Remote Senior Pharma Data Scientist - Drive Drug Discovery

Placements24; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Senior Pharmaceutical Data Scientist to lead advanced analytics in drug discovery and development from anywhere in South Africa. You will extract insights from complex biological data, build predictive models, and drive data-driven decisions within research teams.

The role requires a PhD or Master’s in a quantitative field and 5–7 years of data science experience with pharma datasets.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in a quantitative field required.
• 5–7 years of hands-on data science with ML and statistical modeling.
• Experience with pharma/biomedical datasets.
• Proficiency in Python or R and ML libraries.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement advanced statistical models and ML algorithms on pharmaceutical datasets.
• Design data mining strategies to identify biomarkers or targets.
• Build predictive models for efficacy, toxicity, and patient stratification.
• Collaborate with scientists to define research questions and analyses.
• Develop robust data pipelines and reproducible workflows.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to a data science culture.
• Ensure data privacy, integrity, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Python

R

Machine learning

Statistics

Data mining

Education

PhD or Master’s in Data Science/CS/Statistics/Bioinformatics

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

pandas

NumPy

AWS

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Senior Pharmaceutical Data Scientist to lead advanced analytics in drug discovery and development from anywhere in South Africa. You will extract insights from complex biological data, build predictive models, and drive data-driven decisions within research teams.

The role requires a PhD or Master’s in a quantitative field and 5–7 years of data science experience with pharma datasets.