Data Scientist - Biochemistry

Job Description

To our tech hub in Prague, we are looking for a Data Engineer – Biochemistry for biological and chemical research data.

Would you like to experience working in one of the biggest multinationals in the pharmaceutical industry? Did you always want to work in a company where innovation is of high importance, and your work can have a real impact? Are you ready to Invent, Impact, Inspire? We would like to meet you! 

We have an exciting new job opportunity in our R&D IT department at our Global Technology Center in Prague. This role will be dedicated to the development and application of data engineering and data science techniques in R&D.

You will join a professional and dynamic team with the right mindset. In this position, the successful candidate will report to the R&D Informatics product-line lead by working with our Drug and vaccine Discovery teams driving and implementing solutions to accelerate research and pharmaceutical development projects. In addition to working alongside a world-class team of scientists in driving R&D activities, the Data Engineer will also collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the company’s R&D functions throughout various phases of drug and vaccine development. Responsible for cleaning, analyzing and interpreting chemical and biological data, analyzing, and testing virtual screening data.

Responsibilities 

• Develops and constructs data products and services and integrates them into used systems and business processes 

• Accesses, cleans, prepares the data, ensuring it can be reused as needed' 

• Designs, builds, and maintains data pipeline architecture - ingest, process, and deliver data to stakeholders 

• Batch processes collected data, formats data in an optimized way to bring it analyze-ready 

• Understands the customer/stakeholder’s business needs/priorities and helps building solutions that support our business goals 

• Will be working in a multi-disciplinary team with focus on bio- and cheminformatics projects, in this team you will be accountable for data engineering and sometimes data science parts 

• Collaborates and works with other data engineers and designs, develops and maintains data pipelines to extract data from a variety of sources and populate data lake and data warehouse 

• Understand available AI/ML models, train and finetune the models on R&D data in animal health 

• Conduct AI/ML feasibility and proof of concept studies focused on animal health data  

• Includes specializations within domains, such as R&D with focus on Biology and Chemistry

Qualifications  

• Academic level – e.g., graduated bachelor’s or master’s degree in one of the STEM fields ideally applied on Biochemistry. Ideally with some experience in Life Science 

• Strong programming skills in Python 

• Experience with data storage and processing technologies (e.g., SQL, ETL jobs, DataBricks, NoSQL) 

• Experience with GitHub or similar tools for collaborative software development 

• Effective at working with business partners to understand their needs to translate them into clear requirements.  

• Fluent in English; Good communication and coordination skills to align and manage activities, ideally with agile methodologies.  

• Experience with DevSecOps practices, such as continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), containerization (e.g., Docker), version control systems (e.g., Git) 

• Domain knowledge Biology and/or Chemistry 

• Experience with Chem-/Bioinformatics tech stack (e.g., Rdkit, sklearn, Jupyter, R, Conda, Nextflow)  

• Familiarity with NLP and AI technics is a plus 

• Experience with public cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (AWS is preferred) is a plus

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral programme

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programmes

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

Ready to take up the challenge? Apply now!
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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

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Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Biochemistry, Business Intelligence (BI), Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Drug Discovery Process, Genomics, Machine Learning, Software Development, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Project Management

Preferred Skills:

Chemical Research, Research and Development Operations

Job Posting End Date:

11/5/2024

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