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Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.
Bristol Myers Squibb Ireland
Bristol Myers Squibb has been in operation in Ireland since 1964, employing over 650 people across a range of activities and business units.
Ireland is home to External manufacturing’s global headquarters, the business unit responsible for the management of manufacturing contract operations (CMO’s) and ensuring reliable supply of product to patients across the Bristol Myers Squibb global network.
This includes management of, and working in conjunction with, third party contract manufacturers and internal manufacturing sites. In Ireland, External Manufacturing has two sites; Global Headquarters based in Dublin 15 and a distribution centre in Shannon, Co Clare.
For more information about Bristol Myers Squibb, visit us at BMS.com/ie
Position Summary
The Supply Chain and Cell Therapy Data Enablement team within Business Insights and Technology (BI&T) partners with the Bristol Myers Squibb GPS organization to design, develop, and operationalize priority data products along with building AI/Gen AI, and Decision Intelligence capabilities. We focus on answering key business questions that will drive prioritized business decisions using advanced AI capabilities. The GPS organization at Bristol Myers Squibb supports drug development from discovery through commercialization and distribution to patients. Their scope includes portfolio strategy, manufacturing and supply chain, network strategy, brand analytics, drug substance, drug product, and analytical development for small molecules, biologics, and cell therapy assets. In support of GPS Strategy, the Data Product Solution Architect will be driving the design, architecture and implementation of foundational data products aimed at solving real-world GPS problems. This is a critical role for driving impactful data-driven solutions, enabling efficient decision-making, and ensuring seamless integration of advanced analytics and AI into operational workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Architectural Design and Technology Selection
Drive the architectural design and implementation of foundational data products to address global challenges in Product Development, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain operations, improving efficiency and accelerating outcomes.
Solution architect to design and model new data enablement projects to enable data scientists to get insights from data.
Architect scalable enterprise data lake and analytics solutions using AWS managed services that support the diverse data requirements.
Gather business requirements and come up with design models for data products.
Architect scalable, end-to-end frameworks to enable seamless integration and management of ML models, advanced analytics, and AI-powered solutions.
Leverage data engineering expertise to design and implement robust data pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data from diverse sources into cloud environments.
Implement serverless and distributed computing solutions to support data workflows and analytics requirements.
Technical point of contact for AWS services and help/support technical teams to resolve technical issues.
Optimize cloud resource utilization and costs while ensuring performance and scalability for data workloads.
Review code built by technical team, provide code review feedback, fix issues in the code.
Build Data Products using AWS cloud services (ie Glue Studio, S3, Athena,Redshift, Lambda, DataZone etc…)
Own and maintain git repositories for code base.
Translate business objectives into strategic architectural solutions, aligning technical direction with organizational goals and digital transformation efforts.
Develop and implement sustainable, reusable design patterns and best practices for enterprise-wide adoption.
Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies, balancing open-source and commercial solutions while ensuring compatibility with existing infrastructure.
Ensure consistent quality and timeliness in the delivery of data products, proactively managing both planned initiatives and ad hoc requests.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
Work with BIT teams (US, EU, India) to develop, implement and enforce best practices in building scalable and reusable data products and collaborate with team to deliver on pipeline projects.
Contribute to implementing best practices relating to Software Engineering, DevOps, and DataOps.
Engage a broader community to help educate stakeholders on the use of data products to drive business value and widespread adoption.
Supports a culture of analytics and fact-based decision making through the utilization of standard methodologies and approaches.
Understands, demonstrates, and drives adherence to all BMS operating policies. Consistently demonstrates the BMS values while partnering with stakeholders.
The role could expand over time to include a wider range of applications, including in areas such as decision intelligence, and AI.
Qualifications & Experience
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in information technology field in developing AWS cloud native data lakes and ecosystems.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, or equivalent is preferred.
Hands on experience in building data products using AWS services, DBT, Databricks etc…
Experience with cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, Domino Data Lab etc.)
Significant experience with work information process tools (JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS suites) and data-related tools (Oracle, Redshift, PostgreSQL, CDP Impala, Athena).
Hands-on expertise in Python and SQL
Expert with Github.
Excellent communications and presentation skills. Proven ability to explain complex analyses and outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to architect analytic and data science solutions.
Experience in working in geographically dispersed teams and virtual collaboration.
Experience
Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, team building, and communication skills to ensure effective collaborations within matrix teams.
Exceptional analytical skills with substantial knowledge of data engineering.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to quickly gain and apply functional area specific knowledge.
Ability to learn new tools and skills quickly.
Experience working in the pharmaceutical development, manufacturing or supply chain space.
Experience interpreting analytical results and ascertaining implications to the business.
Experience interacting with business stakeholders: understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling their insight/analytical information requirements.
Exceptional creative problem-solving skills to answer key business questions.
Ability to work with diverse teams across organizational lines and structures.
Why you should apply
You will help patients in their fight against serious diseases
You will be part of a company that encourages excellence and innovation, respects diversity, develops leaders and values its employees
You’ll get a competitive salary and a great benefits package including, but not only, an annual bonus, pension contribution, family health insurance, 27 days annual leave, access to BMS Cruiserath on-site gym and life assurance
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If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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