Associate Data Scientist I

Company Description

AbbVies mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on peoples lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

This is a hybrid role based in Lake County, IL

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As an Associate Data Scientist I in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

Purpose

The Data Analytics and Visualization team is comprised of data scientists also equipped with a background in the science we enable. Quite simply, we evolve science with data. We partner with R&D scientists to build and advance solutions that make discovering and developing medicines better. Join this collaborative team in a flexible work environment to help Abbvie make a remarkable impact on people’s lives.

Responsibilities

Perform analyses and implement technologies to deliver precise, reliable, and reproducible reports or solutions in a timely manner, under the direction of a more senior leader. Demonstrate technical precision and should possess general understanding of software development, data integration and warehousing, and data analysis and visualization tools.

You will create chemistry capabilities for drug design initiatives and chemistry related workflows using cheminformatics methods for scientists in the R&D community. Working closely with the Drug Discovery organization, this person will create technological deployments, data integrations, and scientific applications with the goal to enhance chemical data analysis and visualization, such as structural representation systems and virtual reaction capabilities. Key responsibilities include implementing new tools for data capture and curation, data integration, data visualization, and analysis of large and complex data sets. This opportunity offers the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week.

Skills you will develop in this role:

Completely follow established technical protocols and assess results with supervision. Perform routine tasks competently. Effectively organize work.

Recognize and report data or technical variances.

Learn and effectively implement new methods and technologies.

Consult literature and publicly available information to understand purpose of assignments.

Combining chemistry foundation with passion for technology to enable chemistry workflows through chemistry technology solutions (using a breadth of tools such as RDKit and Spotfire)

Clear interpersonal communication, proofreading, editing, and formatting skills

Advanced problem-solving and quantitative skills

Navigation of large and complex data sets

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or equivalent experience

Strong understanding of principles of organic chemistry and chemical structure

Familiarity with Python

Meticulously detail-oriented and eager to delve into vast datasets

Demonstrated effective communication skills.

Demonstrated problem-solving and quantitative skills.

Preferred

Strong background in/affinity for computer science or data science

Familiarity with Unix/Linux systems, high-performance compute clusters, or SQL

Comfortable proactively initiating communications for problem solving efforts

Exposure to medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry, drug-design, computational chemistry

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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Salary: $58,656 – $98,000