Job Description

To our tech center in Prague, we are looking for a Data Scientist, 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:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

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:

11/15/2024

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Requisition ID:R317896