data engineer for drug development
Summary
Data engineer on AstraZeneca's R&D Data & Analytics team (posting via Enfint) in Barcelona, designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, REST APIs, and AWS infrastructure to support drug discovery analytics. Core stack is Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, AWS, and GitHub Actions, with some JavaScript/TypeScript front-end work.
Описание
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercialising prescription medicines for serious diseases. Its R&D IT supports drug research, development, product and portfolio strategy, medical affairs, and corporate functions. The Data & Analytics team provides analytics, data, and insight services supporting R&D Science IT and the company’s Data and AI/ML strategy, including efforts to transform antibody discovery.
Задачи
- Design, build, enhance, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for efficient data ingestion and processing
- Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs for system integration
- Support data, design, product, and executive stakeholders with technical data questions
- Maintain the AWS base infrastructure
- Tune SQL queries and ETL pipelines for performance
- Identify opportunities for efficiency and automation
- Investigate data issues, analyse end-to-end pipelines, and partner with users to resolve them
- Stay current with recent technology developments and industry practices
- Maintain and refine a front-end application
- Contribute to solution development and testing
- Share responsibility for delivery
- Set expectations, share progress, and build relationships with stakeholders
- Provide technical guidance throughout the software development lifecycle
- Identify opportunities to reduce operating costs in existing production services
Требования
- Solid development skills with practical knowledge of Python, Git, and versioning
- Experience with big data, ETL, and cloud tools and techniques
- Good hands-on experience with AWS
- DevOps-first approach with extensive experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions or similar tools
- SQL experience
- PostgreSQL is preferred
- Experience triaging and resolving tickets
- Experience working in globally distributed teams
- Ability to design and document development best practices
- Good experience with API design, documentation, and REST
- Solid analytical and data manipulation skills
- Experience providing technical guidance within data and analytics teams
- Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to delivery
- Ability to partner with business colleagues and build trusted relationships
- Some front-end development and JavaScript/TypeScript experience, with a stronger focus on data and backend work
- Nice to have: familiarity with Agile practices and Jira, experience with visualisation technologies such as Power BI, understanding of AI code-generation opportunities, capabilities, and limitations, experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, experience with Iceberg, Glue, and/or Hive
Условия
Hybrid schedule: 3 days at the office and 2 days at home in Barcelona.