Data Support Engineer – Statistical Programming Python or R

Salary: £42,000 – £54,000 per year

Data Support Engineer – Stata Programming Skills / Statistical programming Python or R. My client based in Colchester, Essex are looking for an Data Support Engineer for an initial fixed-term contract with possible permanent role and further extensions (You will be on my clients payroll paying £42,000 – £54,000pro-rata – please do not send in your CV if you are looking for a daily or annual salary of, this role would suit someone who is available now or at short notice). This role does also offer with the option of WFH for 2 to 3 days after the initial settling in period has commenced.

You must be/have:

• Experience of handling and manipulating large numeric datasets
• Experience of applying quantitative research methods using survey or administrative data
• Experience of statistical programming and review of high quality syntax/ code
• Stata programming skills
• Proven ability to use open source statistical programming software such as Python or R
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills

Duties include:

• Responding to user high level statistical queries relating to data analysis and data quality issues
• Advising and training users on feasibility and ethics of data analysis
• Developing user-oriented materials
• Running statistical disclosure checks on analytical outputs, and liaising with the senior staff and data owners over complicated cases. This will include reviewing code from several popular statistical software, and other forms of inferential and descriptive outputs.
• Appraisal of rerunning of code for reproducibility purposes and possible sharing of user-derived syntax relating to use of the data holdings and their analytical potential
• Trouble-shoot data quality issues

For further information please send in your CV.