Job Description:
This individual will work closely with leaders across the Company including Computational Biology, Clinical Development Sciences, Value Based Medicine, Market Access, Commercial Decision Support, Process Analytics, HR Analytics, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Research Therapeutic Areas, Medical Insights and Competitive Intelligence. The data scientist will identify opportunities and extract value from internal and external datasets on focused analytical problems aligned to direct business imperatives. Such business imperatives include extracting insights from our world-leading Multiple Sclerosis data, changing the management of disease from episodic to continuous using sensors in commodity devices through data-driven approaches and mining information across multiple public and proprietary data sources for real world evidence of therapies. He/she will provide the leadership, intellectual impetus and sense of urgency for analytical initiatives that may encompass the full scope of data and analysis lifecycle management working with other Data Scientists, Information Scientists, Architects, Developers and Business Analysts in this newly formed group.
Key accountability:
1. Work with stakeholders to understand business questions and gather data necessary to answer those questions
2. Perform data aggregation, cleansing, analysis and interpretation
3. Data visualization, reporting, and communication
4. Participate in innovation experiments and data jams for business analytics, business intelligence and data visualization and reporting
Location
US-MA-Cambridge
Job Category
IT
Requisition Number
25164BR
Qualifications
Deep experience in one of more of the following: Exploratory Data Analysis techniques, Machine Learning (Decision trees, Neural networks, SVM, Clustering, Classification, Bayesian networks), Model validation techniques, rules engines, and graph analytics techniques
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following: Bash, HTML5, PERL, Processing, Python and R
• Proficiency with several of the following: distributed and high performance computing, data visualization, data engineering, pipelining and wrangling tools
• Burning desire to extract value from data and information, whether internal or external
• Passion for critically applying mathematical approaches to imperfect data
• Experience in bioinformatics, medical informatics, clinical informatics or other forms of informatics highly desired
• Knowledge of data management approaches e.g. relational databases, object stores, column stores, triple stores, graph stores, document stores desired
• Experience working in cross-functional groups at the intersection of data analytics and computational technologies desired
Education
BA/BSc required, MS or PhD preferred in information sciences, computer sciences, informatics or discipline requiring intense data analysis
About Biogen Idec
Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) is a biotechnology leader that discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies to improve the lives of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, hematologic conditions and autoimmune diseases. Patients worldwide benefit every day from our medicines for multiple sclerosis (MS) and hemophilia.
Founded in 1978, Biogen is the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company. Our development pipeline is focused on areas of high unmet medical need, as we pursue new therapies for patients suffering from diseases with few or no treatment options. These include programs for secondary progressive MS, Alzheimer’s Disease, spinal muscular atrophy, lupus and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), amongst others.
With approximately 7,500 people worldwide, Biogen is truly a global organization. We are headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is home to our research operations. Our international operations are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Please be advised that all legitimate correspondence from a Biogen employee will come from "@biogen.com" or "@biogenidec.com" email accounts.
Additional Info:
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This individual will work closely with leaders across the Company including Computational Biology, Clinical Development Sciences, Value Based Medicine, Market Access, Commercial Decision Support, Process Analytics, HR Analytics, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Research Therapeutic Areas, Medical Insights and Competitive Intelligence. The data scientist will identify opportunities and extract value from internal and external datasets on focused analytical problems aligned to direct business imperatives. Such business imperatives include extracting insights from our world-leading Multiple Sclerosis data, changing the management of disease from episodic to continuous using sensors in commodity devices through data-driven approaches and mining information across multiple public and proprietary data sources for real world evidence of therapies. He/she will provide the leadership, intellectual impetus and sense of urgency for analytical initiatives that may encompass the full scope of data and analysis lifecycle management working with other Data Scientists, Information Scientists, Architects, Developers and Business Analysts in this newly formed group.
Key accountability:
1. Work with stakeholders to understand business questions and gather data necessary to answer those questions
2. Perform data aggregation, cleansing, analysis and interpretation
3. Data visualization, reporting, and communication
4. Participate in innovation experiments and data jams for business analytics, business intelligence and data visualization and reporting
Location
US-MA-Cambridge
Job Category
IT
Requisition Number
25164BR
Qualifications
Deep experience in one of more of the following: Exploratory Data Analysis techniques, Machine Learning (Decision trees, Neural networks, SVM, Clustering, Classification, Bayesian networks), Model validation techniques, rules engines, and graph analytics techniques
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following: Bash, HTML5, PERL, Processing, Python and R
• Proficiency with several of the following: distributed and high performance computing, data visualization, data engineering, pipelining and wrangling tools
• Burning desire to extract value from data and information, whether internal or external
• Passion for critically applying mathematical approaches to imperfect data
• Experience in bioinformatics, medical informatics, clinical informatics or other forms of informatics highly desired
• Knowledge of data management approaches e.g. relational databases, object stores, column stores, triple stores, graph stores, document stores desired
• Experience working in cross-functional groups at the intersection of data analytics and computational technologies desired
Education
BA/BSc required, MS or PhD preferred in information sciences, computer sciences, informatics or discipline requiring intense data analysis
About Biogen Idec
Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) is a biotechnology leader that discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies to improve the lives of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, hematologic conditions and autoimmune diseases. Patients worldwide benefit every day from our medicines for multiple sclerosis (MS) and hemophilia.
Founded in 1978, Biogen is the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company. Our development pipeline is focused on areas of high unmet medical need, as we pursue new therapies for patients suffering from diseases with few or no treatment options. These include programs for secondary progressive MS, Alzheimer’s Disease, spinal muscular atrophy, lupus and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), amongst others.
With approximately 7,500 people worldwide, Biogen is truly a global organization. We are headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is home to our research operations. Our international operations are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Please be advised that all legitimate correspondence from a Biogen employee will come from "@biogen.com" or "@biogenidec.com" email accounts.
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