Job Description

The role will assist Product Technical Leads in delivering the strategy for the Experiment Design and Execution (EDE) Product Line within Animal Health Research & Development IT. The role offers the chance to work on products that directly impact how lab-based research is conducted and accelerate innovative drugs to market. You will be comfortable collaborating with all levels of scientific and R&D IT EDE product team, to analyze and distil technical workflows from which to implement requirements. Success will be the acceptance and adoption of these new solutions by the scientists targeted for each release.

You must be able to empathize with our scientists' needs and be a passionate advocate for their perspectives through all phases of product development. Collaboration will be a key aspect of your role as you work closely with cross-functional teams, including researchers, data scientists and IT professionals. Together with an agile team, you will develop efficient and scalable data solutions for our R&D laboratories to capture assay data. Your bioscientific background and your expertise in data engineering and IT will play a critical role in accelerating processes and data flows and foster the discovery and development of new veterinary medicines.

Responsibilities

Design efficient end-to-end data workflows to support pharmaceutical and vaccine research

Support data capture, transformation, and analysis of R&D data (e.g. biochemical / biological assay data)

Provide day to day support function to the EDE Product Team, ensuring user success of developed solutions

Conduct user interviews/analyses and work with support teams to identify problems and document them

Work with IT and lab-based staff to proactively map these workflows and needs

Synthesize data, observations, and other research into insights to help inform product strategy and decisions

Author technical requirements, test scripts and user facing documentation

Work with offshore/remote teams and software vendors to implement requirements

Streamline workflows, reduce manual transcriptions, and enhance workflow efficiency

Develop data capture forms and ingestion pipelines to process information from diverse R&D data sources

Design meaningful and reusable data components, that can be applied across different projects and datasets

Enable data integration, interoperability, and discoverability through the application of FAIR principles

Requirements

Minimum Bachelor's in a field related to Biosciences

Minimum of 5 years' work experience, with demonstrated expertise in scientific IT solutions like Activity Base, Genedata, etc.

Strong analytical skills with a creative mindset

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Understanding of database systems, data modelling, and data warehouse concepts

Ability to quickly grasp new technological and scientific concepts

Ability to demonstrate curiosity and flexible thinking to get to the underlying issue and define the problem

Ability to demonstrate analytical problem-solving skills and the ability to work with varying levels of ambiguity across multiple projects concurrently

Strong written and verbal communications skills and the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and users

Ability to work in a team of multidisciplinary scientists and IT personnel, and operate effectively in a matrix environment; team player yet able to work independently

Experience providing ongoing operational support for scientific research applications

Experience in Data Warehouse and Data Lake storage architectures for scientific research data

Demonstrable knowledge of problems facing scientists working a drug discovery lab

Familiarity with cloud-based software and terms

Familiarity with agile software development processes

Our 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 program

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 program

Up-to-date laptop and iPhone 

Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, library, music corner 

Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more 

 
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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Measurement Analysis, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

03/6/2025

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Requisition ID:R337787