# Senior Data Engineer

Design, build, and operate the data infrastructure for a clinical trial design platform that extracts insights from clinical protocols, regulatory documents, and published articles to accelerate trial design decisions. This role owns the pipelines that ingest, parse, transform, and serve clinical data - from raw PDF extraction through structured storage in Aurora and GraphDB, to serving curated knowledge for LangGraph-based agentic AI workflows. Requirements Build ingestion pipelines for clinical trial protocols, ICF documents, SmPCs, CSRs, and published articles (PubMed, CTIS, ClinicalTrials.gov) - handling PDF parsing, text extraction, and structured data normalization Design and implement data models in Amazon Aurora (relational) and GraphDB (knowledge graph) to represent trial design entities: endpoints, eligibility criteria, study arms, interventions, therapeutic areas, and their relationships Develop embedding and vectorization pipelines to prepare extracted clinical text for RAG-based retrieval in LangGraph agentic workflows - chunking strategies, metadata enrichment, and vector store population Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows that transform unstructured clinical conten

- **Id**: 1480480
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zifo-senior-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T04:23:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 24
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5415
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Healthcare & Life Sciences Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 686878
- **Name**: Zifo
- **Domain**: zifo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zifo>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 113000
- **Max usd**: 205000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 397

## Technologies

- **21 CFR Part 11** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Neptune** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS CDK** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **AWS Step Functions** — Optional: no
- **CDISC** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GraphDB** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Neo4j** — Optional: no
- **NER** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prefect** — Optional: no
- **PubMed** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **dbt** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 23

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-29T20:47:05Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-19T20:17:48Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-22T20:35:48Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 59
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.793
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 24
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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