Information Architect

Make your mark for patients

To strengthen our IT Early Solutions Information Architecture team, we are looking to fill the position of Information Architect based out of either our Boston R&D Hub or our location in Raleigh, NC. This is not a remote role.

As an Information Architect , you will deliver innovative data management, integration, and streaming platforms to underpin cutting-edge drug discovery processes. Your solutions will enable data analysis, machine learning and data driven decision-making by therapeutic project teams throughout the drug discovery and early development pipeline. The skills you bring will boost a fast-moving research environment aiming to transform patients’ lives.

You like to work in an environment where you can:

• Accelerate drug discovery by delivering data platforms that expose and exploit the power of data.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams on projects spanning all aspects of drug discovery: from target discovery through early development.
• Use your technical skills to extend and enrich data management platforms to support new modalities, e.g., Gene Therapy, Proteomics, Functional Genomics and more.
• Define new data models, select appropriate technology stacks, and map new concepts into a central platform as well as Ingest and combine relevant open external data alongside UCBs proprietary data.
• Build data pipelines and algorithms to support data import, normalization, and calculations.
• Influence how scientists and IT work together – continue our adoption of FAIR data principles, Data Governance and agile development practices to deliver powerful data platforms.
  
  

You Will Contribute By

• Acting as a technical expert: deliver, maintain, and extend smart innovative data engineering solutions for a wide variety of drug discovery data pipelines – enabling UCB to exploit complex data (internal and public).
• Leading by influence through storytelling and strategizing through multi-disciplinary teams involving scientists, data scientists and IT architects to design and deliver solutions in an agile manner.
  
  

Interested? For this position, you’ll need the following education, experience, and skills:

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience managing high volume, content, and variable scientific data
• 4+ years of experience in a data/information engineering role
• 2+ years of experience within the life science industry
• Solid foundations in handling data fluidly (parse, transfer, store, edit) and building data pipelines utilising your skillset in data modelling, data warehousing and related technology (SQL/NoSQL) and ETL/ELT.
• You have solid knowledge in at least one programming language – preferably in Python, R, Scala and knowledge of Agile software development principles.
  
  

Other Qualifications

• Exposure to and usage of graph and array databases
• Usage of data streaming technologies such as Spark
• Excellent Communication skills and Stakeholder management, proactively conveying technical topics to a non-expert audience or to abstract scientific contexts when engaging with IT partners.
• You are curious and motivated, even when tackling multidisciplinary or unfamiliar projects.
• Great organizational skills and ability to multitask
  
  

Compensation Range: $135,440 to $177,765

If you are interested to learn more about IT within UCB, please find more information here IT at UCB .

Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About Us

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,800 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?

At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equitable opportunities to do their best work. We ‘go beyond’ to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that’s on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent, and adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.