Python Job: Digitalization and Data Scientist

In Roche´s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organisation (pRED), we make transformative medicines for patients in order to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs. At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicine. Together, we create a culture defined by curiosity, responsibility and humility, where our talented people are empowered and inspired to bring forward extraordinary life-changing innovation at speed.

This position is located in Preclinical Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (pCMC), a department within the pRED Therapeutic Modalities organization, where we pave the path to bring drug candidates from early research into development in a diverse, ambitious and innovative environment. We collaborate actively with our discovery and development partners' functions providing cutting-edge technologies and scientific excellence to transform molecules into future medicines.

We are CMC experts and build our strength on a broad diversity of technical expertise in chemistry, formulation, analytical chemistry, delivering and innovating in the space of small molecules, peptides and oligonucleotides.

We are offering an outstanding opportunity for a digitalization and data scientist to enable rational decision-making, develop and improve data processes and workflows and to deliver data-driven insights to project teams.

• Bringing Data Science to a higher level in the organization by extracting knowledge from data sets for informed decision making

• Using established and further evolving modelling techniques and AI tools (machine learning, deep learning) to contribute to project decisions across the various departmental functions regarding molecular, physicochemical, and drug product aspects.

• Nurturing trustful relationships and effective collaboration within our organization and across interfaces with other departments representing pCMC in data science, digitalization and automation networks across the whole Roche community locally and globally

Thriving in a dynamic, inclusive environment gives you full accountability for your own contributions and development. You have a keen interest in continuously building a personal network and are resourceful and flexible in problem-solving and working in a collaborative and inclusive manner. You have a sense of ensuring that everyone has the required information at all times.

You have a Master in Natural Sciences (chemistry, pharmacy, physics, biology, or related field) with extensive professional experience including preferably a PhD or Postdoc in Data or Computational Sciences. You can translate diverse data sets in knowledge by using computational methods. You have hands-on experience in modelling and/or data science techniques including statistical analysis. You combine this with a strong affinity for characteristics of molecules in a pharmaceutical context. How do they interact with themselves and with other molecules, e.g. in a drug formulation? How do you effectively synthesize them? How can you computationally assist experimental methods to analyze them? These are questions which make you thrive and about which you are eager to find an answer. You possess excellent programming skills (e.g. the Python toolkit including Jupyter notebook) in combination with good software engineering practices. When you have a familiarity with pipelining tools (e.g. Pipeline Pilot) and/or visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire) that is an advantage.

You have very strong oral and written communication skills and are dedicated to continuously building a deep understanding of the organization and a personal network. You connect colleagues in multiple parts of the organization to reach shared goals and value a culture of mutual support, cross-training, continuous learning and self-organization to meet project and functional goals.

Roche commits to recognising talent and aptitude. We prioritize encouraging and supporting our employees in their personal journeys by providing a safe, creative space to help them reflect, make decisions and grow in their career.

We are confident that we find the most innovative solutions by gaining different perspectives, asking and answering hard questions, and challenging the status quo. Roche embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious yet enthusiastic way; we are devoted to building a team that represents a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.