Senior Cloud Platform Back-End Engineer

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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.

Your Role: As a Senior Cloud Platform Back-End Engineer in the Data & AI Solutions - Engineering team within Healthcare R&D, you will leverage your AWS expertise to enhance a critical cloud-based analytics platform for drug development.
Your role includes implementing the technical roadmap, maintaining platform functionalities, and adapting to emerging technologies while managing infrastructure and security. Responsibilities involve designing new features, overseeing deployments, and optimizing performance updates. You will also implement data archival strategies and manage compliance with data regulations.

This position requires on-site presence in Spain and offers a multicultural, agile work environment with autonomy in decision-making.

Who You Are:

· A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

· Exceptional problem-solving skills.

· Around 5 years of relevant experience.

· A proven track record of building and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native systems using AWS services at an enterprise level.

· Fluency in English with excellent communication skills.

· Willingness to work in a multinational environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the US, Europe (primarily Germany), and India.

· A strong sense of accountability and ownership, with a capacity for rapid learning.

Key Technical Skills and Experience:

· Programming Skills: In-depth experience in Python, relational databases, SQL, and strong proficiency in an object oriented programming languages such as Scala, C#, or Java.

· Architecture: Knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices built on AWS, with experience in AWS Lambda (using the boto3 library) and serverless design.

· Cloud Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of the relevant AWS services ecosystem (VPC, IAM, STS, EKS, RDS, EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, MWAA (Airflow)).

· Containerization: Experience in building and deploying container services (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate).

· Best Practices: Solid grounding in design principles such as object-oriented programming (OOP) and design patterns (SOLID), along with a deeper understanding of data and service contracts. Excellent code and technical documentation as well as experience with code review.

· CI/CD & Automation: In-depth understanding of CI/CD pipelines, with experience in building and deploying CI/CD pipelines (preferably using Azure DevOps).

· Testing Framework: Skilled in using testing and mocking frameworks to create unit and integration tests that ensure application reliability and functionality.

· Security: Familiarity with AWS security best practices (MFA, encryption, user roles & policies).

· Data Tools: Experience with Iceberg and Snowflake.

Nice to Have:

· Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for infrastructure automation, Microsoft Entra ID for identity and access management.

· Experience in building streaming applications (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).

· Knowledge of NoSQL databases.

If you are curious and ambitious to take on this challenge, apply today and take the lead in implementing our Data and Analytics landscape. Your contributions will have a lasting impact on our customers and our organization, elevating Data & Analytics to the next level!

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What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety 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 a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!