Job Description

Lead Data Engineer

At our Company we are leveraging analytics and technology, as we invent for life on behalf of patients around the world. We are seeking those who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision making, that will allow us to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.

Within our commercial Insights, Analytics, and Data organization we are transforming to better power decision-making across our end-to-end commercialization process, from business development to late lifecycle management. As we endeavor, we are seeking a dynamic talent for the role of Data Engineer

For the Data Engineer role, we are looking for professional with experience in designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines. We intend to make data reliable, governed, secure and available for analytics within the organization. As part of a team this role will be responsible for data management with a broad range of activities like data ingestion to cloud data lakes and warehouses, quality control, metadata management and orchestration of machine learning models. We are also forward looking and plan to bring innovations like data mesh and data fabric into our ecosystem of tools and processes
 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Play a key role in the success and growth of the Data Engineering team by mentoring and playing a leadership role within the team
• Drive innovation within Data Engineering by playing a lead role in technology decisions for the future of our data science, analysis, and reporting needs
• Work with business partners and software engineers to gather, understand, and bridge definitions and requirements
• Lead the design and development for highly complex and critical data projects with strict timelines        
• Improvements to team efficiency and effectiveness through implementation of data tools (self-service, data quality, etc.)
• Design, develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from a variety of sources and populate data lake and data warehouse
• Develop the various data transformation rules and data modeling capabilities
• Collaborate with Data Analyst, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers to identify and transform data for ingestion, exploration, and modeling
• Work with data governance team and implement data quality checks and maintain data catalogs
• Use Orchestration, logging, and monitoring tools to build resilient pipelines
• Use test driven development methodology when building ELT/ETL pipelines
• Understand and apply concepts like data lake, data warehouse, lake-house, data mesh and data-fabric where relevant
• Develop data models for cloud data warehouses like Redshift and Snowflake
• Develop pipelines to ingest data into cloud data warehouses
• Understand and be able to use different databases like Relational, Document, Graph and Key/Value
• Analyze data using SQL
• Use serverless AWS services like Glue, Lambda, Step Functions
• Use Terraform Code to deploy on AWS
• Containerize Python code using Docker
• Use Git for version control and understand various branching strategies
• Build pipelines to work with large datasets using PySpark
• Develop proof of concepts using Jupyter Notebooks
• Work as part of an agile team
• Create technical documentation as needed

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
   

Required Experience and Skills:

• 9+ years of total experience
• Good experience with AWS services like S3, ECS, Fargate, Glue, StepFunctions, CloudWatch, Lambda, EMR
• SQL
• Proficient in Python, PySpark
• Good with Git, Docker, Terraform
• Ability to work in cross functional teams

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Any AWS developer or architect certification
• Agile development methodology

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.  

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Applied Engineering, Business, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Management, Computer Science, Corporate Management, Data Analytics, Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Pipelines, Data Science, Data Visualization, Data Warehouse Architecture, Data Warehouse Software, Healthcare Innovation, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Management Process, Market Access, Network Infrastructures, Product Commercialization, Social Collaboration, Software Development

Preferred Skills:

Architecture Development, Architecture Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Case Development, Business Development, Business Model Development, Business Process Development, Business Reporting, Business Transformation, Creativity, Data Lake, Data Quality Assessments, Data Reporting, Data Transformation, Data Warehouse Development, Decision Making, Development Design, Digital Analytics, Documentations, Innovation, Leadership, Management Development, Marketing, Metadata Management, New Business Development {+ 2 more}

Job Posting End Date:

08/26/2025

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