Senior Scientist I- Preclinical Safety Data System Owner

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience, as well as products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Job Description

The PCS Data System Owner is an expert in PCS data systems as they are applied to PCS workflows and dataflows. He/she will partner with Information Research, data system vendors and contract staff/consultants to develop workflow templates, custom fields & calculations and other functionality in Core Enterprise Data Systems (e.g., Prestima, Ponemah, SEND, etc.) to support PCS business needs. The role serves as the voice of scientists and Dev Sci system users regarding system issues and enhancements required to enable current and new data and digital capabilities, provides system user training to support new system implementations and upgrades, and helps scientists troubleshoot data system issues to enable and improve PCS workflows and data flows.

• Supports user requirements engineering in partnership with PCS functions; consults regarding suitability of a given business platform (“as‑is”, “enhanced”) and “buy vs. build” decisions in alignment with the over‑arching PCS data‑ and systems architecture.
• Closely interacts with business platform vendors (together with BTS / IR IT System Owner) and keeps up to date with new developments; responsible for life cycle management (update, upgrade, enhancement) of a given business platform from a functional perspective.
• Demonstrates the ability to resolve key project hurdles and assumptions by effectively utilizing available information and technical expertise.
• Understands and adheres to corporate standards of data integrity, data system validation, and information security as appropriate.
• Maintains a strong expertise across multiple core PCS business platform systems to maximize impact & flexibility of the team.
• Drives use of Agile methodology to ensure efficient systems and applications development that puts prototype solutions into the hands of PCS scientists with rapid iteration of further enhancements.
• May mentor/supervise a team of one or more contractors; is accountable for the effective performance of the team/individuals.

Actively participates in communities and user groups outside of AbbVie to learn best practices from vendors and industry peers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10 years of experience.
• Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 8 years of experience.
• PhD and typically 0 years of experience.

Benefits

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Equal Opportunity Employer

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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