# Senior Real World Data Scientist

This is what you will do: The Epidemiology and Real-World Science team in Alexion-AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease Unit accelerates patient access to innovative medicines by advancing the scientific use of Real World Data (RWD). In this role, you will apply RWD to support the rare disease portfolio, aligned with AstraZeneca best practices and standards. Building on AstraZeneca’s strong Real World Evidence (RWE) foundation and internal data assets, the team is expanding through a dedicated Real World Data Science capability. Successful candidates will tackle challenging problems with innovative methods to deliver Real World Insights and Evidence for stakeholders in Clinical Development, Regulatory, and Patient Safety. The ideal candidate is a curious, self-directed learner with a proven record of deriving value from routinely collected healthcare or observational data, delivering health analytics across Public Health, Pharmaceutical R&D, Commercial/Payer, and Patient Safety. You will provide methods expertise, lead and support analyses of RWD, and guide study design, data source selection, and best practices in RWD utilization, emphasizing patient safety. You will also help shape Alexion/

- **Id**: 3773718
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-senior-real-world-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mississauga, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T22:28:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T13:47:21Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T13:47:21Z
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5104
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Rare Disease Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 13195
- **Name**: AstraZeneca
- **Domain**: astrazeneca.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astra-zeneca>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

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- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 172
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- **Stale share**: 0.366
- **Repost share**: 0.105
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T22:28:04Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T13:47:21Z

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