Job Description

### Summary

Novartis Biomedical Research (BR) is the global pharmaceutical research organization of Novartis. With approximately 5,400 scientists and physicians around the world, our research is focused on discovering innovative new drugs that will change the practice of medicine. We have an open and entrepreneurial culture, encouraging collaboration to make effective therapies. At BR, our mission is to discover innovative medicines that treat disease and human health. To do that, our scientists need cutting-edge, state-of-the-art computing systems and high-quality data. With BR - Research Informatics (RX), BR is making a strategic investment into informatics capabilities and is positioning itself to deliver the systems, data, and services that are critical to the future of drug discovery. The Scientific Data and Products (SDP) group in RX is driven to maximize the impact and value of software and data for BR. We deliver powerful, functional, and integrated software solutions that create a frictionless user experience. Our organization is here to build and apply excellence in product and data management to further Novartis drug discovery.
### About the Role


Major responsibilities

• Act as a broadly experienced specialist who creates and maintain or select and internalize controlled vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies using semantic web technologies and linked data principles in multiple areas: cell biology, genomics and proteomics, taxonomy (species) etc.
• Collaborate actively in the design and the implementation of automated extraction, conversion and/or aggregation of data from selected sources to build terminology and ontology content
• May coordinate the activities of a team of experienced specialists contributing to ontology authoring and engineering
• Provide dictionaries derived from controlled vocabularies and terminologies to support text extraction and named entity recognition
• Follow methods and procedures to apply data governance principles to manage ontologies and to guaranty high quality and data consistency across versions
• Contribute to the implementation of a solution to enable contextual usage of ontologies and facilitate requests for ontology enrichment and/or ontology composition within scientific products
• Raise awareness of the use of controlled vocabularies, ontologies and data management best practices to leverage interoperability of data and metadata
• Interact with BR scientists, business analysts, and product owners to provide guidance in integrating appropriate ontologies
• Promote use of underlying ontology services


Essential Requirements:


You are curious about data and passionate about extremely high data quality. You have managed scientific data, provisioned vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies, are knowledgeable about semantics, ontology management tools, approaches, and evolving technologies that improve data value and interoperability.

• Practical experience in ontological authoring & engineering e.g. ontology development process, ontology life cycle, methodologies and tools such as CENtree (SciBite)
• Deep understanding of one or more drug discovery data domains such as biology, chemistry, or medicine
• Good knowledge of semantic web standards (RDF, SKOS, OWL, OBO) as well as linked data principles
• Experience with existing biomedical ontologies and data standards (Cellosaurus, Cell Ontology, Gene Ontology, HGNC, Uniprot, NCBI ...)
• Competence in linguistics, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining or text processing
• Ability to query data management systems of different kind: RDBMS, NoSQL, Graph databases (Neo4J, Allegrograph)
• A track record of consistent, rapid, structured and effective execution with good attention to detail
• Great communication skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work both independently and with a team


Desirable Requirement:

• Ph.D. and/or M.D. or equivalent in biology, medicine, chemistry, or related field
• At least 3 years experience in semantic technologies, ontology management and data management
• 5+ years work experience in drug discovery or a core supporting scientific field


Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our


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Division
Biomedical Research
Business Unit
Pharma Research
Location
India
Site
Hyderabad (Office)
Company / Legal Entity
IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited
Functional Area
Research & Development
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No


Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.