U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Jobs

Description

Who is USP?

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world's top authorities in health and science to develop quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. USP's fundamental belief that Equity = Excellence manifests in our core value of Passion for Quality through our more than 1,300 hard-working professionals across twenty global locations to deliver the mission to strengthen the supply of safe, quality medicines and supplements worldwide.

At USP, we value inclusivity for all. We recognize the importance of building an organizational culture with meaningful opportunities for mentorship and professional growth. From the standards we create, the partnerships we build, and the conversations we foster, we affirm the value of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in building a world where everyone can be confident of quality in health and healthcare.

USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment in all aspects of our work—an environment where every employee feels fully empowered and valued irrespective of, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, physical and mental abilities, education, religion, gender identity, and expression, life experience, sexual orientation, country of origin, regional differences, work experience, and family status. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.

Brief Job Overview

The Associate Data Engineer position is a hands-on non-supervisory role within the Data Strategy & Analytics team. The position is an individual contributor role that will serve support analytics teams by designing, building, and executing efficient and governed data pipelines, finding, and developing data assets, and across USP to support data processes used in reporting and analytics. Activities include basic data cleaning, wrangling, data extractions and transformations, and data load processes. The incumbent must be proficient in python and SQL to perform data operations to extract data from files (xml), websites, databases, and webservices.

How will YOU create impact here at USP?

In this role at USP, you contribute to USP's public health mission of increasing equitable access to high-quality, safe medicine and improving global health through public standards and related programs. In addition, as part of our commitment to our employees, Global, People, and Culture, in partnership with the Equity Office, regularly invests in the professional development of all people managers. This includes training in inclusive management styles and other competencies necessary to ensure engaged and productive work environments.

The Associate Data Engineer has the following responsibilities:

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements in the pharmaceutical domain.

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture for pharmaceutical data.

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Work with stakeholders including the Strategy, Pricing, Analytics, RPO, and IT teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

• Collaborate with IT and data strategy team to integrate data warehouse, analytics applications, and data science platforms.

• Support transition to agile approaches for data asset development and deployment.

• Support transition to a SDLC approach to data asset and data science product development and deployment

• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and practices in the pharmaceutical industry.

Who is USP Looking For?

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated understanding of our mission, commitment to excellence through inclusive and equitable behaviors and practices, ability to quickly build credibility with stakeholders, along with the following competencies and experience:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree (computer science, data analytics/science program, or other program requiring basic coding skills).

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data science, advanced analytics, machine learning, or similar role (excluding classwork this can be combination of work, work study, and/or internship).

• Experience with data extraction and scraping.

• Experience with typical python packages such as numpy, pandas, requests, beautifulsoup4, regex, and selenium.

• Experience with XML documents and DOM model.

• Intermediate knowledge of regular expressions.

• Proficiency in SQL.

Additional Desired Preferences

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical area.

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and complex projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience with SDLC and Agile work environments.

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Deployment) software development approach.

• Substantial experience with Git for version control Concepts of good coding practices, writing scalable vectorized code.

• Prior experience in a scientific based industry or related content area a plus (pharma, life sciences, public health, research, etc.).

• Experience with Apache Spark and or PySpark.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None.

Benefits

USP provides the benefits to protect yourself and your family today and tomorrow. From company-paid time off, and comprehensive healthcare options to retirement savings, you can have peace of mind that your personal and financial well-being is protected.

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy (will apply to the selected candidate(s) hired):

As a condition of employment with the United States Pharmacopeial Convention's (USP) duty to provide and maintain a workplace free of known hazards, all employees and contingent staff hired after July 1st, 2021, must be fully vaccinated unless a reasonable accommodation is approved. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

Note: USP does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies and is not responsible for fees from recruiters or other agencies except under specific written agreement with USP.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Category Information Technology

Job Type Full-Time