Associate Director, Data Scientist

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Job Description

Associate Director, Data Scientist

The Advanced Analytics Decision Sciences team within Clinical Data Sciences is seeking an Associate Director of Data Science team focusing on capability delivery across the clinical trial portfolio for GTAI(Gilead Trails AI Program). This person will be a key member delivering on design insights, operational strategy analytics (global study feasibility) and additional capabilities for studies. In this role, the data scientist provides key thought leadership & Strategy towards how AI/ML can be leveraged to optimize clinical trials operations, improve diversity in trial recruitment, and enhance data-driven decision making in a variety of workstreams within the clinical development space. The data scientist will work directly with Design and Innovation team and clinical study teams to understand the business need, provide data & insights to study teams, and measurable impact that AI-driven and data-driven decisions can make on the speed, cost, diversity, and success of clinical trials.

The data scientist in this role is expected to be a hands-on pragmatic leader within the Decision Sciences organization in the application of AI/ML toward real-world clinical use cases and is deeply involved in all aspects of technical development of algorithms including coding packages, configuring compute environments, evaluation & review of models, and design of model architecture. The data scientist will interact with various technical roles in the clinical data sciences and clinical operations & clinical development organization including architects, data engineers, data analysts, and product managers to operationalize AI-driven applications by providing expertise in model development and operationalization. The data scientist will also interact directly with internal stakeholders in an advisory role.

Responsibilities

• Works with stakeholders in an agile project management framework to plan, design, and execute projects leveraging AI/ML.
• Works with Capability Development Owners & (Operational Strategy and Protocol Design) ,Business Process Owner and Design Directors to ensure items are delivered as per business needs.
• Provides feedback to Capability owners on capabilities that would enrich and improve the user's experience and business needs.
• Communicates bugs to System Owner.
• Delivers on needed ad hoc capabilities that aren't yet integrated into combined analytics capabilities (e.g. Patient Funnel & Geographic Ops Strat Capabilities and GenAI capabilities that will surface decisions made by governance committees).
• Real World Experience in leveraging RWD datasets to synthesize complex patient journeys and patient funnels.
• Provide thought leadership toward the development of strategic capabilities in the AI/ML space for biotechnology.
• Design and implement strategies to create the fundamental technical and business process building blocks that inform how AI/ML and analytics make an impact to clinical operations and clinical development.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build industry-leading capabilities in operational AI/ML within the way that we execute and run clinical trials.
• Work with key business operations partners in clinical operations to define operating metrics and enable predictive analytics to drive trial design and planning to meet or exceed key operations metrics.
• Plan and execute the full lifecycle of machine learning models from requirements gathering, exploratory data analysis, visualizations, model training, model evaluation, and model deployment and monitoring.
• Identify evidence required to make informed decisions from data toward use cases in R&D. Work with IT partners to gather requisite data.
• Work with IT partners to operationalize datasets required to support model development and analytics pipelines.
• Stay current on the state of the art in machine learning models within the technology and biopharmaceutical industries.
• Independently frame business questions from the perspective of data science and derive data-driven solutions.
• Design and apply advanced modeling solutions in the areas of statistical analysis, bioinformatics, data automation, data mining, machine learning and/or data visualization.
• Understand key aspects of clinical and real-world data that relate to the optimization of clinical trial conduct and execution.
• Recommend data-driven approaches to optimize clinical trials operations.
• Interface with cross-functional stakeholders in clinical operations, clinical study teams, and clinical data sciences to facilitate knowledge sharing and build shared understanding of leveraging advanced analytics to drive business improvement.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's , master's or PHD degree with extensive amount of experience in data science at biotech or technology companies.
• Degree in engineering or technology areas including but not limited to data science, software engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or similar.

Technical Skill Requirements

• Operationalization of deep learning algorithms at scale
• Understanding of model evaluation & scoring including avoidance of model bias
• Python or R, SQL
• Understanding of Cloud DevOps on AWS related to data science operations.
• Experience translating ground-up AI/ML research into functional packages to support applications.

Project Skill Requirements

• Project management skillsets
• Product management mindset and understanding
• Translating stakeholder needs into technical requirements.
• Scoping project requirements and building timelines.
• Code management using Git
• Technical documentation

Gilead Core Values

• Integrity (Doing What's Right)

• Inclusion (Encouraging Diversity)

• Teamwork (Working Together)

• Excellence (Being Your Best)

• Accountability (Taking Personal Responsibility)

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.