11 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain production-grade R packages for clinical trial data engineering, statistical analysis, automation, and reporting.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain Shiny applications for interactive dashboards and data exploration.
- Collaborate with statisticians, statistical programmers, clinical reporting teams, and Product Owners to translate requirements into reproducible tools.
- Apply AI and agentic approaches responsibly to product design, development workflows, and data-driven applications.
- Drive tooling adoption through demos, pilots, training, documentation, and support.
- Identify opportunities to improve user experience, modernize workflows, and promote software development best practices.
- Engage with open-source communities and document tools and processes.
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 practices including 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 collaborative, solution-oriented approach.
- Desirable: understanding of the drug development process and regulatory requirements for computer systems and tools.
- Desirable: knowledge of Quarto, workflow automation, or metadata-driven reporting.
- Desirable: participation in pharmaceutical open-source projects such as R Consortium, pharmaverse, openpharma, or openstatware.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of £57,050.00–£105,950.00.
- 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 London, UK, and remote working will be considered.
- Minimum 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
- No relocation support is offered for this role.
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