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Associate Director, Data Engineering

MSD Pharmaceuticals Private Limited

4.1

based on 257 Reviews

5-7 years

Hyderabad / Secunderabad

1 vacancy

Associate Director, Data Engineering

MSD Pharmaceuticals

posted 4hr ago

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Flexible timing

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Data Analytics Consulting SQL Healthcare Clinical Data Management Life Sciences

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Job Description

Role Overview :

As the Associate Director, Data Engineering, your role will focus on business intelligence to enhance data-driven decision-making across the organization. This role is crucial for transforming data into valuable insights that drive business performance, support strategic initiatives and ultimately contribute to company mission to use science to improve and save lives around the world.

What will you do in this role:

You will develop and ensure that business intelligence activities are efficient and effective, enabling timely access to accurate data for informed decision-making, and focused on automation, controls, and data quality.

Design, develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from a variety of sources and populate data lake and data warehouse.

Collaborate with Data Analyst, Data scientists, Machine Learning Engineers to identify and transform data for ingestion, exploration, and modeling .

Work with data governance team and implement data quality checks and maintain data catalogs .

Use Orchestration, logging, and monitoring tools to build resilient pipelines .

Use test driven development methodology when building ELT/ETL pipelines .

Understand and apply concepts like data lake, data warehouse, lake-house, data mesh and data-fabric where relevant .

Develop data models for cloud data warehouses like Redshift and Snowflake .

Develop pipelines to ingest data into cloud data warehouses .

You will investigate enterprise data requirements where there is some complexity and ambiguity and plan own data modeling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and the correct level of detail for meeting assigned objectives .

You will define and implement data engineering strategies that align with organizational goals and data governance standards.

You will play a lead role in agile engineering and consulting, providing guidance on for complex data and unplanned data challenges.

You will collaborate in the formulation of analytics policies, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency and compliance across the organization.

Encourages a culture of continuous learning, constructive collaboration, and innovation within the team.

What Should you have:

Bachelors degree in computer science/engineering, Data Sciences, Bioinformatic s, Biostatistics or any other computational quantitative science .

Minimum of 5-7 years of developing data pipelines & data infrastructure, ideally within a drug development or life sciences context .

Expert in software / data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).

Strong software development skills in R and Python, SQL, PySpark .

Agile working knowledge .

Strong working knowledge of at least one large-scale data processing technology ( e.g. High-performance computing, distributed computing), databases and underlying technology (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases) .

Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) effectively bridging scientific and business needs; experience working in a matrix environment.

Proven record of delivering high-quality results in quantitative sciences and/or a solid publication track record .

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us and start making your impact today.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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The forward looking approach, inclusiveness and diversity, and improving adoption of agile methodology, technology and analytics and focus on Compliance.