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Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.\nPosition Summary:\nAs a Data Engineer, you will play a vital role in supporting the broader Data Engineering community to deliver cutting-edge data and analytics platforms for our Global Drug Development (GDD) IT group - specifically within the Cross Study Operations and Specimen Management domain.\nWe seek a candidate who excels at creating innovative, reliable, secure, and easy-to-use data ecosystems that support the full data product lifecycle - including ingesting, storing, processing, governing, and interacting with data. You will be a hands-on technical expert and individual contributor, applying expertise in data engineering, cloud platforms, and Generative AI to solve complex clinical data challenges across cross-study operations and biospecimen workflows, delivering high-quality, scalable data solutions.\nYou will collaborate closely with BI&T partners, business analysts, and data engineers, as well as Clinical Operations specialists, Specimen Management professionals, Cross-Study Operations leads, and other domain experts to support various data-driven initiatives and enhance the overall BMS data ecosystem. You will be expected to leverage Generative AI (GenAI), Databricks, and semantic technologies to drive innovation and efficiency within our data platforms.\nKey Responsibilities:\nCollaborate with BI&T partners, cross-study operations leads, specimen management specialists, clinical study teams, clinical trial analysts, trial managers, domain experts, and cross-functional leaders in data engineering, data product teams, and data operations to support effective adoption of our Data Platform.\nDesign, build, and maintain scalable, production-grade data pipelines and platform components supporting Cross Study Operations and Specimen Management product lines, including cross-trial data aggregation, specimen tracking, and biobanking workflows.\nDevelop and enhance data solutions to accelerate data usage across cross-study clinical R&D programs, ensuring robustness, interoperability with consumer applications, and scalability.\nOptimize data platform components for performance, scalability, interoperability, availability, and cost-effectiveness using techniques such as cloud-native parallel processing, Databricks Delta Lake, caching, and partitioning.\nHelp design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data models using Databricks, Delta Lake, cloud-native tools, semantic modeling, and interoperability standards for large, complex cross-study and specimen datasets in life sciences.\nPartner with business and data product owners to deliver hands-on technical solutions for data product development, standardization, testing, lineage, meeting latency requirements, and ensuring access governance across cross-study and specimen management data assets.\nUtilize Databricks Unity Catalog to enforce data governance, manage metadata, and ensure end-to-end data lineage across cross-study and specimen management data products.\nContribute to the development of self-service data discovery solutions, fostering findability, accessibility, and reusability of cross-study operational and specimen data assets.\nMaintain thorough documentation of processes, data structures, and technical solutions; deliver clear technical recommendations and execute solutions effectively across the enterprise.\nHelp build and deploy GenAI-powered and NLP-driven applications that deliver measurable outcomes across cross-study operations and specimen management, including efficiency gains, specimen traceability improvements, cross-study insight generation, risk mitigation, and compliance automation.\nDevelop and operationalize cloud-based GenAI and LLM-powered applications in collaboration with data product owners, engineers, and data scientists, utilizing techniques such as RAG, fine-tuning, and vector embeddings to deliver high-quality data discovery and consumption features for cross-study and specimen management workflows.\nLeverage Databricks Mosaic AI and MLflow to develop, track, deploy, and manage machine learning and GenAI models at scale within cross-study and specimen management contexts.\nStay current on technology trends in GenAI, RAG, semantic search, Databricks, cloud orchestration, and containerization; apply emerging best practices to optimize platform performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.\nServe as a go-to technical expert within the Cross Study Operations and Specimen Management domain, providing guidance and mentorship to junior analysts, interns, and vendor resources on Databricks, technical best practices, and business alignment.\nFoster a culture of continuous learning, engineering excellence, and knowledge sharing across the data engineering community.\nQualifications & Experience:\n0-2 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI/ML, with demonstrated expertise implementing and operating data capabilities and solutions in a cloud environment.\nHands-on expertise with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, Mosaic AI, and MLflow; Databricks certification (e.g., Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional) is a strong plus.\nDemonstrated expertise in cloud-native data platforms, ETL/ELT pipeline design, data modeling, and semantic analytics for large-scale, complex datasets, with hands-on DevOps experience.\nStrong proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark (including PySpark on Databricks), and GenAI frameworks; hands-on experience with LLM architectures, RAG, prompt engineering, and agentic frameworks.\nProficiency in creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture for large, complex datasets, including semantic modeling within a domain - preferably life sciences, clinical trial operations, or specimen/biobanking workflows.\nDemonstrated experience delivering production-grade GenAI applications, predictive models, and self-service analytics tools supporting critical clinical or research business functions.\nWorking knowledge of LLM and GenAI-driven approaches, including RAG, Chain-of-Thought, fine-tuning, vectorization, agentic frameworks, and prompt engineering techniques for improving the accuracy of LLM-based responses.\nStrong stakeholder engagement and communication skills; ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and drive adoption of data solutions across functional teams.\nCommitment to engineering excellence, documentation, and process improvement; functional knowledge of Life Sciences R&D and clinical trial operations is highly preferred.\nWe hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials - if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.\nCompensation Overview:\nPrinceton - NJ - US: $65,540 - $79,413 \nThe starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully - carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.\nBenefits:\nSubject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans - including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).\nU.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.\nNon-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.\nDepending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.\nU.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings athttps://careers.bms.com/benefits\nHow We Work\nWhere you work matters - because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.\nSupporting People with Disabilities\nBMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to . Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.\nCandidate Rights\nBMS will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.\nFor roles based in Los Angeles County only: If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/\nFor roles based in Washington State only: If you live in or expect to work from Washington State if hired for this position, please visit this page for important information about the Washington Fair Chance Act.\nData Protection\nWe will never request payments, financial information, or social security numbers during our application or recruitment process. Learn more about protecting yourself at https://careers.bms.com/fraud-protection.\nAny data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.\nIf this posting is missing required information required by local law or incorrect, contact BMS at  with the Job Title and Requisition number. Do not send application-related inquiries to this email. 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