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  • [Photo] Tim Ellerbrock • May 20, 2011

    BACKGROUND

    Pfizer Inc: Working together for a healthier world

    Founded in 1849, Pfizer is the world's premier biopharmaceutical company taking new approaches to better health. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver quality, safe and effective prescription medicines to treat and help prevent disease for both people and animals. We also partner with healthcare providers, governments and local communities around the world to expand access to our medicines and to provide better quality health care and health system support. At Pfizer, colleagues in more than 90 countries work every day to help people stay happier and healthier longer and to reduce the human and economic burden of disease worldwide.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Develop and manage workflows surrounding the organization, integration, curation, quality, and exploitation of internal and external content within the pharmaceutical research domain.

    Primary Duties include:
    • Internalization of public and proprietary datasets.
    • Developing and implementing quality assurance process and documentation for internalization of data.
    • Manage workflow of internalisation, parsing, data manipulation/mapping to vocabularies and database loading
    • Creates algorithms to manipulate multiple datasets to integrate content, either in batch or "live" modes
    • Front line customer support. Works with customers to identify data needs/issues and supply/change as required in a timely manner.
    • Supports a limited number of larger, more involved projects providing scientific advice and technical implementation
    • Develops and maintains vocabularies and ontologies and cross mapping tools to connect text & keywords to identifiers
    • Partners with Other BT and Research lines on establishment and maintenance of standard vocabularies and ontologies for Research
    Secondary duties include:
    • Deployment of ad-hoc & custom web tools without supervision
    • Consumes and develops common web services to interact with internal data

    REQUIREMENTS

    Education - MS (PhD preferred) in Biological Science, Bioinformatics, or Biotechnology

    Experience - in industry or applied science preferable, experience in creating and maintaining ontologies highly desireable

    Required Skills: Bioinformatics Analysis experience; SQL & ETL; File management & Parsing (SRS, XML, RDF) vocabulary management and text extraction; algorithm development; ability to relate technology solutions to scientific problems; knowledge of basic concepts in pharmaceutical research;

    PREFERENCES

    Additional Skills desired: Perl/Python; Web/Cgi programming; knowledge of webservice protocols, Unix command line; Experience in data federation via web-services and or federation tools such as composite an advantage

    LOCALE

    Cambridge, MA 02140

    COMPENSATION

    Salary commensurate with experience

    HOW TO APPLY

    http://posttrak.arbita.net/cgi-bin/PostTrak.cgi?RefCode=R1074477509852

    POLICY

    Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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