As Senior Director of Analytics Engineering, James Black is a People and Product Family Leader for Insights Engineering, and Product Owner of the Scientific Computing Environment. He is leading a team of data scientists and engineers, and responsible for our internal codebase of packages and dashboards to generate insights. There, he is focussed on amplifying the impact of >1,200 internal data scientists, and breaking the barriers down between CSR and real world data.
His personal website is https://www.epijim.uk/

The Pop in my Job:

Continuous improvement in the efficiency, reproducibility and democratisation of how we convert data into robust insights.

Roche is a global leader in the discovery and development of medicines and diagnostics, focused on helping people live better, longer lives through scientific advances. By combining pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof, Roche is a leader in personalised healthcare - a strategy that aims to give every patient the best possible treatment. Roche is the world's largest biotech company with differentiated medicines for oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and central nervous system disorders. Roche is also the most important provider of in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer tests and a pioneer in diabetes management.