Senior Information Architect - Bio Data Ontologies

MSD Malaysia; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead the design, organization, and standardization of scientific data across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing processes.

You will define information architectures, ontologies, and data models to enable data quality and contextualization in support of biopharma innovation. You will collaborate with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT teams to harmonize diverse data—from raw scientific outputs to GxP-compliant manufacturing

Qualifications

• 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

• Understand stakeholder outcomes and translate them into data insights.
• Embed in product teams to define ontologies and data models that support capture and consumption of data.
• Lead standards and controls for data and metadata quality at capture.
• Drive adoption and integration of industry-standard ontologies to contextualize datasets and process parameters.
• Develop and maintain best practices for capturing current state of information capture and consumption for research entities.

Skills

Ontologies

Data modeling

Knowledge graphs

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Strategic planning

Communication

System designs

Technical guidance

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences/CS/Bioinformatics/Information Science

Tools

CENTree

OSIsoft PI

LIMS

ELN

CDS

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead the design, organization, and standardization of scientific data across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing processes.

You will define information architectures, ontologies, and data models to enable data quality and contextualization in support of biopharma innovation. You will collaborate with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT teams to harmonize diverse data—from raw scientific outputs to GxP-compliant manufacturing