11 days ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain R packages supporting data engineering, statistical analyses, automation, and clinical reporting workflows.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain Shiny applications for interactive dashboards and data exploration.
- Collaborate with statistical programmers, statisticians, clinical reporting teams, and Product Owners to define and implement efficient, reproducible solutions.
- Apply AI and agentic approaches responsibly to product design, development workflows, and data-driven applications.
- Drive adoption of tooling through demonstrations, pilots, training, documentation, and support.
- Identify opportunities for user-experience improvement and modernization across the clinical reporting lifecycle.
- Promote software development and data science best practices, including documentation and rigorous testing.
- Engage with open-source communities and external collaborations.
Requirements
- MSc in a quantitative or computational science or equivalent.
- Experience as an R developer.
- Deep knowledge of data manipulation with tidyverse and data visualization with ggplot2 and plotly.
- Experience developing production-grade R packages with comprehensive documentation and rigorous testing frameworks.
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining R applications in production environments.
- High proficiency in Shiny application development and deployment.
- Deep experience with software development best practices, virtual environments, git, CI/CD, and code review.
- Hands-on experience applying AI and agentic approaches to improve developer productivity for data-driven applications.
- Good written English and a solution-oriented, collaborative approach.
- Desirable: understanding of drug development and regulatory requirements for computer systems and tools.
- Desirable: knowledge of Quarto, workflow automation, or metadata-driven reporting.
- Desirable: participation in pharmaceutical-sector open-source projects such as R Consortium, pharmaverse, openpharma, or openstatware.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of €63,490.00–€117,910.00 EUR.
- Performance-based bonus eligibility may apply.
- Insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
- Flexible and hybrid working options where possible; the role is based in Dublin, Ireland and does not offer relocation support.
- Minimum 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Benefits and compensation vary by country and local legal requirements.
About Novartis
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki