Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
Job Description
Group
AbbVie Development Sciences (Dev Sci) is an integrated, cross-functional R&D organization that includes CMC (Process R&D, Drug Product Development and Analytical R&D), Biological Sciences (Preclinical Safety and Drug Metabolism, Pharmacokinetics & Bioanalysis) and Clinical Drug Supply Management functions responsible for the development of small molecule pharmaceuticals and therapeutic biologics from Discovery Candidate Selection through late stage clinical. The Data & Digital Strategy CORE team within Development Sciences defines and executes our data and digital strategy in collaboration with Dev Sci subject matter experts and Information Research (IR). The Data & Digital Strategy team partners cross-functionally to build and maintain a data and systems architecture that enables world-class knowledge management, data analytics and predictive modelling capabilities. We are looking for diverse candidates with a blend of product development, informatics and data systems experience who can help advance our data and digital capabilities
Position Overview
Since Digital Transformation of Development Sciences (DSDT) has been kicked off, we have followed a use case driven approach: prioritized by their importance for Dev Sci, current business processes are analyzed and new, more streamlined business processes are proposed. These new processes are typically characterized by more structured data collection and less manual data transcriptions combined with maximum automated data transfers into central data warehouses. In these data warehouses data are logically integrated with the goals to relieve our colleagues from tedious and error prone local manual data integrations as well as to provide high quality data for AI/ML applications. From a systems perspective, we have decided to create a federated infrastructure from scratch, initially growing with each use case. We have reached a state of “scaling” where new use cases benefit from our re-usable IT components and developed practices. Frequently, we adopt new use cases with unmet IT needs allowing us to gradually expand our capabilities through incorporation of new IT assets and technologies.
The DSDT IT Solution Engineer’s responsibilities include maintenance, monitoring, and further optimization of our federated infrastructure from an architectural perspective. He/she will closely collaborate with colleagues from Information Research (IR) on data transportation and integration challenges enabling frictionless provision of integrated data to the needs of Dev Sci colleagues and data scientists. When new use cases require
expansion of our capabilities the DSDT IT Solution Engineer will prepare scenarios to identify optimal solution spaces and lead their implementation.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies related to the storage, transfer, integration, visualization, and analysis of large and complex data sets.
- Maintain, monitor, and further optimize DSDT federated infrastructure from an architectural perspective
- Closely collaborate with colleagues from Information Research (IR) on data transportation and integration challenges
- Enable frictionless provision of integrated data to the needs of Dev Sci colleagues and data scientists
- Expand DSDT IT capabilities as demanded by new use cases with unmet needs (develop scenarios, lead implementation)
- May mentor/supervise a team of internal partners and external service providers and guide and evaluate the performance of those individuals; is accountable for the effective performance of the team/individuals.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of the pharmaceutical and healthcare business and utilize this knowledge in the rapid advancement of impactful solutions.
- Operate independently with guidance or oversight from a supervisor when needed.
- Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, and data security.
- Proactively seek out new information and technologies in the literature/public domain and incorporate into individual project(s) as well as the overall program
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 12 years of experience, Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10 years of experience, PhD and typically 4 years of experience.
- Combination of strong background in science (pharma, chemistry, biology, physics) and proven IT affinity
- Science:
- ability to understand the science behind DevSci data (CMC, Bio Sci)
- IT affinity (obtained during scientific education or work or other activities):
- Programming
- Extensive use of programming language(s), preferably: Python (other languages are also acceptable, but willingness to use/learn Python is a must) and Knime (or willingness to use/learn Knime)
- Experience with app / frontend development is a plus
- Experience with API development is a plus
- Databases
- Experience with querying relational databases (SQL)
- Experience in designing relational data models is a plus
- Experience with no-SQL (e.g. graph) is a plus
- other
- Familiarity with concepts such synchronous/asynchronous transfer
- Experience with backend technologies (Docker, Docker compose, Kubernetes etc.) is a plus
- Experience with parsing instrument data files is a plus
- Familiarity with concepts such as controlled vocabulary/taxonomy/ontology is a plus
- Collaboration & Communication
- Ability to work with a collaborative leadership style
- Team player: speak up / bring in own ideas + respectful challenge of status quo
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to listen to and understand business requirements and their translation into IT architecture in our federated DSDT ecosystem
- Ability to provide understandable educational material and documentation
- Ability to turn IT architecture considerations end-to-end into code incl. development/ execution of appropriate testing strategies
- Experience with managing external service providers is a plus
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- Leveling will be commensurate with experience.
- This opportunity has remote flexibility if located within the United States. If on-site, this position is to be located at AbbVie's North Chicago campus.
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
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