SeniorLead Data Scientist

Enterprise IT & Quality

Novo Nordisk Global Business Services(GBS)

Build end-to-end AI/ML solutions that shape commercial decisions at Novo Nordisk from forecasting and causal inference to GenAI assistants and agentic workflows. If you love taking models all the way to production and working shoulder-to-shoulder with the people who use them read on.

Your new role

Youll join the Commercial Data Science & AI team to develop and scale advanced analytics machine learning and AI across our commercial organisation. As a Senior/Lead Data Scientist youll build end-to-end AI/ML solutions from forecasting and econometrics to GenAI systems (RAG assistants agentic workflows) and take them all the way to production. Youll embed directly with domain experts as both advisor and hands-on builder working closely with commercial stakeholders and AI Engineers on platforms such as Databricks Snowflake and Azure.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translating commercial business questions into data science machine learning and model-production solutions
• Developing and deploying statistical econometric and machine-learning models for commercial use cases forecasting segmentation targeting propensity experimentation causal inference and commercial optimisation
• Building and shipping GenAI applications end-to-end RAG solutions GenAI assistants and agentic or workflow-based automation
• Evaluating model performance with appropriate statistical ML and business metrics and explaining assumptions limitations uncertainty and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders
• Taking your work to production: version control reusable and tested code documentation and MLOps best practice including experiment tracking model registries and monitoring
• Collaborating with AI Engineers and platform teams where models are integrated into AI products or user-facing solutions
• Independently scoping complex commercial problems choosing appropriate methods and helping set best practice for commercial decision science and productionisation
• Leading technical projects and mentoring team members

Your new department

In Enterprise IT & Quality you will be part of a business area that drives impact across the full Novo Nordisk value chain. We strive to stay close to our stakeholders in the business to ensure we deliver on their needs helping reach millions of people living with serious chronic diseases. Our focus is on being at the forefront within our three areas; ensuring the highest quality for patients being a trusted tech leader and an environmentally responsible business.

Youll sit within Enterprise AI in a small end-to-end Commercial Data Science & AI team where scientists and engineers work side by side you own the modelling and youre never far from the engineering help that gets it live. Were cloud-native (Databricks Snowflake Azure) and value agility diverse thinking and continuous learning in a culture built on feedback honesty and fun.

Your skills & qualifications

Were looking for people with deep expertise in one or more of: statistics econometrics forecasting causal inference segmentation or applied/commercial ML; and/or model production and MLOps; and/or GenAI engineering LLM applications RAG and agents.

Youll bring:

• Several years experience developing deploying or supporting data science machine learning statistical or AI models on real commercial or business data
• Strong Python and SQL with good coding practice (Git documentation reusable and tested code) and a strong background in model validation interpretation uncertainty and business impact
• The ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and a genuine interest in solving commercial problems not only technical modelling ones
• An AI-native way of working comfortable with AI-assisted development tooling (Cursor Claude Code GitHub Copilot)
• An MSc PhD or equivalent practical experience in statistics econometrics data science mathematics computer science engineering or a related quantitative field

Depending on your strengths youll bring depth in several of:

• Practical MLOps CI/CD for models model registries and experiment tracking (e.g. MLflow) and model monitoring
• Hands-on GenAI LLM applications RAG (embeddings vector search retrieval and evaluation) prompt engineering and agentic/workflow-based solutions
• APIs and backend development testing and CI/CD
• Deploying models with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

It would be an advantage if you also bring some of:

• A track record of taking work to production whether classical models or AI applications and a solid understanding of production concerns: reliability monitoring versioning security access control and maintainability
• LLM evaluation prompt/version management guardrails and observability (e.g. LangFuse / LangSmith); monitoring quality latency reliability and cost of AI products
• Experience from pharma healthcare life sciences or commercial analytics and consumer behavior

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this we approach our work with determination constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us youre not just starting a job youre becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

At Novo Nordisk youll join a global healthcare company with a unique culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning career development and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.

Deadline

24 July 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk were not chasing quick fixes were creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years weve been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of whats possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives seek out bold ideas and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together were making healthcare more accessible treating and preventing diseases and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us you become part of something bigger a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.