Data Engineer

BGBx; Greater London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Holidays

Wellness benefits

Life insurance

Learning & development

Collaborative culture

Job summary

BGBx is seeking a Data Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to design, build, and maintain data pipelines that extract, process, and transform data into reliable datasets for analysis. You will work with Python and SQL, across cloud data warehouses, and orchestration tools to support analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

The role involves large-scale datasets, cloud-based infrastructure, and a fast-moving environment focused on healthcare data solutions.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years hands-on data engineering experience building and maintaining data pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with at least one cloud data warehouse (BigQuery/Redshift/Snowflake/etc.).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte.
• Cloud platform experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong database knowledge and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Extract, clean, transform, and model data from internal and external sources.
• Develop data solutions using Python and SQL.
• Work with large-scale datasets and cloud-based data infrastructure.
• Support data consumers, including analysts, data scientists, and product teams.
• Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot failures, and optimize performance.

Skills

Data engineering experience (3-5 yrs)

Python

SQL

Tools

BigQuery

Redshift

Snowflake

ClickHouse

Greenplum

Vertica

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Flyte

Job description

About Us

At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges. Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day. If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Data Engineer with 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining data pipelines. You will develop solutions that extract, process, and transform internal and external data into reliable, usable datasets for analysis and other downstream applications. This is an engineering-focused role requiring strong coding skills, database knowledge, and experience working with modern cloud data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Extract, clean, transform, and model data from internal and external sources.
• Develop data solutions using Python and SQL.
• Work with large-scale datasets and cloud-based data infrastructure.
• Support data consumers, including analysts, data scientists, and product teams.
• Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot failures, and optimize performance.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on data engineering experience building and maintaining data pipelines.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with at least one cloud data warehouse, such as BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Greenplum, or Vertica.
• Familiarity with an orchestration tool such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte.
• Cloud platform experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong database knowledge and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with BI/visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Superset, or Metabase.
• Knowledge of data modeling concepts such as dimensional modeling or Data Vault.
• Experience with Spark, Databricks, or Apache Beam.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Open-source contributions or other technical projects demonstrating hands-on engineering skills.

Why Join Us?

• Small team energy, big company support-backed by BGBx and Kx
• High-impact work, early responsibility-you'll contribute from day one
• A learning-first culture-mentorship, peer support, and space to grow
• A genuinely fun, curious environment-we take the work seriously, not ourselves
• Strategy meets creativity-where insight, brand, and behavior collide
• A future-facing mission-everything we do aims to improve lives

If you're ready to bring curiosity, strategy, and creativity together to reimagine healthcare-and make a real difference to people's lives, let's talk.

Salary range: EUR60,000 - EUR75,000 /year base plus bonus eligible

What We Offer

At BGBx, we invest in our people because exceptional talent drives exceptional work. We provide a competitive rewards package designed to support your health, well-being, professional growth, and life outside of work.

Our benefits package typically includes health care insurance, retirement plans, generous paid time off and holidays, wellness benefits, life insurance, learning and development opportunities, and other resources that support our employees throughout their careers. Additional benefits may be available based on your location. Beyond benefits, you'll find a culture built on collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on healthcare and the people it serves.

BGBx is an equal opportunity employer.All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.