Senior Data Scientist, Biomarker & Precision Medicine Analytics (On-Site, IL Based) at AbbVie AS


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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description

Purpose:

The selected candidate will join a team of data scientists and data engineers with a unique blend of scientific, technical, and machine-learning expertise who seek to:
  • Optimize the quality, efficiency, and depth of insight generation from clinical biomarker data to support faster data-driven decision-making and to empower Precision Medicine Scientists in the future strategic planning for our assets
  • Unleash the full potential of internal and external/real-world biomarker data sources by facilitating deep exploration and analysis of complex biomarker data via fit-for-purpose data analytics solutions
  • Implement innovative bioinformatic approaches and machine-learning techniques to advance our understanding of patient heterogeneity and disease pathogenesis

Responsibilities:

  • Connects with cross-functional teams to design products and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions

  • Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized

  • In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights

  • Enables data-driven insights to support clinical development continuum, including precision medicine; Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members.

  • Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development

  • Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine-learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior

  • Drive the definition, design, implementation and validation of cutting-edge algorithms to analyze disparate data sources to achieve targeted outcomes by leveraging machine-learning, and Artificial Intelligence approaches, predictive and statistical modeling concepts, clustering and classification techniques

  • Ensures consistent analytics support to the AbbVie Clinical Trial and Precision Medicine portfolio through effective resource management, prioritization, and timeline management

  • Reviews landscape for new technologies and methodologies that can support the utilization of clinical data, multi-omics data and real-world data. Identifies use cases that are appropriate for the application of artificial intelligence

  • Collaborates across R&D functional areas to link data and key learnings for broad impact on complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple scientific and/or clinical discipline and Advanced Analytics methodologies. Capable of translating complex data science findings to broad audiences


Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent. Ph.D. degree preferred
  • Must have 3-5 years of analytics-related experience in clinical research, including demonstrated high-level analytics and leadership competencies.
  • Advanced career-level proficiency in R, Python or other statistical packages. Intermediate-level knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques
  • Proven expertise in machine-learning and other advanced analytics techniques
  • Demonstrated effective communication skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate analytical and technical concepts in layman’s terms
  • Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated history of successful execution in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively
  • Experience working in Cloud Computing environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc) is preferred
  • Experience in hands-on analysis of OMICS data, optimally including genomics data analysis plus two other OMICS technologies, is preferred. Experience in basic Immunology research and/or drug discovery 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: ​
  • 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. ​
AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.
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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description

Purpose:

The selected candidate will join a team of data scientists and data engineers with a unique blend of scientific, technical, and machine-learning expertise who seek to:
  • Optimize the quality, efficiency, and depth of insight generation from clinical biomarker data to support faster data-driven decision-making and to empower Precision Medicine Scientists in the future strategic planning for our assets
  • Unleash the full potential of internal and external/real-world biomarker data sources by facilitating deep exploration and analysis of complex biomarker data via fit-for-purpose data analytics solutions
  • Implement innovative bioinformatic approaches and machine-learning techniques to advance our understanding of patient heterogeneity and disease pathogenesis

Responsibilities:

  • Connects with cross-functional teams to design products and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions

  • Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized

  • In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights

  • Enables data-driven insights to support clinical development continuum, including precision medicine; Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members.

  • Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development

  • Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine-learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior

  • Drive the definition, design, implementation and validation of cutting-edge algorithms to analyze disparate data sources to achieve targeted outcomes by leveraging machine-learning, and Artificial Intelligence approaches, predictive and statistical modeling concepts, clustering and classification techniques

  • Ensures consistent analytics support to the AbbVie Clinical Trial and Precision Medicine portfolio through effective resource management, prioritization, and timeline management

  • Reviews landscape for new technologies and methodologies that can support the utilization of clinical data, multi-omics data and real-world data. Identifies use cases that are appropriate for the application of artificial intelligence

  • Collaborates across R&D functional areas to link data and key learnings for broad impact on complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple scientific and/or clinical discipline and Advanced Analytics methodologies. Capable of translating complex data science findings to broad audiences


Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent. Ph.D. degree preferred
  • Must have 3-5 years of analytics-related experience in clinical research, including demonstrated high-level analytics and leadership competencies.
  • Advanced career-level proficiency in R, Python or other statistical packages. Intermediate-level knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques
  • Proven expertise in machine-learning and other advanced analytics techniques
  • Demonstrated effective communication skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate analytical and technical concepts in layman’s terms
  • Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated history of successful execution in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively
  • Experience working in Cloud Computing environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc) is preferred
  • Experience in hands-on analysis of OMICS data, optimally including genomics data analysis plus two other OMICS technologies, is preferred. Experience in basic Immunology research and/or drug discovery 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: ​
  • 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. ​
AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. ","datePosted":"2024-03-19T01:14:34+00:00","validThrough":"2124-03-19T01:14:34+00:00","employmentType":["Full-time"],"hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"AbbVie","image":"","logo":"","sameAs":"https://careers.abbvie.com","url":"https://careers.abbvie.com"},"industry":["Research & Development"],"jobBenefits":"$103500 - $197000","identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"AbbVie","value":"8ceafc25-2157-4b1c-a084-c0e7cda0e31a"},"jobLocation":[{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"North Chicago, IL"}}]}
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$103500 - $197000

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