Data Scientist

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Organization Overview:

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Our 39,000 employees worldwide work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

The Medicines Innovation Hub (MIH) strives to discover, develop, and deliver creative medicines to patients through the development and commercialization of insulins, small molecules, monoclonal antibodies, novel therapeutic proteins, peptides, oligonucleotide therapies and gene therapy systems. This organization is a multidisciplinary group that works collaboratively with therapeutic business units and manufacturing to deliver the incredibly exciting Lilly clinical portfolio to patients around the world. This group drives innovation in the process development and product design through the efficient combination of domain expertise coupled with lab experimentation, computational modeling, automation, data sciences, and data rich experimentation.

The Lilly Capability Centre India (LCCI) located in Bengaluru India is a strategic investment made by Lilly to attract top talent from the vibrant academic and professional environment in India and deploy them to develop and enable critical capabilities for Lilly. The LCCI group in India houses a MIH team that works closely with the MIH team in Indianapolis in enabling the delivery of Lilly’s portfolio.

Job Description

The data scientist will be responsible for transforming data and information captured within legacy systems into value-added insights and actionable business decisions. Candidates must demonstrate a history of strong technical depth, a broad base of modeling and information technology skills, scientific leadership, and a willingness to promote a collaborative, team-based approach to problem solving. Specifically, the candidate will have experience in the following areas:

• Identify opportunities where data science can enhance and accelerate decision-making, create, and execute the plan to answer the business question.
• Experience in working with different data types and source systems as well as interfacing databases to enable extracting relevant data to address business questions.
• Experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to be able to use the right tool for the right question.
• Ability to communicate the results of analysis in an effective manner to stakeholders to drive action

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with partners across PR&D to identify decisions that can be informed by data science approaches. 
• Apply the right data science tool/methodology to inform and influence decisions.
• Build decision support tools, templates, dashboards for high frequency decisions that can leverage analytics.
• Develop tools/algorithms to mine patterns in existing data to create a recommendation on future questions to consider.
• Integrate data science capabilities with knowledge management

Educational Requirements: 

PhD with 0-5 years experience or B.S/M.S. in a quantitative discipline (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations

Research,) with 2-10 years industry experience in data science

Experience Requirements: 

• Experience in working with varied data types (structured and unstructured) and databases
• Experience in programming in scripting languages including R and Python with exposure to other platforms as a plus (i.e., Perl)
• Experience in using existing statistics/machine learning tools and ability to implement custom algorithms as needed.
• Experience in natural language processing tasks/algorithms.
• Experience with visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI, Spotfire)
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills to collaborate with technology implementation partners and drive to solutions with an Agile mindset

Additional Information:

• Familiarity with big data technologies (Azure/AWS) is preferred.
• Web development skills (html, javascript, web frameworks) are not formally required but a working knowledge may be useful to the position
• CMC development knowledge desired but not required.
• Successful interaction with senior engineering and scientific personnel
• Limited international travel (2 – 4%) will be required.
• Work hours flexibility to accommodate collaboration across multiple time zones

• Location-Bengaluru India

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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