Senior Data Scientist - OpenData

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva Systems is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our US Veeva OpenData Product team. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will collaborate with the product org to build complex methods, analytics, and data that support Veeva’s Reference Data product, OpenData. You’ll execute on our roadmap for data improvements to Veeva OpenData, evaluate discrepancies, and share critical insights that will inform both the customer and product improvement efforts. Your expertise will contribute to the continued success of both Veeva's customers and the product itself.

What You'll Do

• Data Science Project Management: Lead critical projects that contribute to the underlying OpenData reference and affiliation data assets by leveraging your advanced data science programming and analytics skills
• Execute Data Curation through Applied Data Science: Leverage your deep domain knowledge in how providers and facilities are identified, tracked, and represented in data to infuse OpenData with the most accurate possible representation of location and relationship
• Collaborate on Large Complex Unstructured Data Initiatives: Partner with the OpenData Engineering team to create a scaled web scraping framework that enables Veeva OpenData to track providers and facilities
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with internal stakeholders across Veeva’s product portfolio to assist with interoperability between OpenData and other products. Veeva OpenData collaborates with Veeva Compass to ensure that claims analytics are correctly mapped to reference and affiliation data
• Document & Report: Maintain detailed documentation of all developments that are incorporated into the Veeva OpenData pipeline

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of data science experience within life sciences, specifically in data integration, data management, and advanced analytics applied to RWE data
• Technical Skills: Ability to use PySpark to code against large datasets. Jupyter Labs experience and AWS knowledge are essential
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders
• Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking: Strong analytical skills with the ability to quickly identify issues and work collaboratively to develop solutions

Nice to Have

• Industry Knowledge (Preferred): Experience in the Life Sciences industry is a plus, especially with respect to commercial data systems, RWE, provider and facility reference and affiliation data

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $150,000 - $185,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.