Associate Director, Info Architecture & Ontologies

MSD Malaysia; Rahway (NJ); On-site; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick and compassionate leave

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead information architecture across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing data.

You will design ontologies, data models, and controls that harmonize biological, chemical, and process data for GxP compliance and data quality. The role collaborates with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT, ensuring standardized data capture and high-value data products across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Information Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as an Information Architect or similar role within the Biopharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry.
• Proven, hands-on experience working with industry-standard scientific ontologies, semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), and knowledge graphs.
• Hands on experience working with stakeholders to understand data needs in support of insights and defining data models to deliver reusable data products for a spectrum of needs
• Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of pre-clinical discovery workflows and manufacturing process/method development.
• Strong familiarity with dominant lab data capture solutions (LIMS, ELN, CDS, and lab endpoint software).
• Experience with industrial time-series data and contextualization tools (e.g., OSIsoft PI).
• Technical Skills: Hands on experience with data modeling tools Hands on experience with ontology management tools such as CENTree.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between scientific stakeholders and technical engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand their key outcome needs and Insights from data that can support these outcomes
• Embed in product teams enabling capture and consumption of scientific data, to help define/adopt ontologies and data models that support capture and consumption of data in service of these research outcomes
• Working as a part of data capture product team, be a voice of activation for, and help define standards and controls for data and metadata to improve quality and context of data at capture
• Lead the adoption and integration of industry-standard ontologies (such as BioAssay Ontology (BAO) and others) to contextualize scientific datasets (e.g., Raman spectra raw data, assay results) and manufacturing process parameters.
• Develop and maintain best practices for capturing current state of information capture and consumption for entities relavent to research processes to help improve investment in data

Skills

BEA

BPM

Data Management

Data Modeling

Data Science

Requirements Mgmt

Stakeholder Mgmt

Strategic Planning

System Design

Technical Advice

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

BAO Ontology

CENTree

LIMS/ELN/CDS

OSIsoft PI

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Life Sciences/CS/Bioinformatics/Info Sci

Tools

CENTree

LIMS

ELN

CDS

RDF/OWL/SPARQL tools

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead information architecture across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing data.

You will design ontologies, data models, and controls that harmonize biological, chemical, and process data for GxP compliance and data quality. The role collaborates with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT, ensuring standardized data capture and high-value data products across the enterprise.