Principal Scientist, Data Science; Data Products, Integration & Analysis

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Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Data Science

Scientific/Technology

• Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
• Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
• Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

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The Principal Scientific Data Scientist will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scientific data products and integration strategies supporting AI‑enabled drug discovery and development.

This individual will be responsible for creating scalable, interoperable, and AI‑ready data products that connect discovery, preclinical, clinical, safety, and real‑world evidence domains, and enable the creation of validated‑biomarker data assets. The role will establish the data architecture, integration strategy, metadata framework, and productization approach needed to support semantic reasoning, knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, advanced analytics, and agentic AI applications.

Working closely with scientific stakeholders, knowledge architects, AI engineers, and Amazon Bio Discovery platform teams, this individual will define the future‑state scientific data ecosystem and ensure high‑quality data products are delivered to support translational science and patient safety initiatives.

Build AI reasoning models to support data‑driven translational safety decision making.

Build and operationalize AI‑ready scientific data products that enable seamless integration, harmonization, and reuse of data across the drug discovery and development lifecycle.

• Discovery Research
• Translational Science
• Preclinical Safety
• Clinical Development
• Pharmacovigilance
• Real‑World Evidence
• Establish reusable, scalable data products that support analytics, AI, knowledge graph, and scientific reasoning use cases.
• Develop product roadmaps aligned with organizational priorities and scientific objectives.

• Design integration frameworks connecting heterogeneous scientific data sources.
• Define data harmonization strategies spanning:
  • SEND
  • SDTM
  • ADaM
  • MedDRA
  • Imaging
  • Omics
  • Biomarker
  • Pathology
  • Real‑world data
• Create architecture patterns supporting cross‑domain data interoperability.

• Define the implementation strategy for scientific data products deployed on AWS.
• Partner with Amazon engineering and deployed platform resources to deliver scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for implementation activities aligned recommendations from the Data Strategy group.
• Ensure digital solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and AI‑readiness requirements.

• In collaboration with Data Strategy group, lead design and implementation of:
  • Curated datasets
  • Semantic‑ready data…