Senior Scientist

Preferred site locations: Upper Merion, Stevenage, or Upper Providence. On-site presence of 2-3 days per week required.

Are you energized by a highly collaborative scientific role in analytical chemistry platforms that allows you to accelerate scientific and R&D delivery? If so, this role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

The Digital Analytical Platforms team within Analytical Development is responsible for innovations to assess and when warranted implement platforms that enhance analytical chemistry through digitization and efficiency gains. The primary purpose of this collaborative role is to improve and leverage the fleet of open-access non-GMP chromatography platforms to accelerate discovery and development across a diverse and global user group. These open-access instruments are integral to our license to operate, and support most of our potential medicines. 

As a Senior Scientist in Digital Analytical Platforms, you will propose and deliver near term tactical solutions and contribute to long term strategic solutions. You will use quantitative and/or qualitative data and analysis using chromatagraphy instruments and methods, and systems engineering to advance platform technologies. In addition, you will enable a high standard of data integrity and technical efficiency applied towards scientific methodology.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
 

Contribute to the design and independent execution of root cause analysis and experiments based on interpretation of results

Maintain a scientifically current to state-of-the-art chromatography systems

Provide attention to data quality, integrity and archiving for own work

Propose, and with support implement, new research directions and innovative strategies to achieve project, platform, and department goals

Perform complex data management and data interpretation tasks/analyses

Identify bottlenecks, and systematically evaluate and assess root causes of errors in the laboratory, differentiating with rigor between inefficiencies arising from human, software, hardware, firmware, and/or chemical sources.

Deliver automated and/or digital solutions to reduce or eliminate common failure modes

Design and interpret complex experiments and data management activities, and make recommendations on how these could be best leveraged

Make effective decisions to achieve desired outcomes of project team through technical or scientific interpretation of results

Maintain and grow our support network with partner departments

Contribute to a collaboration with Agilent to deliver improvements as required

Develop networking skills with internal and external stakeholders and experts in specific scientific disciplines

Identify new scientific and or engineering opportunities, which may include analytical data pipeline and visualization projects that support the discovery and development of candidate medicines.

Adhere to safety, regulatory and compliance standards within the department

Contribute to peer-review of others’ work

As situationally warranted, contribute as co-author to scientific papers

Seek peer challenge and review of scientific ideas and experimental design

Prepare detailed oral or written reports of results in the context of strategic fit, feasibility and rationale for projects

Present at internal Research and Development forums and external meetings subject to budget availability

After doing so jointly with peers, begin to independently prepare and communicate conclusions and recommendations for next steps

Demonstrate networking skills through interactions across departments and divisions

Lead small projects/project sub teams to achieve technical or business outcomes

Active and influential scientific participant in at least one project/program

Update supervisor and matrix leaders to inform progress and activities

Anticipate problems and proactively seek input from other teams/divisions within Research and Development

Use scientific and or engineering technical expertise to solve project related problems of colleagues and of other projects

Basic Qualifications:

M.S. degree or comparable industrial experience in one or more of the following areas:

Preferred: chemistry (analytical, organic, biochemistry), engineering (chemistry, systems, data, computer, software, industrial, materials), data science or engineering, computer science
Considered: chemistry (inorganic, forensic, physical, environmental), engineering (mechanical, biomedical, environmental)

Proven track record of solving complex problems

Experience analyzing data

Strong communication

Learning agility

Preferred Qualifications:

Basic knowledge of regulatory requirements and drug development process

Scientific laboratory experience

Chromatography experience (HPLC, GC, LC/MS)

Data visualization expertise (Spotfire or other)

Project matrix-environment experience

Ability to influence others

Coding (Python, C#, R, VBA or demonstrated learning agility to develop these skills, and/or experience working in GitHub)

Non-GMP and or GMP systems

Risk assessment and or management

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