Senior Information Architect — Biopharma Ontologies & Data

MSD; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in Boston is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead design, organization, and standardization of scientific data spanning pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing processes.

You will collaborate with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT teams to harmonize biological, chemical, and operational data, and to define ontologies, data models, and governance that improve data quality.

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
• 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 (OSIsoft PI).
• Hands on experience with data modeling tools
• Hands on experience with ontology management tools such as CENTree

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

Ontology management

Data modeling

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

Knowledge graphs

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Lab data systems

OSIsoft PI

CENTree

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Information Science

Tools

CENTree

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. in Boston is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead design, organization, and standardization of scientific data spanning pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing processes.

You will collaborate with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT teams to harmonize biological, chemical, and operational data, and to define ontologies, data models, and governance that improve data quality.