Associate Scientist, II Informatics

AbbVie's 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 people's 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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose:

Independently generate precise, reliable and reproducible data in a timely manner. Demonstrate experimental precision and strong data interpretation skills and should possess understanding of core discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Perform routine tasks competently and independently, and generate reliable and consistent results.

• Analyze and critique results, noting significant deviations.

• Learn and understand new experimental techniques.

• Demonstrate skill in multiple techniques and appropriately modify protocols, as required, to suit the changing needs of research or development sciences.

• Demonstrate technical proficiency in his/her field.

• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, and safet

• Creates peptide array designs by converting scientist requests into a precise and complete array design

• Communicates with design requesters to understand their precise intentions, provides guidance on requesting designs, and conveys output of design requests

• Reviews array designs for accuracy and completeness

• Follows guidelines for creating and reviewing designs and communicating design completion to team members. Documents steps taken to complete a design.

• Contributes to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimize design processes and software

• Follows best practices for code version control and documentation

• Acquires / maintains informatics and computing knowledge base

• Contributes toward writing documentation and performing data analysis/processing

• Runs data analysis / processing software and pipelines to analyze data

• Modifies existing scripts, or writes new scripts to solve data analysis problems

• Documents data analysis methods

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent education, with typically 3 or more years' experience or Master's Degree or equivalent education (no additional experience.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge to carry out job function.
• Experience in computer scripting / programming (e.g. python and shell)
• Experience with workflow management systems (e.g. JIRA) to collaborate with a team and share status updates
• Experience working in Linux systems
• Ability to follow documentation to run a data analysis pipeline
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of biochemistry a major plus
• Knowledge of git and code version control practices
• Experience managing software virtual environments, and interpreting written instructions to setup, run, and compile software
• Ability to conduct independent research and evaluation of software and technologies

Additional Information

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