Data Scientist III

US-MA-Danvers         ·       Full time

Job ID: 2022-1647
Job Locations: US-MA-Danvers

Company Overview

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (CST) is a private, family owned, worldwide leader in the development and commercialization of antibodies, assays and research tools. As a company of scientists for scientists, we have developed XMT® technology, a proprietary method to develop exceptional monoclonal antibodies, PTMScan®, a technology to discover protein post-translational modifications, and PhosphoSitePlus®, an online resource for investigation of post-translational modifications. We are passionate about our role in contributing to the life science industry’s advancing of the human condition through accelerating the discovery and development of innovative therapies for human disease.  We are fully committed to developing new research tools to help define the mechanisms underlying cell function and disease, thereby broadly accelerating progress in biomedical research and medicine.

Position Summary:

The Data Scientist is a member of the IT Engineering Services team who will acquire and apply advanced analytics, statistical, and machine learning methods to CST internal and external data sets. This individual will play a key role in CST’s data-driven focus on providing actionable analytics and insight to key business questions related to CST products, customers, and business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Combine data engineering, data analytics and data science skills with robust cloud technologies to significantly impact the growth of a cutting edge, data-driven biotech
• Collaborate closely with the bio scientists and data scientists in CST’s Bioinformatics and Product Development groups
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders throughout CST’s scientific, antibody manufacturing and commercial organization
• Develop advanced data pipelining and ELTs and that will lead to new insights and novel data science capabilities
• Centralize data from best-in-class scientific and manufacturing platforms into the CST Data Lake using streaming, microservices and ETL tools
• Establish and apply metadata policies so data can be discoverable in the Data Lake Catalog for self-service BI and other uses
• Pioneer new, robust super-scalable cloud data transformations using Glue, Spark, Step Functions, Fargate and many other aws services
• Connect disparate data into knowledge graphs in the Data Lake using Neo4j Graph database and Cypher
• Track and persist data lineage in the Data Lake so that the evolution of data can be easily understood and communicated
• Create data visualizations from the Lake using best-in-class data visualization tools including Tableau and Linkurious
• Help steer and grow our Cloud Data Lake and Big Data Connection Platform and its DevOps
• Take part in the growth of the company’s Data Science capability, best practices and work standards

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum 4 years professional work experience demonstrating proficiency in the following areasWorking with large data sets & meta data models

• • Data preparation and integration
  • Writing SQL queries
  • Building complex data analyses using languages such as Python or a related scripting language
  • Leveraging machine learning models
  • Programming: Python, UNIX , cloud computing
  • Visualization: Tableau or AWS QuickSight
  • Versioning: git or equivalent
  • Relational Database: SQL (Oracle, mySQL)Proficient in multiple technologies, including:
  • Cloud Compute: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google BigQuery

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree preferred
• Intimate, enthusiastic knowledge of Data Engineering, Analytics, BI, and data visualization
• Embraces Data Science and leverage of Data Science tools to speed up getting to insights
• Experience with Python, relational databases, Mongo, query languages, Elasticsearch and cloud-based Data Lake technology
• Excitement about “Big Data” technology and data science, especially as applied to scientific and manufacturing pipelines
• Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders at different levels of seniority
• Ability to distill and effectively manage information and align strategy of Data Engineering to the functional and company goals
• Able to work both in a team and independently, to deliver results
• Good attention to detail and an ability to analyze and use data in decision making
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills with ability to balance competing priorities
• Willing to take initiative and create progress even on unfamiliar ground, or with ambiguous requirements
• Prior experience with various technologies, such as:
  • Graph Database: neo4j
  • NoSQL Database, like MongoDB
  • Graph Visualization: Linkurious
  • Commercial Platforms: LIMS, ELN
  • Cloud DevOps: Cloud Formation, Github Actions
  • Data science tools

What we offer….

At Cell Signaling Technology (CST) we recognize that people will always be our most important asset. Providing a safe, inclusive, and stimulating working environment that understands the importance of diversity, human dignity and meaningful work is as important as establishing company policies that incorporate excellent health insurance and pay benefits. We recognize that development of people is the key to their happiness and thus ensure every employee has impactful discussions with their manager and develops actionable performance and professional development plans. Lastly, we are committed to engaging and supporting our employees in committees and philanthropy that benefit their local communities and environment through community investment programs.

Benefits

• Medical (BCBS) and Dental (Delta Dental) plans paid at 90%
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability
• Flexible Spending accounts
• 401(k) Plan with 6% match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Generous PTO package
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Onsite Subsidized Cafeteria
• Free Parking

Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees, their families, our communities, partners and customers. In order to promote that safety and well-being, we require that all US-based employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by their start date. Applicants who receive an offer of employment who can provide documentation that the vaccine is medically contraindicated, or who object to vaccination due to a sincerely held religious belief, may make a request for exemption. We will consider requests for reasonable accommodations consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the company.

Cell Signaling Technology (CST) is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, status as a veteran or as a member of the military or status in any group protected by applicable federal or state laws.

Agencies

All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Cell Signaling Technology® (CST®) via email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of CST®, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by CST® for this position and a valid agreement with CST® is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the CST® agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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