Data Engineer

Job Description

At our company, we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. We're at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. Join us in using the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, ingestion workflows, and transformation processes that support scalable enterprise data solutions
• Develop and support data services, APIs, and backend components to enable reliable data access and integration across enterprise systems
• Work with structured and unstructured data and ensure smooth integration between data platforms, backend services, and user-facing applications where needed
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented data processing and application code following engineering best practices
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, performance tuning, and refactoring across data engineering and supporting software components
• Design and implement AI-powered features and intelligent workflows within applications
• Contribute to the development and integration of AI agents, chatbots, copilots, and automation flows
• Collaborate on use cases involving retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), search, and structured/unstructured data integration
• Integrate applications with internal and external APIs, enterprise platforms, and data engineering ecosystems to support scalable enterprise solutions
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, retrieval, and search workflows that enable reliable reporting, analytics, and AI-driven use cases
• Ensure reliable integration between back-end services, and AI services
• Deploy and support applications in cloud environments - AWS
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation, and release processes
• Assist with monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational support in lower and production environments
• Work closely with architects, Tech Leads, product owners, and cross-functional teams
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos
• Translate business requirements into scalable data and AI solutions for enterprise use cases

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of experience in software development or data engineering, with strong exposure to building application solutions
• Experience with software development life cycle - hands on experience with software development, testing, debugging and deployment
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Understanding of back-end development, including API design and integration
• Experience with Git, version control, GitHub/Bitbucket and CI/CD concepts
• Experience with building ETL pipelines
• Experience with SQL
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in Agile teams

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of platforms such as AWS, Databricks, dbt, Airflow
• Familiarity with AI tools and frameworks such as Gemini, OpenAI APIs, Claude
• Understanding of AI-powered use cases such as chatbots, copilots, automation flows, or retrieval/search workflows
• Comfortable working across multiple technology areas, not limited to data engineering

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax-free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

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