Principal Cloud Data Engineer

Job Description

At our company, for more than a century we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most stimulating diseases. Information technology is a critical differentiating capability for our research organization and a pillar of our Company’s strategy, with a focus on driving efficient, reusable, and easy to consume technology. Frictionless, compliant movement of our clinical data lies at the center of our ability to bring new therapies to patients.

We are looking for an experienced senior data engineer for our product line. The person will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and optimizing data pipelines, models, and consumption mechanisms on using out tech stack consisting of AWS, DataBricks, Airflow, DBT amongst others. This role will work with stakeholders across the organization to leverage common solutions for the enterprise. This is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate thought leadership and transform the data eco-system for drug development data.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and architect scalable and efficient solutions for ingestion, storage, and consumption of drug development data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and access policies to ensure seamless data flow.
• Guide and direct the design of conceptual, logical, and implementation of physical data models and data flows to support data analysis and business intelligence.
• Roll-up sleeves and dig into code to troubleshoot issues, provide root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to mitigate issues going forward.
• Engage with technical leads across different teams to identify and leverage synergies.
• Stay current with new emerging technologies and conduct POCs to assess and evangelize their adoption.

Education Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of BS (or equivalent) in Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, IT, or an equivalent scientific/commercial discipline.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 8-10 years of IT experience, preferably in data engineering
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS data services such as Glue, Kinesis, Redshift, Step functions. Understands networking constructs such as VPCs, security groups, and access constructs using IAM, and IaC using CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modeling (3NF and dimensional)
• Strong data analysis skills to understand and detect basic patterns.
• Experience with database technologies (e.g., SQL, DataBricks, RedShift)
• Experience with ETL and data integration tools (dbt, AWS Glue)
• Hands-on experience with DevOps technologies such GitHub, Git CI/CD and/or Jenkins and automation of deployment.
• Preferred GxP systems exposure and understanding.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience developing reference architecture, principles and standards, and best practices.
• Familiarity with data science algorithms, such as advanced statistical methods, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP) modeling.
• Knowledge of business processes and industry/market trends within the pharmaceutical space.
• Track record of successfully completing multi-stakeholder projects that require cross-functional coordination between departments.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner
• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Job Posting End Date:

09/30/2024

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