AA2IT is hiring: Data Scientist in Rahway

Data Analyst

Education:

• Candidates with a 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)

• 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)

Note: • We could have someone report to site 3 days/week in Boston, Rahway, or West Point,PA. Hybrid Role. • 1 year duration with a possibility of extension.

Responsibilities:

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 / Day-to-Day:

• Design and development of dashboards, reports, and data exports.

• Meets with business clients/SMEs to collect requirements.

• Manage projects and timelines

Comments/Special Instructions

We could have someone report to site 3 days/week in Boston, Rahway, or West Point,PA. Y. • Hybrid Role. • 1 year duration with a possibility of extension. • Only submit candidate with legit work authorization with no requirement for sponsorship.