Senior Information Architect — Life Sciences Data Strategy

Merck; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead the design and standardisation of scientific data across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing processes.

You will partner with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT teams to harmonise biological, chemical, and operational data—from raw outputs to GxP-compliant data lakes, enabling data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Education in Life Sciences, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Information Science, or related field.
• 5+ years as an Information Architect or similar in Biopharma or Life Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholder data needs to derive insights and data outcomes.
• Define ontologies and data models to support research goals.
• Lead standards and controls for data and metadata at capture.
• Adopt industry ontologies (e.g., BAO) to contextualise datasets and parameters.
• Develop best practices for capturing and contextualising information.

Skills

Ontology management

Data modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Data governance

Semantic web

Knowledge graphs

RDF/OWL/SPARQL

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

CENTree

LIMS

ELN

OSIsoft PI

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead the design and standardisation of scientific data across pre-clinical discovery and manufacturing processes.

You will partner with R&D scientists, process engineers, and IT teams to harmonise biological, chemical, and operational data—from raw outputs to GxP-compliant data lakes, enabling data-driven decisions.