IT professionals continue to play a significant role in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, supporting drug discovery, development, manufacturing, and commercialization. According to recent data from BioSpace, job postings for IT roles declined in the middle of 2025 but increased during the last four months of the year. December’s total nearly matched that of the same month in the previous year. In January 2026, job postings through January 27 already surpassed those from December.
Several companies are currently hiring IT professionals:
AbbVie is offering positions such as senior manager for RBQM analytics in North Chicago, Illinois; director of global business development forecasting in Mettawa, Illinois; and manager of global medical information in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Amgen has openings including senior associate analytical chemistry in Thousand Oaks, California; director-software development engineer in Washington, D.C.; and senior data scientist in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical is seeking candidates for about 20 roles including senior manager for conference technologies in San Rafael, California; director-global digital strategy and capabilities (remote); and contract senior financial analyst for financial planning and analysis also based in San Rafael.
Formation Bio has several opportunities available in New York with jobs like senior data scientist; vice president of engineering; and vice president of trial engine.
GenScript is hiring for positions such as (senior) scientist for analytical development in Pennington, New Jersey; digital media manager in Piscataway, New Jersey; and IT transformation lead either in Rijswijk, Netherlands or Oxford, United Kingdom.
IDEAYA Biosciences is recruiting for three jobs located at South San Francisco: director-digital and patient lead; senior vice president-information technology; and director of medical communications and information.
Insmed has more than twelve positions open including scientist I-analytical development in San Diego; senior associate-information security operations and associate director-cloud platform architect both based out of Bridgewater, New Jersey.
Lilly offers a variety of roles such as data engineer-Lilly Medicines Foundry located at Lebanon Indiana; IT analyst-MQ architecture/infrastructure plus solutions/data architect both located at Indianapolis.
Regeneron is looking to fill several positions like lead applications developer based out Tarrytown New York principal statistical programmer Warren New Jersey along with senior principal scientist AI/ML antibody design/engineering also located at Tarrytown.
Takeda lists dozens openings including director-predictive analytics/AI & head global evidence generation both situated Cambridge Massachusetts alongside full stack developer Boston.
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