Senior Lead, NLP Data Engineering

For over 100 years we have been driving change to defeat diabetes, but we know that what got us here today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We are now transforming our business and taking our expertise into new territories including obesity and rare blood and endocrine diseases.  

Our story is one of incredible growth and success, which has culminated in receiving many prestigious awards, such as Best Places to Work and Vitality – Britain’s Healthiest Workplace.

The Position

As the Senior Lead within NLP Data Engineering, you will lead and oversee our data foundation and data engineering activities. You will be the overall responsible for our NLP data factory and data foundation to support Scientific Intelligence and relevant parts of Digital Science & Innovation with external published literature and patents, who will oversee the design, development, and maintenance of data infrastructure and pipelines within the scope of Scientific Intelligence NLP activities.

As part of your role, you will also:
•    Design and implement robust, scalable and secure data architectures 
•    Establish and orchestrate coding standards, and data engineering best practices, together with evaluating and recommending new tools, frameworks and technologies 
•    Lead data engineering team, allocate tasks, and resolve technical challenges 
•    Work closely with the data engineers, NLP scientists and information scientists to ensure a robust data foundation to support the needs of our research scientist 
•    Collaborate with research scientists to understand business needs to accelerate decision making 

It is an individual contributor role; however, it entails project and team management, including managing multiple projects timelines, deliverables and team resources. An innovation and continuous improvement mindset are needed to be aligned with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. 

The role is based out of London, with 2-3 days of office presence required. 

Qualifications

We are searching for a highly communicative and motivated individual with stakeholder management skills who holds a Masters’ degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related fields and has several years of industry experience, preferably in biotech and/or pharma, together with experience in machine learning pipelines and working with AI/ML team.

Main valued skills are:
•    Solid experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)
•    Hands-on experience with data and solutions engineering of NLP data products and pipelines working with multimodal and/or multilingual language models 
•    Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
•    Profound knowledge of Deep Learning methods applied to NLP and strong experience with NLP and ML technologies 
•    Demonstrated strong track record of developing and applying NLP solutions on large text, preferably literature data
•    Demonstrated ability to manage large-scale data engineering projects
•    Proven experience leading data-, MLOps-, and/or LLMOps engineers collaborating with cross-functional teams 

About the Department

You will join 18 dedicated colleagues within the Novo Nordisk Scientific Intelligence department, a global team which offers a centralised hub of external information as well as NLP tools and technologies to extract scientific insights to research scientists in the Research & Early Development area of Novo Nordisk.

Our purpose is to provide modern digital solutions to the research organisation and to ensure that research scientists have seamless access to quality information sources, state of the art technologies and professional information research tools supporting their needs in idea maturation, hypothesis validation, and increased disease and landscape understanding. 

Scientific Intelligence is a part of a research area, Data & Knowledge Discovery (DKD), established to provide a modern data and knowledge excellence, drive external collaborations and access to emerging technologies in the digital space of drug discovery.

Data & Knowledge Discovery (DKD) is part of Digital Science & Innovation (DSI), established to drive digitalisation across Research & Early Development. DSI participates in drug development projects across the value chain, from early discovery to pre-clinical development.

Working at Novo Nordisk 

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

What We Offer

•    Bonus: We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
•    Your workplace: Our offices will be your primary workplace but with flexibility to work 2-3 days at home during your working week. 
•    Pension: a market leading pension scheme with generous employer contributions
•    Wellness: We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to an award-winning Wellness programme, including Private Medical Insurance.
•    Insurances: All colleagues are covered by our private medical, life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
•    Inclusive culture: our culture is one of care, support and respect for our people.  We are committed to making your workplace safe and believe that a transparent, inclusive culture and leadership is the way to empower every individual to do their very best.

Application Support 

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 
If you're a person with a disability, if you're neurodivergent, and need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please send an email to akrw@novonordisk.com. Please include your name, the role you are interested in and the type of adjustment you need.  

Contact

Please submit your application via our careers site, as unfortunately we do not accept directly sent resumes. 

Deadline 

Please apply by 1st December 2024. 

We encourage you to apply early, as we engage with candidates on an ongoing basis.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.