Senior Data Scientist Locations: Barcelona, Mississauga, Gothenburg, Gaithersburg Competitive Salary & Benefits package Make a more meaningful impact to patients\xe2\x80\x99 lives around the globe Here you\xe2\x80\x99ll have the chance to create a meaningful difference to patients\xe2\x80\x99 lives. With science at its heart, this is the place where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicines \xe2\x80\x93 for the world\xe2\x80\x99s most sophisticated diseases. At AstraZeneca, we\xe2\x80\x99re not afraid to do things differently. We\xe2\x80\x99re building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we\xe2\x80\x99re opening up new ways to work, pioneering ground breaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Data Scientists in the Data Science & Advanced Analytics (DS&AA) team work directly with our partners in therapy areas to deliver insight from clinical trial data. Working with clinical, translational and biometrics teams, we use machine learning, predictive modelling, and visualisation to support delivery of our clinical trial pipeline across early and late phases of development, including:

• Study planning and development: using prognostic models to identify patients most likely to have an event / progress to inform inclusion and exclusion criteria for recruitment
• In-stream clinical studies: using exploratory data science to identify subgroups of patients
• Post-hoc meta-analysis: using legacy clinical trial data to inform clinical development strategies in existing or new indications
• Our projects have direct impact on the development pipeline and our insights make valuable contributions to AstraZeneca. Through this we are able to have a direct impact on transforming patients\xe2\x80\x99 lives by accelerating new medicines to those most in need.

As a Senior Data Scientist within the team, your key responsibilities will be:

• Deliver data science and machine learning projects to address specific clinically driven questions
• Regular meetings with internal customers to promote discussion and adapt analyses to enable new insights based on findings
• Clearly and objectively communicate results, as well as their associated uncertainties and limitations
• Develop, test, implement and refine methods with a software engineering approach
• Collaborate with a diverse range of partners, enabling effective consensus, conflict resolution and alignment to project goals

Essential requirements

• PhD or equivalent experience in statistics, mathematics, computer science, the physical sciences or related subject
• Demonstrated knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry or relevant field
• Track record of collaborating successfully with customers and delivery of impactful data science projects
• Experienced in Python

Why we love it If your passion is science and you want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients\xe2\x80\x99 lives, then there\xe2\x80\x99s no better place to be. Here we truly understand science and apply it every day to strengthen and grow our pipeline. So, what\xe2\x80\x99s next?

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can\xe2\x80\x99t wait to hear from you!
• Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it\xe2\x80\x99s yours.

This role opens on the 4th April, and we welcome your application no later than the 18th April 2023.