Merck

Data Analyst Job at Merck in Rahway

Merck, Rahway, NJ, United States

Job Description

Summary
The Data Analyst will work on establishing data workflows and predictive tools to enable more effective identification, characterization, and development of novel medicines and vaccines is a key objective for Merck. This position sits within the Digital Sciences team in the Analytical Enabling Capabilities sub-department of Analytical Research & Development. You will be part of a team working collaboratively across a wide range of areas impacting all aspects of the drug discovery and development pipeline. A diverse array of projects spanning data workflows to instrument metrology to predictive sciences ensure this Digital Sciences team helps to enable work across all drug modalities including small molecule, peptide, biologics, vaccines, and beyond. The core Digital Sciences team works with a networked group of digital champions across AR&D and has close connectivity to other digital/data facing teams across Merck Research Laboratories including critical IT collaborators.

Responsibilities

Design and development of dashboards, reports, and data exports.
Meets with business clients/SMEs to collect requirements.
Manage projects and timelines.
Estimation of duration of work.
Presentation of updates to collaborators.

Education

Degree in computer science or related field; or a degree in the chemistry disciplines with strong programming capabilities.

Experience

4-6 years of experience

Must have/required skills

Development of dashboards, reports, and data exports
Familiar with programming in R and/or Python and Posit/RStudio/Jupyter
Experience with data visualization tools (Shiny, Spotfire, Dash, PowerBI, or Tableau)
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Work independently and be able to collaborate as a team
Strive for continuous improvement and suggest innovative solutions to scientists’ common challenges related to data visualization
Version control using Git and GitHub

Nice to have/preferred skills

Connecting to AWS (S3, RedShift, Glue, Athena) as a data source for data visualization
Experience with data pipeline tools such as Dataiku or Databricks
Experience with relational databases and SQL
Experience with graph databases (Neo4J or AWS Neptune)
Experience with statistical data analysis and tools (JMP, Minitab)

Location

Candidates are able to report to onsite three days per week in either Boston, MA, Rahway, NJ, West Point, PA.

Company Description

About Merck:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (“Merck”) is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human health, directly and through its joint ventures.

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as saving and improving lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with other like-minded colleagues to pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is always evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making y our impact today.

Company Description

About Merck:\r\nMerck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (“Merck”) is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human health, directly and through its joint ventures.\r\n\r\nImagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as saving and improving lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with other like-minded colleagues to pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is always evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making y our impact today.