JavaScript Job: Data Scientist

Data & Statistical Sciences is a department of over 1,000 data scientists working across multiple therapeutic areas to bring Roche molecules to patients. As an industry leader in data science, we have a strong commitment to developing open post-competitive tools that accelerate the time to insights.

As a member of Data Science Acceleration, you will work on projects that amplify the impact of data scientists, working on tooling across modern data science languages like R and python to build tools that unlock patient data and streamline meaningful insights.

As a Data Science Software Engineer, you are expected to

• Work on software products to revolutionise the way our Data Scientists generate actionable and novel insights

• Contribute to open source R packages and python libraries that form part of our data science stack

• Responsible for supporting the strategic, technical and business direction of our Data Sciences software products

• Review opportunities to simplify, innovate and collaborate with experts within and outside of the Data Sciences organisation to create efficiencies in clinical trial data collection, data storage, data processing, and data analysis

• Required skills include advanced programming capability in R, familiarity of modern version control tools, software development tools like CICD and open-source principles

• Preferred skills include knowledge of Rshiny, python, javascript, container, AWS services like S3 and SQL/NoSQL databases.

• Have a passion for the continual evolution of data science, and be a pragmatic subject matter expert able to assess the wide ecosystem of tools relevant to data science, from AWS through to snakemake, and be able to design, run and productionize efforts to help improve our path to insights.

Qualifications

• College/University degree – bachelor degree or higher or equivalent education in scientific, computer science, medical or relevant technical discipline.

• Experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry is a bonus.

• Track record of establishing successful internal partnerships and collaborations.

• Influential and confident communicator

• Demonstrates experience or is adaptable to utilizing and/or models modern ways of working consistent with an agile and growth mindset, and agile behaviours and methodologies.

• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Ability to work across multiple cultures and countries

• Willingness to travel as required

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.