Senior Data Scientist, Healthcare Analytics

Gothenburg (Sweden), Macclesfield (UK), Barcelona (Spain), Mississauga (Canada)

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe.

Here you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to patients’ lives.

With science at its heart, this is the place where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicines – for the world’s most complex diseases. Answer unmet medical needs by pioneering the next wave of science, focusing on outcomes and shaping the patient ecosystem.

At AstraZeneca, we work together to deliver innovative medicines to patients across global boundaries. We make an impact and find solutions to challenges where the answer is not obvious. We do this with integrity, even in the most demanding situations, because we are committed to doing the right thing.

We are looking for an Senior Data Scientist to join our Healthcare Analytics team within Biopharmaceuticals R&D Data Science & Advanced Analytics group.

We focus on developing and applying innovative, data driven solution, to some of the hardest problems in R&D. Our team of data scientists, Real World Evidence experts, and bioinformaticians work right next to leading clinicians and scientists, allowing us to be close to the questions that matter . Our work informs critical decisions in R&D and we have direct impact in transforming patients' lives by accelerating access to new medicines to those most in need.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will apply your expertise in analytical methods that support disease understanding, assess treatment pathways and unmet need, and optimize drug development programs using Real World Data.

You will work closely with drug project teams to inform critical business decisions and identify opportunities where Real World Data can have a significant impact in accelerating drug development. You will be a subject matter expert in cross functional projects and mentor junior team members.

Examples of projects that team works on are:

• Use Real World data to optimise clinical development programs

• Evaluate unmet medical need in patient population and compare diagnostic and treatment pathways

• Create novel methods to understand disease progression, risk factors, and predict outcomes of interest

• Assess generalizability of clinical trials and contextualise results in real world patient population

• Research and develop machine learning models on Real World Data to identify biomarkers and further our understanding of disease

Essential for the role

• BSc or MSc in a Life Science, Computer Science or equivalent experience

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential.

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering innovative methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

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