Head of Data Engineering
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Job Description:
Join us to contribute to the org's enterprise priority of driving innovation through data & digital. In R&D, the promise of bringing more medicines to more patients faster is closely linked with the ability to maximize the use of our data for improved decision making using data analytics & AI. For this, having high-quality data readily available in a well-structured manner is crucial. In your role, you will be leading a team of highly skilled data engineers. Together with your team, you will build efficient, harmonized and stable data pipelines that ensure the data is where it needs to be, in the right form and updated in the right cadence. In this way, you will contribute to the creation of central data repositories as well as specific use cases.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of data engineering solutions that enable actionable insights for our business stakeholders.
- Manage and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Maximize the use of our modern Data & AI ecosystem built on AWS, Informatica, Oracle and Snowflake.
- Ensure top quality data is available for all stakeholders by adopting fast-paced, scalable, and continuously evolving data systems and processes.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, diversity and inclusion that allows everyone to contribute to the team’s success.
Qualifications, Experience & Skills:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 10 years of professional experience in data engineering, preferably within the Healthcare sector.
- Experience in leading data engineering teams, driving outcomes and mentoring junior colleagues.
- Substantial experience in delivering data pipelines especially using Informatica (ideally including IICS), AWS (focusing on Glue, Lambda and DMS) as well as building data repositories using Oracle and Snowflake.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and ideally Python and PySpark.
- Strong drive to optimize our data engineering practices, embracing the opportunities offered by our technological setup.
- Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both business-facing teams, product owners and technical developers.
What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!
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