Associate Scientist, Data II

Allergan; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Information Research is seeking an Associate Data Scientist focused on Knowledge Graph Engineering to design, build, and maintain semantic data infrastructure. You will translate complex source data into well-modeled, interlinked graph structures, write pipelines, and collaborate with domain experts to make the knowledge graph a reliable source of truth.

You will work with solution architects, product owners, program managers, and analysts to deliver data and analytics solutions across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years’ experience or Master’s Degree equivalent with no additional experience.
• Experience with software development lifecycle including Git, testing, and basic CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with at least one graph database and its query language (Cypher or SPARQL).
• Experience with data analysis programming languages (SQL, Python, Apache Spark, SAS & R).

Responsibilities

• Graph data modeling: design and refine labeled-property and RDF graph models representing entities and connections across sources.
• Pipeline development: build, test, and maintain ingestion pipelines for graph data from various sources.
• Query engineering: write and document Cypher queries for loading, validating, and retrieving data.
• Data quality and validation: implement constraints, validation rules, and automated tests to keep the graph consistent.
• Performance and operations: monitor graph performance, tune indexes and queries, manage environments.
• Collaboration and documentation: work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and document models, lineage, and decisions clearly.

Skills

Git

CI/CD

Graph databases

Cypher/SPARQL

SQL

Python

Apache Spark

SAS & R

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Neo4j

Amazon Neptune

TigerGraph

RDF triple store

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, XandYouTube.

Job Description

AbbVie Information Research is seekingan Associate DataScientistwithfocusonKnowledge Graph Engineeringto design, build, andmaintainthe semantic data infrastructure that connects information across our domains. In this role you will translate complex source data into well-modeled, interlinked graph structures, write the queries and pipelines that populate and validate them, and collaborate with domain experts, and platform teams to make our knowledge graph a reliable, query able source of truth. This role collaborates withsolutionarchitects, product owners, program managers, business analysts, infrastructureteams, and service providers to deliverdata and analyticssolutions.

Responsibilities:

• Graph data modeling.Contribute toDesign and refinelabeled-propertyand/or RDF graph models — nodes, relationships, properties, and constraints — that accurately represent entities and their connections across source systems.
• Pipeline development.Build,test,andmaintainingestion pipelines that extract data from relational, document, and file-based sources, transform it, and load it into the graph using batch and incremental patterns.
• Query engineering.Write,optimize, and document Cypher queries for data loading, validation, entity resolution, and downstream retrieval, including support for graph-backed and retrieval-augmented applications.
• Data quality and validation.Implement constraints, validation rules, entityresolution(e.g., SHACL or property checks), and automated tests that keep the graph consistent, traceable, and trustworthy.
• Performance and operations.Monitor graph performance, tune indexes andqueries, andassistwith environment management across development, validation, and production tiers.
• Collaboration and documentation.Partner with cross functional teams, analysts, and domain subject-matter experts to gather requirements; document data models, lineage, and design decisions clearly for technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years’experience; orMaster’s Degreeequivalent education with noadditionalexperience.
• Exposurewith software development lifecycleincludingGit, testing, and basic CI/CD workflows.
• Exposurewith at least one graph database (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Tiger Graph, or an RDF triple store) and its query language (Cypher or SPARQL).
• Exposurewithanydata analysis programming languages (e.g., SQL,Python&ApacheSpark,SAS & R)including structured and unstructured data.

Preferred:

• Exposureworkingwithentity resolution, record linkage, knowledge graph construction,vector databases and embeddings,andretrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or graph-RAG patternsis preferred.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on manyfactors including geographiclocation,andwemay ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may bemodified in thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount isearned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat areallocable to a particular employeeremains in the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodified at the Company’s sole and absolutediscretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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