TECHNOLOGY LEAD, NON CLINICAL SAFETY, M/F

Job description

About Johnson&Johnson and Janssen-Cilag France: ‘Caring for the world, one person at a time’... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science
- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people.
Johnson & Johnson is the largest and most diverse healthcare company in the world. Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies comprises amongst others: (i) the world’s sixth-largest consumer health company, the world’s largest and most diverse medical devices company, the world’s sixth-largest biologics company and (ii) the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceuticals company (the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson). During the last half-century, Johnson & Johnson has brought together a number of innovative pharmaceutical companies with one overarching goal: to address and solve some of the most important unmet medical needs of our time.
Today, the pharmaceutical operations are united under a common name — the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson: together, we share a vision of providing innovative solutions that bring value to people, healthcare professionals and health systems around the world. Today, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, including Janssen-Cilag France, are one of the most innovative pharmaceutical companies in the world. Janssen Pharmaceutica NV in Belgium, one of our main research and development centres, develop products for a wide range of disease areas, such as mental disorders, neurological problems, infectious diseases, immunological disorders, cancer, and cardiovascular and metabolic conditions.
Driven by our commitment to patients, we deliver products and services that offer hope and a healthier life to people throughout the world. For more information, you can visit www.janssen.com.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Technology Lead supports the scientific applications in Non Clinical safety, which requires a deep understanding of the business processes and scientific needs from a data perspective but also requires some level of IT background to remediate technology issues or needs.
This person also needs to have good communication skills as he/she will communicate actively with the scientists and IT teams.
As part of the Data Sciences team you will first be trained within the V.I.E program for 6 months in Belgium allowing you to understand the business processes and the mission of the Non Clinical Safety department. We will learn you how the scientific systems are working which will help you to prepare yourself when moving to the United States, one position is foreseen in the Springhouse (East Coast) site and the other position in La Jolla (West Coast).
Duration of the V.I.E mission:
- 6 months in Belgium
- then 18 months in the USA (maximum period within the J1 Trainee visa).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
This is an excellent opportunity to deepen your scientific and IT knowledge in a global organization in the heart of drug development and safety evaluation of a compound and play an important role in improving study execution, reporting and data analysis
- Connecting with internal customers (scientists) to understand their business requirements
- Shape systems to support evolving scientific needs
- Develop proposals to connect data from different sources to build better data insights
- Support the business in resolving technology issues and needs
- Guide scientists on how to setup their studies and assays, safeguarding consistent end to end data flows
- Safeguard data integrity and data traceability optimizations and guidance
PROFILE:
A seasoned IT person with interest in science or a scientist with interest in IT and data sciences who likes to connect and work with the scientists to improve the end to end data workflow.
1. Eligibility Criteria:
? Master Degree in either:
- Informatics
- Chemistry, biomedical, biology.
? Interest in IT technology and data sciences
? Good communication skills
? Strives for harmonization and consensus.
? Global collaboration mindset
? Good written and oral language skills (fluent in English).
2. Previous professional experience:
? Significant (1-2 years) experience in a drug discovery environment is a plus
? Data sciences/data visualization tools (eg Spotfire), python is a plus.
? Ability to communicate effectively
To make this internship attractive, our company offers the VIE intern a package of extra’s in Belgium:
– Help with finding housing: We provide email with real estate websites and local housing possibilities. No involvement in rent or other payments.
– Subscription for public bus transportation for home-work transfers
– Lunch vouchers for our cafeteria
– Access to our Campus Health Centre
– Training & Development: trainings linked to the assignment’s subject matter & associated competences.
– Participation in internal informal networks
– Holiday regime: Vie holiday days (2.5 days per month worked) + Belgian official festive holidays.