Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, Apache Hadoop, Azure, Data science techniques, Databricks, Github, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP), NoSQL, Python Programming, SQL

Job Description

GSK is one of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and we are proud to be part of an industry that improves the lives of others. We are embarking on a significant transformation journey that will support GSK in becoming a top-quartile data-enabled organization.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead data science efforts by partnering with leaders across the company to translate business objectives, market opportunities, and portfolio of offerings into formal and cohesive global commercial strategies.

You will be immersed in up-to-date technologies in the data & analytics environment and on a team that is fully committed to remaining at the leading edge of AI in the industry. Therefore, the impetus for continually improving skills and acquiring knowledge in new technologies will be very strong.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Extract insights to business challenges by applying a broad array of analytics skills including machine learning, statistics, text-mining/NLP, and modeling using structured and unstructured data sources and complementary real-world & digital information streams.

• Streamline strategic decision information, uncover new opportunities, and automate commercial execution to ensure last mile value.

• Collaborate with others at GSK in the discovery, development, and scaling of products based around statistical modeling, machine learning, or artificial intelligence capabilities.

• Develop & deliver code and models from concept to production.

• Contribute to the extensive and varied build and deployment activities involved in establishing new modeling and machine learning capabilities.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree

• 5+ years as a data scientist

• Experience in building and implementing machine learning models

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in STEM subject (e.g., Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry)

• Experience in the marketing and/or pharmaceutical industry and in particular, working knowledge of US-based pharmaceutical dataset and terminologies (e.g., APLD, Xponent, NDC)

• Ability to coordinate and manage competing priorities across a portfolio of projects.

• Compile, integrate, and analyze data from multiple sources to answer business questions.

• Accountability for driving projects and improvement activities through value delivery across different business areas.

• Experience communicating advanced data science concepts to business stakeholders and leaders in a clear and simple way, with the ability to respond effectively to challenge.

• Deep knowledge of a sufficiently broad area of technical specialism (e.g., machine learning, time series, optimization, applied mathematics, simulation, NLP, process mining, process optimization, optimal control), and are a valued and trusted expert.

• Experience in Python-based design/coding. and local data science frameworks and toolkits.

• Practical experience building and implementing large-scale machine learning systems, using SQL, Hadoop, NoSQL or Spark to mine large datasets.

• Experience with the Microsoft Azure technical stack, Databricks, and GitHub.

• Experience in Agile methodologies and the hypothesis-driven approach.

#LI-GSK

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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