DT Lead - Information Architecture

Make your mark for patients

To strengthen our Digital Technology Solutions Information Architecture team, we are looking to fill the position of DT Lead, Information Architect out of our Boston R&D hub.

As Lead Information Architect, you will deliver innovative data management, integration, and streaming platforms to underpin cutting-edge drug discovery processes. Your solutions will enable data analysis, machine learning and data driven decision-making by therapeutic project teams throughout the drug discovery and early development pipeline. The skills you bring will boost a fast-moving research environment aiming to transform patients' lives.

You like to work in an environment where you can:

• Accelerate drug discovery by delivering data platforms that expose and exploit the power of data.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams on projects spanning all aspects of drug discovery: from target discovery through early development.
• Use your technical skills to extend and enrich data management platforms to support new modalities, e.g., Gene Therapy, Proteomics, Functional Genomics and more.
  • Define new data models, select appropriate technology stacks, and map new concepts into a central platform.
  • Ingest and combine relevant open external data alongside UCBs proprietary data.
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts to define practical but rigorous business rules to ensure data consistency as enabler for AI/ML.
  • Build data pipelines and algorithms to support data import, normalization, and calculations.
• Influence how scientists and IT work together - drive the adoption of modern ideas at UCB such as FAIR data principles, Data Governance and agile development practices to deliver powerful data platforms.
• Be an integral part of the team delivering a streamlined support model to scientists based in Belgium, U.K. & the U.S. Working with key Scientists, vendors, and wider IT team.
• Autonomously drive and prioritise Information Architecture programs at our US research hub.

You will contribute by:

• Acting as a technical expert: deliver, maintain, and extend smart innovative data engineering solutions for a wide variety of drug discovery data pipelines - enabling UCB to exploit complex data (internal and public).
• Leading by influence and on project basis multi-disciplinary teams involving scientists, data scientists and IT to architect, design and deliver solutions in an agile manner.
• Representing the Information Architecture team at all levels across our US geography

Interested? For this position, you'll need the following education, experience, and skills:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience managing high volume, content, and variable scientific data
• 8+ years of experience in Information Architecture or similar role
• 4+ years of experience within the life science industry
• Solid foundations in handling data fluidly (parse, transfer, store, edit) and building data pipelines utilising your skillset in data modelling, data warehousing and related technology (SQL/NoSQL) and ETL/ELT.
• You have solid knowledge in at least one programming language - preferably in Python, R, Scala and knowledge of Agile software development principles.

Other Qualifications:

• Exposure to and usage of graph and array databases
• Usage of data streaming technologies such as Spark
• Excellent Communication skills, able to convey technical topics to a non-expert audience or to abstract scientific contexts when engaging with IT partners at all levels of seniority.
• You are curious and motivated, even when tackling multidisciplinary or unfamiliar projects.
• Great organizational skills and ability to multitask.

Salary Range: $166,800 to $218,925 (Cambridge, MA)

$141,760 to $186,060 (Raleigh, NC)

Internal applicants should be in their current job for at least 12 months, must meet performance standards and are not on formal corrective/disciplinary process (PIP), warning, final warning, or compliance warning letters within the last 12 months. Please inform your Manager or your Talent Partner before applying to any internal job opportunities.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent, and adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.

Requisition ID: 88326 

Recruiter: John Gasbarre 

Hiring Manager: Daniel Taylor Chapman 

Talent Partner: Britta Gotsch

Job Level: MM II - MM I

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