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

About the role

We are seeking a dedicated Principal Data Engineer with a passion for pharmaceutical research, to lead and manage our critical Data Engineering team as they strategically enable scientists across Vertex with data.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manage, maintain, and improve the Vertex Data Platform solutions that support & enable research scientists and manufacturing and supply chain analytics teams.
• Deliver 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

• 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.