About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health.We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Position Accountability/Scope:
The Senior Data Scientist and Engineer is responsible for/ helps delivering targeted business impact per initiative in collaboration with key stakeholders. He / she works on end-to-end data management that will enable faster, better and more informed decision-making within the business and help create business value out of data & analytics.
Core Job Responsibilities:
Help build and maintain a close contact to key business stakeholders and relevant communities
Build effective and efficient Advanced Analytics solutions to business needs, leveraging available market resources as much as possible
Help derive and continuously refine AA guidelines and standards through synthesizing learnings from prioritized AA initiative (“learning while doing and driving impact”).
Work with key stakeholders within the company to help model their data landscape, obtain data extracts, and define secure data exchange approaches • Help plan and deliver secure, good practice data integration strategies and approaches
Help acquire, ingest, and process data from multiple sources and systems into Big Data platforms
Help create and manage data environments in the Cloud
Collaborate with our Data Scientists and engineers to map data fields to hypotheses and curate, Page 2 of 2 wrangle, and prepare data for use in their advanced analytical models • Ideally, have a strong understanding of Information Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of client data wrangle, and prepare data for use in their advanced analytical models
Ideally, have a strong understanding of Information Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of client data
Minimum Education:
Master in relevant field (e.g., applied mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, applied statistics)
Minimum Experience/Training Required:
At least 4 - 6 years of relevant working experience in larger companies or corporates, ideally in pharma environment
Good /solid experience working on full-life cycle data science; experience in applying data science methods to business problems (experience in the financial/commercial or manufacturing / supply chain areas a plus).
Proven ability to work across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, extracting information and identifying linkages across disparate data sets • Strong experience in multiple database technologies such as: Distributed Processing (Spark, Hadoop, EMR) Traditional RDBMS (MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) MPP (AWS Redshift, Teradata) NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, Titan)
Strong experience in e.g., data mining, statistical modelling, predictive modeling and development of machine learning algorithms
Practical experience in deploying machine learning solutions
Programming experience in R or Python and ideally also in object-orientated programming such as e.g., C, C++, Java
Good understanding of good software engineering principles
Good knowledge of testing frameworks and libraries
Strong experience and interest in Cloud platforms such as e.g., AWS
Proven problem-solving ability in international settings
Result-oriented analytical and creative thinker with strong background in analytics and statistics
Proven communication skills
Intrinsic motivation to guide people and make Advanced Analytics more accessible to a broader range of stakeholders. Ability to work with cross-functional teams and bring business and data science closer together - consultancy experience a plus
Fluency in English a must, additional languages a plus