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Principal Data Engineer (Research, Manufacturing, Supply Chain) - REMOTE

Principal Data Engineer (Research, Manufacturing, Supply Chain) - REMOTE

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Remote

$117K - $140K/yr

Full-time

Posted 15 days ago

Job description

Job Summary:
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation. They are seeking a dedicated Principal Data Engineer to lead and manage their Data Engineering team, enabling scientists with data to make informed decisions across research, manufacturing, and supply chain domains.
Responsibilities:
• Data Engineering – Integrate & curate data from research systems & artifacts to support analytics, modelling, machine learning, and investigation. Collaborate closely with our research engagement teams to understand requirements, and translate them into data solutions
• Data Engineering management - Manage, maintain, and improve the Vertex Data Platform solutions that support & enable research scientists and manufacturing and supply chain analytics teams
• Delivery management – Estimate, architect, and execute on delivery of critical data solutions across research, manufacturing, and supply chain domains in partnership with the DSE leadership team
• Operations Management – Manage a team of data engineers to maintain compliant, timely, secure, and reliable data workloads for Research. Work alongside our DSE MLOps team to support complex workloads that leverage curated & model ready data
• Innovation champion - Advocate for process enhancements and opportunities to improve our capabilities with a focus on efficiency, scale, and data connectivity
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of 9 years of development experience using Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, or equivalent data technologies
• Minimum of 9 years of experience in pharmaceutical research, with an emphasis on data engineering, data science, data integrity, and data governance
• Prior experience leading Data Engineering projects and teams
• 3+ years leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or equivalent cloud data platforms
• Demonstrated experience with pipeline technologies like Astronomer / Airflow, MLFlow, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects that require collaboration across functional areas.
• Skillful, collaborative team player able to develop rapport and credibility with stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to teach, engage and support others as they learn new technologies and concepts.
• Enthusiasm for and the ability to quickly learn new technologies and tackle difficult problems
• Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of key workflow tools, including JIRA and Confluence
Company:
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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