted at AHRI. **Overview of Duties:** * Professional leadership of research data management, biostatistics, AI & ML analytics, bioinformatics and health informatics activities at AHRI. * Providing data science expertise and leadership to AHRI investigators across the research cycle - from hypothesis generation, study design, proposal development, to study implementation and conduct, data analysis, dissemination of findings and curation. * Managing, supervision and mentoring the research data management, biostatistics, AI & ML analytics and health informatics teams. * Overall responsibility to enhance research data analysis and data quality at AHRI and the incorporation of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI agent support across the research cycle. **Minimum qualifications:** * PhD in Statistics, Data Science or related field, or MSc with equivalent research experience in medical research. **Minimum experience:** * Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a lead statistician, bioinformatician or data scientist in medical research. * At least five years’ experience in managing, supervising and mentoring of research staff. * Experience leading analyses of large and complex longitudinal datasets. * Proven ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams. * Excellent knowledge of statistical software or high-level programming language (e.g. R, Stata, Python, Julia). **Skills required:** * Effective project and people management skills. * Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload effectively. * Goo