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Requirements
Position Description A Data Engineer is needed to support the product development team in data design and structuring, ETL processes, and pipeline generation.
Responsibilities
- Support the product development team in the creation of features for predictive ML models.
- Support the product development team in the manipulation of large data sets, and the extraction of insights.
- Support the product development team in the design and optimisation of database solutions that sit upstream of main production environment.
- Develop & maintain data publication and synchronisation processes, supporting Tableau.
- Designing robust & efficient data processes, aggregations and pipelines.
- Establish industry best practices using modern tools and processes.
- Productionising Tableau data transforms.
- Creation of attributes for data science models.
- Manipulation of large data to create aggregated analyses.
- Creation of optimised upstream database systems, e.g. consolidated/standardised clinical trial or pricing database (across multiple geographies).
- Pulling bespoke database extracts for hypothesis testing, and ideation.
- Trend analysis.
- Pulling, processing and structuring new data sets, from public and private sources, e.g. grant information.
Working Conditions
Based in the London office with flexible working. Occasional travel to other offices, subsidiaries & partner locations. Initially 100% working from home while government travel restrictions remain in place due to Covid-19.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Have a good grasp of modern data practises and apply them to complex problems.
- Building services features and libraries that contribution to library code and core services.
- Have a good understanding of data architecture.
- Experience with AWS
- Ability to write code in Python
- Experience wielding large data sets in formats such as XML, JSON and CSV.
- Data manipulation using ETL tools and databases (Alteryx, Matillion, Redshift/Snowflake, RDS, S3).
- Knowledge of database design, consolidating and flow outputs into current/new database.
- Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI or QuickSight.
- Experience with big data technologies.
- Experience in data processing using traditional and distributed systems.
- Experience designing data models
- Experience in SQL, NoSQL database management systems
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- Expertise in the design, creation and management of large datasets/data models.
- Experience working on building and optimising logical data model and data pipelines while delivering high data quality solutions that are testable and adhere to SLAs.
- Experience in using various data design patterns and knowledge of when/when not to use one.
- Experience of working in an Agile (Scrum) environment
Nice to have
- R or MATLAB.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry, in particular the stages of pharmaceutical product development.
- Familiarity with research, clinical trial or patent documents.