Senior Scientist, Data Science Nonclinical Safety and Submissions

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Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments finding cures and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently seeking a Senior Scientist Data Science to join our Nonclinical Safety and Submissions (NCSS) team. This position will be located at our office in either Spring House PA or San Diego CA (La Jolla area). (No fully remote option available.)

Nonclinical Safety and Submissions (NCSS) Preclinical Sciences and Translational Safety (PSTS) is seeking a highly motivated Senior Scientist to deliver transformative big data capabilities that will drive efficiency holistic data interpretations and mechanistic insights to power the new discovery paradigm. NCSS is a team of toxicologists and nonclinical writers responsible for delivering on the PSTS portfolio (efficacy-to-safety Discovery through Post-Marketing) across all J&J modalities and therapeutic areas.

The Senior Scientist will develop data pipelines and tools to interrogate analyze and interpret multimodal safety data and enable integration and interpretation of study data meta-analyses and hypothesis generation as well as generation of mechanistically-founded adverse outcome pathways enabling on/off target assessments species comparison and prediction of human outcomes. The role requires a breadth of skills and knowledge to address key biological concerns and portfolio needs into meaningful data science questions and investigating those using relevant data analytics and visualization techniques. The candidate is intellectually curious and will thrive in a dynamic multidisciplinary and collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with NCSS stakeholders prioritize and implement NCSS data needs and use cases including making NCSS data FAIR in the context of relevant metadata.
• Partners across PSTS and DPDS (IT and Data Science) to assess the data and data product/tool landscape and supports development of product implementation roadmaps and action plans.
• Act as point of contact subject matter expert for broad user base within in NCSS and defined superuser.
• Manage implementation monitoring and user analytics for identified platforms.
• Works cross functionally to establish workflow to internalize NCSS data in real time and to integrate/connect NCSS data and metadata. Develop processes for data ingestion warehousing curation standardization and database management when needed. Deploy quality control measures to ensure accuracy and completeness of data.
• Aids in the design testing and validations of products/tools for NCSS data search interpretation reporting and communication to stakeholders; deploys relevant data transformations visualizations summaries and analytics.
• Partners with Data Science to develop and implement statistical and machine learning models applied to multimodal data from multiple sources.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in data science capable of assessing options and supporting development and implementation working closely with DPDS DSDH external innovation.
• Interprets and communicates data with an appropriate level of independence in report writing and PowerPoint presentations. Collaborates presents and communicates project-related deliverables and findings in multidisciplinary PSTS team meetings.

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD or a Masters degree in Biology or related field with programming and data science expertise is required
• Or a PhD or Masters degree in Computer Science Statistics Engineering Science Data Science or applicable quantitative field with experience in biology is required
• 2 years of Data Science experience (for a PhD) or 4 years (for Masters) in an industry or academic setting post-degree in positions of increasing responsibility is required
• Experience in Biology Biotechnology Immunology Pathology In Vitro Diagnostic or Health Care industries preferred
• Good knowledge of SAS required
• Proficiency in programming (e.g. Python R SQL Javascript) and experience with Cloud Platforms (e.g. GCP Azure AWS) required
• Skill in data visualization and dashboarding tools (e.g. Spotfire PowerBI R-Shiny) required
• Proficiency in healthcare informatics (SNOMED CPT HL7) preferred
• Proficiency in the use of statistical models and AI (e.g. multivariate linear regression cluster algorithms decision trees logistic regression Principal Component Analysis PCA machine learning supervised and unsupervised Bayesian Methods Neural Networks) preferred
• Knowledge of medical terminology and familiarity with biological research preferred

Key Competencies:

• Strong track record and ability to work independently
• Analytical mind-set intellectual curiosity eagerness for continuous learning and passion for translating data into applied solutions
• Excellent interpersonal skills required. Ability to work effectively within a diverse team of multidisciplinary scientists
• This position will be located in either Spring House PA or San Diego CA. and requires the ability to work across time zones with travel expected <10%. (No fully remote option available.)

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation external applicants please contact us via internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $105000 to $169050. The Company maintains highly competitive performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporations performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Companys discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical dental vision life insurance short- and long-term disability business accident insurance and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay including Floating Holidays up to 13 days per calendar year of Work Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

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