Data Engineer - Digital & Tech Colombia

At GSK, we rely on powerfully insightful data to inform our systems and solutions,  and we’re seeking an experienced pipeline-centric data steward to put it to good use. The ideal candidate will have the expected mathematical and statistical expertise, combined with a rare curiosity and creativity. This person will wear many hats in the role, but much of the focus will be on building out our Python ETL processes and writing superb SQL. Beyond technical prowess, the data engineer will need soft skills for clearly communicating highly complex data trends to organizational leaders. We’re looking for someone willing to jump right in and help the company get the most from its data.

Key Responsibilities:

Objectives of the role:

• Work with data to solve business problems, building and maintaining the infrastructure to answer questions and improve processes
• Working with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues
• Support Colombian leadership and their team’s ensuring clarity and alignment of priorities and activities to Emerging Markets strategic goals and objectives, across regions, therapeutic area groups, and functional teams.
• Help streamline our data workflows, adding value to our product offerings and building out the customer lifecycle
• Work closely with business intelligence teams to develop data models and pipelines for research, reporting, and machine learning
• Identify, design and implement internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
• Be an advocate for best practices and continued learning

Responsibilities of the role:

• Work closely with our BI data team to help build complex algorithms that provide unique insights into our data
• Help to design the process, architecture, standardization and data policy business data
• Use agile software development processes to make iterative improvements to our back-end systems
• Model front-end and back-end data sources to help draw a more comprehensive picture of user flows throughout the system and to enable powerful data analysis
• Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources
• Develop models that can be used to make predictions and answer questions for the overall business
• Participate in data quality improvement initiatives and projects.
• Utilize data quality tools and technologies to support data validation and cleansing processes
• Ensure compliance with data quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with data use cases product owners to anticipate potential data quality issues and implement innovative solution

¿Why You?

Your qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related discipline
• Experience in building or maintaining ETL processes
• Professional certification
• Four or more years of experience with R, Python, RPAs, SQL, and data visualization/exploration tools
• Experience with database management and governance projects
• Familiarity with the AWS, Azure and Salesforce ecosystems.
• Familiarity with data architecture understanding
• Communication skills, especially for explaining technical concepts to nontechnical business leaders
• Ability to work on a dynamic, research-oriented team that has concurrent projects
• Proven expertise in project management / process design.
• Fluency in English
• Demonstrated ability to organize and bring structure into highly complex projects
• Experience with data bricks

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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