Do you have a curious mindset to learn new skills and want to make a societal impact with your analytical skills? Are you a team player with a great balance between prioritization and collaboration? More importantly, are you passionate about Data Science? If yes is the answer, why not give BC Platforms a chance so we can learn more about you, your passion in data, career goals and how you can potentially be our next shining Data Scientist!

At BC Platforms, we are developing solutions for automating genomic data processing in the field of Life Science & Healthcare. Our team works in cooperation with organizations leading the transition of better utilization of genomic data in healthcare. We get really excited about multi-omics data such as genomic, proteomic, etc. since we are the real nerds! We hope to find a new team member to join our Data Science Team in our Finland office, where you can use your expertise in keeping up potential and current data science projects. We expect that you can handle our data engineering tasks. With your abilities to communicate effectively, collaborate cross-functionally and solve problems creatively, you can play key roles in developing the Data Science practice within the company while working cross-functionally across various timezones. Being a Data Scientist at BC Platforms is not only about working with multiple data types, but getting involved directly with multiple internal and external stakeholders to actualize our shared-goals, hence your communication skills are needed when interacting with diverse human beings (and data!) from all over the world.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Understand data types, data formats, and data models in the healthcare and life sciences field.

• Map data partners' data model to internal BC Platforms data model, OMOP.

• Write scripts to enable data ingestion and data harmonization for multiple data partners.

• Document the processes and steps implemented for data ingestion and data harmonization.

• Collaborate with internal R&D to deploy BC Platforms modules to enable data access for customers.

• Work with data types including patient-level clinical phenotypic data, associated ‘omics’ (genomic, transcriptomic, RNA-Seq and proteomic) data and imaging data.

• Under the guidance of Data Partnership and Data Advisory experts within Data Science, develop methods for fit-for-purpose customer data analysis projects that include analysis of various data types.

• Apply traditional analytical methods as well as ability to explore machine learning methods to integrate and analyze omics data, including NGS with patient-level data from EHRs, patient questionnaire, clinical trials, patient advocacy groups, claims records, imaging, and data from wearables.

Desired experience and skills for this role:

• BSc or MSc in Data Science or Computer Science or other related field of studies

• 1-2 years experience as a bioinformatician, data scientist or biostatistician in the life sciences.

• Demonstrated ability to work with multiple internal and external stakeholders and competing priorities.

• Demonstrated ability to articulate and plan data analysis requirements.

• Experience working in a Unix environment using command line tools (emacs, awk, perl) to extract data.

• Experience or familiarity with working with clinical data types (EHR, phenotypic, NGS and multi-omic data).

• Experience with statistical programming languages (R, Python). Experience or familiarity with tools to undertake big data analysis (SQL, Spark, cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

• Great communication skills in English.

A willingness to learn and engage on broader Data Science and Bioinformatics activities are greatly appreciated, for example:

• Having a curious mindset to learn new skills and make an impact in a team setting

• Familiarity or understanding of genomics, healthcare and clinical data including Real World Data or willingness to learn.

• Open to learn more about Genome sequencing methodologies and computational tooling

• Interested in developing and implementing analysis methodologies such as GWAS, PHWAS, VEP and PLINK

• Willingness to learn about Global data privacy legislation and related requirements for data provenance, data privacy and data security

What we offer:

• Learning & Development
  Opportunity to learn from great and talented colleagues on meaningful work content and grow your competencies. BC Platforms is committed to develop its Learning & Development Programme to further it in a continuous path of improvement.

• Talented colleagues in great locations
  BC Platforms has offices in Zurich, Greater Helsinki, Boston, Singapore and a legal entity in the UK across three continents. Part of our people work also from the home offices from different locations around the globe.

• Company Events
  We have our bi-annual BC|Days Events which are dedicated to our strategy work having all our people involved. We also host BC|Afterwork events occasionally for developing relationships and a sense of community.

• Competitive compensation
  We offer a competitive salary and Incentive Programme. When the company reaches its targets, everyone gets to enjoy the success. We emphasize the long-term impact and reward our people for their success on the long-term growth of the company.

• Healthcare & Wellbeing
  Our people’s health and wellbeing is important to us. We offer private healthcare plans or healthcare insurance plans and travel insurances for all of our employees.

• Work-life balance
  As much as we are eager to work with our colleagues, customers and other stakeholders, we provide a good work-life balance with flexible hours and paid time off.

• Work equipment
  We want to offer you a great onboarding also from the equipment point of view. You will receive a laptop, a mobile phone and headphones. In addition, we offer you a variety of tools and lots of learning regarding our state-of-the-art software solutions.

• Free snacks and beverages

Additional Information

The working office is based in the Technopolis Hub in Espoo, Finland with a hybrid work model and roughly 50% time of possible remote work. Regional travel expectations are included in the role, e.g. company events and customer implementation projects. Working in a global organization will require availability in different time-zones to support customers as requested.

Application

Send us your application by the latest on 26th May via our career page. If you have any questions related to the job description and the position, please reach out to our Head of Advisory & Data Readiness - Kate Prior via kate.prior@bcplatforms.com.

Who we are

BC Platforms is a global leader in providing a powerful data and technology platform for personalized medicine and drug development, accelerating the translation of insights into clinical practice.

BC Platforms operates the Global Data Partner Network BCRQUEST.com, which provides access and analytics on genomic and clinical cohort data for drug developers currently providing access to over 33m subjects across five continents.

Our technology drives the infinite loop between personalized care and research discoveries, leveraging latest science, deep technical expertise, strategic partnerships, and harmonized, diverse data collections.

Our high performing platforms enable high throughput genomic data production, flexible data integration, secure data management, efficient analysis and interpretation of molecular and clinical information.

Founded in 1997 from an MIT Whitehead project spinoff, the Company has a strong scientific heritage underpinned by over 20 years of working in close collaboration with a network of leading researchers, developers, manufacturers and vendors. BC Platforms has global operations with its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, research and development in Espoo, Finland, and sales and marketing in Boston, USA, London, UK and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.bcplatforms.com.