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Senior Principal Data Engineer

AT Novartis
Novartis

Senior Principal Data Engineer

Hyderabad, India

Summary

As a Data Engineer you will build data intensive products, pipelines and systems leveraging data engineering best practices and strength in data ingestion, modeling, extraction, and highly scalable data management systems

About the Role

Where data is the primary challenge (quantity of data, the complexity of data, or the speed at which it is changing), increasing business value, enhancing BR decision-making and enabling a data-centric culture by

  • implementing data-intensive products, platforms, pipelines, and systems
  • sharing data-intensive expertise, tools, and techniques
  • implementing and improving the health, security, integrity, and quality of our interconnected data ecosystem

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Major Accountabilities:

  • Build and deploy production systems for scientists who have high expectations for quality, turnaround, performance and reliability.
  • Contribute to the creation of a reusable, reliable, observable platform for ingesting a large number of heterogeneous data sets from numerous disparate sources, including all of the major cloud providers
  • Participate in and promote professional data engineering practices as appropriate within your team.
  • Ensure adherence to Novartis global Information Security and Quality standards and policies for all products/services.

Essential Requirements:

  • Experience developing components of a cloud-based solution at scale
  • Demonstrated understanding of data processing engines, data ingestion, modeling, extraction, and metadata
  • Demonstrated ability to work well as part of a high-performing engineering team
  • Experience building or enhancing ETL pipelines using cloud-centric technologies
  • Interest in intersection between the life sciences and computer science
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively within your team
  • Experience adhering to a standard software development lifecycle, including build platforms (Jenkins) and source repositories (Git)
  • Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a dynamic environment
  • Able to work independently while consulting and informing the broader team

Desirable Requirement

  • Linux, shell scripts / bash
  • Javascript / Typescript / Node.js
  • Experience with Python a plus
  • Experience coding with restful APIs
  • Experience using browser developer tools, such as Postman
  • Demonstrated understanding of AWS technologies such as EC2, S3, Lambda
  • Basic statistics / numeral literacy

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our
people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You'll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we'll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Division
Biomedical Research

Business Unit
Pharma Research

Location
India

Site
Hyderabad (Office)

Company / Legal Entity
IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited

Functional Area
Research & Development

Job Type
Full time

Employment Type
Regular

Shift Work
No

Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job ID: Novartis-REQ-10019237
Employment Type: Full Time