Be the Next Game Changer
Your Mission:
Member of the data engineering team responsible for data aggregation, transformation, modeling and delivery for both client usage and internal data science teams
Full-stack design, development, and operation of core data capabilities like data lake, data warehouse, data marts and data pipelines
Contribute to the team's roadmap and project planning process, partnering with stakeholders to develop business objectives and translate those into action
Work with data architects to develop data flows and align to platform integration standards
Build data flows for data acquisition, aggregation, and modeling, using both batch and streaming paradigms
Consolidate/join datasets to create easily consumable, consistent, holistic information
Empower other data teams, data scientists and data analysts to be as self-sufficient as possible by building core capabilities as services and developing reusable library code
Ensure efficiency, quality, resiliency of the core data platform
Your Competencies:
Analytically minded and detail-oriented: you actually like working with data, looking for patterns and outliers, establishing data models, and finding the best answers to business & technology problems
Expertise in data engineering languages such as Java, Scala, Python, SQL
Data modeling experience; you've designed and implemented data marts, data warehouses or other large-scale data management systems; you have experience with Dimensional and Data Vault data modeling
Experience working with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake Computing, AWS Redshift or Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Experience building ETL and data pipelines, both with traditional ETL solutions like Pentaho, Informatica, SSIS, Talend but also via code-oriented systems like Spark, Airflow or similar
Cloud-oriented with strong understanding of SaaS models
Experience operating in a secure networking environment, leveraging separate production support and SRE teams is a plus
Excellent technical documentation and writing skills
You have a bias towards automation, an Agile/Lean mindset and embrace the Devops culture
Familiarity with streaming/messaging technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming
Familiarity with visualizing data with Tableau, Business Objects, Quicksight, PowerBI, Spotfire and similar tools
Great customer focus and strong technical troubleshooting skills
Proficiency in statistics and data science is a nice-to-have, and interest in learning these is even better
Experience with clinical trial data is not required, but interest to learn and understand it is a must
Hadoop/Spark and Graph/RDF/Ontologies experience a plus
Your Education & Experience:
Undergraduate or graduate degree in a technical or scientific field, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar
5+ years professional experience as a data engineer, software engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or related role
Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform.
Medidata Solutions have powered over 17,000+ clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.
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Medidata requires all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide documentation of full vaccination, unless qualified for an accommodation as determined by Medidata, consistent with applicable law. Although accommodation requests will be considered (and granted where appropriate/possible), it may be determined that a candidate is unable to adequately perform the essential functions of the position without imposing an undue hardship on Medidata due to customer requirements, staffing needs, or other business reasons.
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