Sr. Manager - Data Science & AI Solution Developer

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Sr. Manager, Data Science & AI Solution Developer

Location: Remote

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Data Science and AI Solutions Developer to join an exceptional team that creates advanced analytical solutions to support decision-making in pharma development and Medical Operations. This position will provide hands-on data science and machine learning engineering support of an end-to-end capability build, primarily for Development & Medical Operations. You will contribute to the development of a world-class analytics environment, apply advanced analytics techniques to diverse data types, and actively participate in the creation of analytics data products. Your role will involve collaborating with stakeholders to demonstrate the value of advanced analytics, data science & AI developing novel solution by using various modalities of internal & external data and enhancing the capabilities of the clinical development and medical operations teams. In addition, there will be multiple opportunities to collaborate on projects outside of Development & Medical Operation team within the broader DS/AI, including Portfolio & Development team, pipeline, portfolio, and ecosystem solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Data Science & AI Solutions:

• Create robust, scalable advanced analytics solutions, incl. machine learning (ML) algorithms, and centralized data platforms.
• Build reusable tools and/or libraries to streamline the data analytics pipeline and sharing knowledge.
• Delivering Data Science & AI solutions for Clinical Quality, Clinical Feasibility, Enrollment Forecasting, Trial Intelligence etc.
• Develop data visualizations and/or dashboards utilizing BMS supported tool-of-preference to facilitate delivering impactful insights.
• Build reusable tools and/or libraries to streamline the data analytics pipeline and sharing knowledge.
• Stay informed about advancements in pharma forecasting methodologies and tools.

Collaboration:

• Engage key stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical specifications, exploring all modalities of data, assessing new approaches, and building prototypes to advance business use cases and/or deliver business value.
• Work closely with data scientists and domain experts to ensure compatibility of solutions with other tools/platform/workflows.
• Engage and collaborate with a diverse team of business stakeholders, analysts, data scientists and IT to translate unstructured, complex business problems into data and information needs and deliver the appropriate data, modeling, and/or analytical solutions.

Data analysis and modeling:

• Familiarity with complex data analysis & wrangling approaches, analyze on imputation need, to assess quality and pre-processing needs.
• Develop ML models, statistical inference to support aggregation of model inputs/assumptions while accounting for uncertainty, statistical explainability of outcome.

Solution deployment:

• Deploy solutions into cloud ecosystem, familiarity of MLOPs, striving for seamless integration with existing systems.
• Collaborate with IT to optimize data pipelines and establish efficient data management practices.

Optimize model performance:

• Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of models, including validation of ML models.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the business impact of models, such as quality and efficiency.

Technical documentation:

• Document specifications (e.g., architecture, data flows, algorithms) to ensure transparency and reproducibility.
• Keep documentation up to date as solutions are optimized or expanded.

Qualifications & Experience

Education and experience:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Applied Math, Bio Informatics, Operations Research or equivalent working experience in a highly analytical field.
• 5+ years of experience working as a Solutions Developer or similar role, preferably in pharma.

Technical knowledge:

• In-depth experience in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data modeling
• In-depth experience using programming languages such Python, R, or similar.
• Demonstrated competence in data & analytics skillsets such as data mining, data visualization, machine learning, code development in python/R, Github, cloud computing platforms like AWS, model governance with MLFlow or equivalent.
• Experience building data access and visualization tools.
• Familiarity with modern computer vision, computational linguistic and/or transformer-based natural language processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Large Language Models (LLM) frameworks.
• Preferably, experience with pharma R&D or Clinical or Medical domain experience.

Domain knowledge:

• Deep interest in the drug development and commercialization process.
• Preferably, experience with pharmaceutical industry analytics incl. data sources, market research, R&D data, or real-world data.

Analytical problem-solving:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to apply different approaches to technical challenges.

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $121,000 - $152,000, plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).

The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and the geographic location where work is performed.

Final, individual compensation is decided commensurate with demonstrated experience.

For more on benefits, please visit our BMS Careers Site. Eligibility for specific benefits listed therein may vary based on job and location.

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On-site Protocol

Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

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