Sr. Data Engineer

About the role

At Exact Sciences, we're helping change how the world prevents, detects, and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others.

Responsibilities

• Has complete knowledge, skills, and understanding of practices for complex programs and initiatives demonstrating creativity and substantial understanding of specialized techniques, processes, procedures.
• Troubleshoot issues and problems of medium complexity for major software applications; break down complex tasks, make reasonable decisions, investigate and fix bugs, and operate independently.
• Initiate independent designs that impact and influence the department’s delivery and approach. Lead reviewing design alternatives, problems, and solutions with an eye on limiting the need for later problem solving.
• Contribute individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives, and work effectively with others in a group setting. This includes mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance for junior members of the team.
• Build successful internal and external partnerships with peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers.
• Communicate clear and concise project plans/designs and status updates for a project.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.

Requirements

• Complete knowledge and full understanding of software development design and development, and relevant domain specific skills (see below).
• Spark on Snowflake or Databricks.
• Python, Scala, SQL development.
• ETL data pipelines.
• Designing and implementing data modeling solutions using relational, dimensional, and/or NoSQL databases.
• Database architecture testing methodology, including execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.
• Big Data file formats (Parquet, Avro, Delta Lake).
• Cloud Infrastructure services (i.e., AWS, SQS, S3, and GitLab).
• Agile development tools; including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.
• RestAPI development.
• Tableau, ideally including performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Skills

• Advanced understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), including consuming packaged MCP integrations (e.g., Atlassian), configuring custom MCP servers, and developing MCP and skills integrations to extend AI tooling within data workflows.
• Familiarity with customer data platform (CDP) concepts, Braze or other patient/provider communications workflows/processes.

Pay

$101,000.00 - $172,000.00 The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis. In addition, this position is bonus eligible.

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

Exact Sciences offers an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.