Senior Information Architect for Biopharma Data

Merck; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays and vacation

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Merck seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead the design, organization, and standardization of scientific data across pre‑clinical discovery and manufacturing processes. You will partner with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT to harmonize biological, chemical, and operational data—from raw outputs to GxP‑compliant data lakes.

You will define information architectures, ontologies, and data models, enabling scalable data products and context for research outcomes, while aligning with

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 Biopharmaceutical or Life Sciences.
• Proven hands‑on experience with industry‑standard scientific ontologies, semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), and knowledge graphs.
• Hands on experience translating data needs into reusable data products for a spectrum of needs.
• Deep understanding of pre‑clinical discovery workflows and manufacturing process/method development.
• Strong familiarity with lab data capture solutions (LIMS, ELN, CDS, and lab endpoint software).
• Experience with industrial time‑series data and contextualization tools (OSIsoft PI).

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholders’ outcome needs and insights from data to support these outcomes.
• Embed in product teams enabling capture and consumption of scientific data, to help define/adopt ontologies and data models.
• Define standards and controls for data and metadata to improve quality and context at capture.
• Lead adoption and integration of industry‑standard ontologies (e.g., BAO) to contextualize datasets and manufacturing parameters.
• Develop and maintain best practices for capturing current state of information capture and consumption for entities relevant to research processes.

Skills

Business Process Modeling

Data Management

Data Modeling

Data Science

Requirements Management

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Strategic Planning

System Designs

Technical Advice

Business Enterprise Architecture

Education

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

Tools

CENTree

RDF

OWL

SPARQL

Knowledge Graphs

Job description

Merck seeks a Senior Information Architect to lead the design, organization, and standardization of scientific data across pre‑clinical discovery and manufacturing processes. You will partner with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT to harmonize biological, chemical, and operational data—from raw outputs to GxP‑compliant data lakes.

You will define information architectures, ontologies, and data models, enabling scalable data products and context for research outcomes, while aligning with