Principal Data Engineer (Research, Manufacturing, Supply Chain) - REMOTE

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation, and they are seeking a dedicated Principal Data Engineer to lead their Data Engineering team. The role involves developing and maintaining data assets to support scientists in making informed decisions across research, manufacturing, and supply chain.

Responsibilities:

• Data Engineering – Integrate & curate data from research systems & artifacts to support analytics, modelling, machine learning, and investigation. Collaborate closely with our research engagement teams to understand requirements, and translate them into data solutions
• Data Engineering management - Manage, maintain, and improve the Vertex Data Platform solutions that support & enable research scientists and manufacturing and supply chain analytics teams
• Delivery management – Estimate, architect, and execute on delivery of critical data solutions across research, manufacturing, and supply chain domains in partnership with the DSE leadership team
• Operations Management – Manage a team of data engineers to maintain compliant, timely, secure, and reliable data workloads for Research. Work alongside our DSE MLOps team to support complex workloads that leverage curated & model ready data
• Innovation champion - Advocate for process enhancements and opportunities to improve our capabilities with a focus on efficiency, scale, and data connectivity

Requirements:

• Minimum of 9 years of development experience using Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, or equivalent data technologies
• Minimum of 9 years of experience in pharmaceutical research, with an emphasis on data engineering, data science, data integrity, and data governance
• Prior experience leading Data Engineering projects and teams
• 3+ years leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or equivalent cloud data platforms
• Demonstrated experience with pipeline technologies like Astronomer / Airflow, MLFlow, etc
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects that require collaboration across functional areas
• Skillful, collaborative team player able to develop rapport and credibility with stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to teach, engage and support others as they learn new technologies and concepts
• Enthusiasm for and the ability to quickly learn new technologies and tackle difficult problems
• Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of key workflow tools, including JIRA and Confluence