The Position
Position Summary
As an intern in Data Strategy & Delivery in PD Data Sciences you will spend your time equally between two groups: you will be embedded in both the 1. Data Standards and Governance (DSG) and 2. the Data Privacy & Sharing (DPS) Enabling Platforms (EP). This internship position will drive the design, implementation and governance of industry-wide biomedical data standards from protocol to submission in DSG and contribute to complex data privacy and sharing consultancy issues in DPS. Your educational background in life sciences and interest in clinical research/data science has given you experience in data collection and tabulation standards of safety laboratory data and you should also have a strong interest in data protection/privacy topics and value the reuse of data for further insight generation. You are going to become a key contributor in the maintenance of the standards for this critical type of data used in every single one of our clinical trials. You will also be a key contributor to the maintenance of data sharing metrics in DPS and a number of other data privacy and sharing projects as needed.
You will need strong collaboration, communication and project management skills, as well as an entrepreneurial mindset, to evolve the way we collect and deliver data and to develop and deliver medicines for our patients.
Responsibilities/Skills
1. You contribute to the conceptual design of biomedical data standards from protocol to submission, their governance and their technical implementation in a metadata repository from where they are accessed for implementation on all Roche clinical studies. You are specialized on the data standards used for the collection of safety laboratory data hematology, blood chemistry, urinalysis, etc.).
2. You will spend an equal amount of your time working as a member of the DPS EP, strong teamwork skills and the ability to to work independently using your own initiative will be key to your success in this internship. You will gain a broad understanding of Roche’s data sharing work and will be expected to have an interest in/understanding of basic data privacy concepts.
3. Embedded in teams of key business stakeholders, for the prioritization of the development of new biomedical data standards in your area of expertise and you lead and contribute to specialist teams within the overarching governance framework. The exchange with clinical trial teams and key business stakeholders about impact analysis, risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis, and proposals of alternatives help you and our team to understand where the needs are to continuously grow the biomedical data standards. Your specialist advice and support with the implementation of biomedical data standards to all of Biometrics and beyond is heavily relied on.
4. As an intern in the Data Standards and Governance group you contribute to continuous improvement of our internal work processes and tools. As a group we help drive a culture based on FAIR data principles across the Roche organization.
5. As an intern in the Data Privacy and Sharing EP you will contribute to projects which will improve oversight of our work and demonstrate the value of DPS activities. As a group we enable further insights to be generated from clinical data for patient benefit while simultaneously protecting patient privacy.
Minimum requirements
6. You are enrolled at a university or completed your studies within the past 12 months in a life science discipline. Ideally, you already have experience in applying and managing healthcare data, possibly using CDISC (CDASH, SDTM, or ADaM) industry biomedical data standards. You should also have a strong interest in data sharing, data reuse and data privacy topics.
7. You have got an inner drive for results which you try to achieve by an analytical and structured approach. You have strong critical appraisal skills and you are comfortable taking an investigative approach to work. Paying attention to detail is important to you and you are able to deal positively with multiple requests and priorities. You are used to taking pragmatic decisions under demanding timelines. You feel comfortable in an environment where change and ambiguity are present.
8. You equally like your independence and being embedded in global and cross-functional teams. Your excellent written and oral communication skills make you confident in communicating and presenting to all levels of the organisation and across organisational boundaries. You do not hesitate to challenge in a diplomatic and collaborative way and generate debate in teams.
9. This is a global position which requires regular interactions with colleagues at all sites.