Senior Information Architect — Biopharma Ontology & Data

Merck; West Point (PA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead the design and standardization of scientific data across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing methodologies. The role partners with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT to harmonize biological, chemical, and operational data—from raw outputs to GxP-compliant data lakes.

Responsibilities include embedding in product teams, defining ontologies, and driving industry-standard data models to improve data quality and contextualization.

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 with scientific ontologies, semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), and knowledge graphs.
• Experience defining data models to deliver reusable data products for diverse needs.
• Deep understanding of pre-clinical discovery workflows and manufacturing processes.
• Familiarity with LIMS, ELN, CDS, and lab endpoint software.

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholder data needs and insights to guide information architecture.
• Define ontologies and data models to support data capture and consumption for research outcomes.
• Set standards and controls for data and metadata quality at capture.
• Lead adoption of industry ontologies to contextualize datasets and manufacturing parameters.
• Develop best practices for information capture and data consumption across processes.

Skills

Ontology management

Data modeling

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

Knowledge graphs

Stakeholder collaboration

Information architecture

Data governance

Pre-clinical workflows

Education

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

Tools

CENTree

LIMS

ELN

CDS

OSIsoft PI

Job description

Merck is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead the design and standardization of scientific data across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing methodologies. The role partners with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT to harmonize biological, chemical, and operational data—from raw outputs to GxP-compliant data lakes.

Responsibilities include embedding in product teams, defining ontologies, and driving industry-standard data models to improve data quality and contextualization.