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

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation. They are seeking a dedicated Principal Data Engineer to lead and manage their Data Engineering team, enabling scientists with data to make informed decisions across research, manufacturing, and supply chain domains.

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