Principal Data Engineer, Product Development Informatics

Job description

·  Job facts

Purpose and Mission

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex data problems enabling Product Development to transform data into actionable insights. You will partner with other Informatics groups and business stakeholders to co-create data and analytics enabled solutions that help our teams fulfill our mission: to do now what patients need next.

What you'll be working on

·  Exploring new ways of building, processing, and analysing data in order to deliver insights to our business partners
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Working with cutting edge data processing frameworks, technologies, and platforms

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Continuously refining data quality with testing, tooling and performance evaluation

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Collaborating in multi-functional agile teams with end-to-end responsibility for product development and delivery within Pharma Development

Responsibilities:

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Lead and drive the creation of a Data Engineering center of excellence in PD Informatics

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Lead the data engineering efforts to migrate the existing data architecture to modern cloud technology

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Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines

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Drive for automation to increase efficiency

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Investigate and explore cutting edge advanced analytics methodologies, data processing frameworks, technologies, and platforms

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Continuously refine data quality with testing, tooling and performance evaluation

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Explore new ways of building, processing, and analysing data in order to deliver insights to our business partners

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Partner with architects to design systems required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources

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Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems

Requirements and Qualifications:

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15 years of work experience, including 10 years of experience in data engineering

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Master's degree in related fields (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematical Engineering, Information Systems)

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Passionate about technology trends and a leading expert in data engineering

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Strong technical background in Big Data, data-driven development, experimentation and agile software processes

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Advanced understanding and experience with scaling experiments (PoC), machine learning, deep learning, Neural Networks, anomaly detection, predictive analysis, exploratory data analysis, and other areas of data science, preferably in Pharma or Biotech

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Ability to lead cross functional teams through agile product development cycle

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Demonstrated experience in effectively presenting information to senior stakeholders

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Previous experience in working in matrix organization

Must haves:

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Processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets

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Building and optimizing ‘big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets

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Experience in Data Science, knowledge of R or Python and its Data Science libraries

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Experience with data visualization tools (eg. Shiny), data wrangling tools, and with relational and NoSQL databases

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Expert knowledge of Service Orchestration and Virtualization using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker

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Prototype and develop cloud native architecture solutions for application needs; particularly with AWS.

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Hands on experience with AWS Cloud services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, RDS, VPC, LAMBDA, SQS, SNS, EKS, Load Balancers, CloudWatch, API Gateway etc.

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Automating software build and deployment to development and production systems

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Continuous integration systems (Jenkins, Travis, Drone CI)

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Source Control System (Git)

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Strong operational experience in Linux/Unix environment, configuration management, and monitoring and systems tools (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)

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Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, AWS Cloud-formation

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·  Who we are

A member of the Roche Group, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry for more than 40 years, using human genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. Genentech has multiple therapies on the market for cancer & other serious illnesses. Please take this opportunity to learn about Genentech where we believe that our employees are our most important asset & are dedicated to remaining a great place to work.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.