Data Scientist - VIE Contract (W/M)

Job description

iMove, the Sanofi VIE Program, is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide.

Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered.

We are looking for a candidate for a VIE mission of:

Data Scientist - VIE Contract (W/M)

Job Overview:

Data Scientist will execute advanced computational approaches to accelerate and optimize evidence-based pharmaceutical product development. He/she will leverage high-dimensional population health data to support Sanofi therapeutic area evidentiary needs. He/she will contribute to the insights required by Sanofi internal teams to develop and to commercialize the most impactful medicines.

Job Responsibilities:

·  Get to apply a broad array of capabilities spanning machine learning, statistics, text-mining/NLP (Natural Language Processing) and modeling to extract insights to structured and unstructured healthcare data sources, pre-clinical, clinical trial and complementary real-world information streams
·  Work on a variety of team-based projects providing expertise in analytical and computational approaches
·  Work with the latest tools and technologies to impact drug development
·  Design and implement data models, perform statistical analysis and create predictive analysis models
·  Leverage analytics involving large datasets to refine and improve data models

Requirements:

·  Relevant Master's Degree, with at least 1 of relevant industry experience, or Master's degree with relevant skills and experience
·  Experience with open source technologies, ML (Machine Learning) libraries, and programming languages (e.g. R, python)
·  Experience with advanced ML techniques (e.g. neural networks/deep learning, reinforcement learning, SVM - Support Vector Machine, PCA - Principal Component Analysis, etc.)
·  An ability to interact with a variety of large-scale data structures e.g. HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) , SQL, noSQL
·  Experience working across multiple compute environments to create workflows and pipelines (e.g. HPC - High-Performance Computing, cloud, linux systems)
·  Strong oral and written communication skills; a demonstrated ability to work and collaborate in a team environment
·  Fluent English
·  Experience with reproducible and collaborative technology platforms (e.g. github, containers, jupyter notebooks)
·  Experience with big data analytics platforms and/or workflow tools
·  Exposure to NLP technologies and analyses
·  Knowledge of some dataviz technologies (ggplot2, shiny, plotly, d3, Qlik)
·  Preferred experience with any of the following: biomedical data types/population health data/real world data/novel data streams

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.