Data Scientist

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Operations, Python Programming, R Programming, R-Shiny

Job Description

The candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on designing and adapting innovative programmatic methods for creating analysis ready data products to enable biomarker research. She/he will work as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on designing and adapting innovative programmatic methods for creating analysis-ready data products to enable biomarker research. The candidate will engage in pioneering and impactful research alongside highly collaborative computational and experimental scientists with expertise in machine learning, bioinformatics, cell biology, and cell therapy. We encourage inquiries from those with a background in data science who have a passion for innovation and interdisciplinary application of programmatic approaches to life sciences data. Soft skills such as creativity, open-mindedness, high adaptability to dynamic research environments, and strong interpersonal skills for effectively developing user-focused tools will be highly regarded.

The Role 

• Collaborate closely with Data Operations to optimize the design of data ingestion pipelines through workflow efficiencies for laboratory scientists, connections to existing data flows, and robust data output quality assessments.
• Contribute to the data as a product reproducible research-centric ways of working.
• Create automated data visualizations for lab scientists.
• Partner with IT for in-house generated data back-up and redundancy.
• Evaluate and enable tools for automated analysis such as flow cytometry gating.
• Adherence to FAIR data principles to surface data products and knowledge for re-use.

Minimal Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or data-related field (e.g. Data Science, Computer Science, Genomics, Bioinformatics) with 5 years industry/academic experience, Master’s degree with at least 3 years industry/academic experience or a PhD.
• Experience applying data science-based solutions to real-world problems.
• Expertise in scientific programming languages (e.g. R, Python), Posit Connect, R Shiny & reproducible research frameworks (e.g. Git, Docker).
• Verbal and written English language fluency are a prerequisite.
• Intense curiosity about the biology of disease and eagerness to contribute to scientific and computational efforts.

Nice to have

• Experience with biomarker data.
• Prior research projects in pharma/biotech, university, or hospital environments.

Our team is very multidisciplinary and candidates with diverse backgrounds and expertise have been successful in our group. If your profile does not completely match the description above, but you have a strong interest in the work we are doing, we encourage you to apply!

Bristol-Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender identity, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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