Senior Data Engineer — AI for Biomedical Discovery

Biopharma Careers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Boehringer Ingelheim's AI Accelerator in London seeks a Senior Staff Data Engineer to own data engineering architecture and standards for a multimodal biomedical data foundation enabling model training and deployment.

You will lead strategic data engineering directions, architect medallion‑style data ecosystems, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Data Excellence and IT to govern and harmonise datasets. Hybrid work is available.

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in a STEM subject or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience directing data engineering at senior levels.
• Experience mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction, strategy and roadmap for data engineering, aligned to AI Accelerator priorities.
• Own the data engineering architecture for the AI Accelerator, defining and evolving a layered ("medallion"-style) architecture, feature and embedding provisioning patterns, and the harmonised multimodal data foundation that underpins model development.
• Establish data engineering standards and engineering practices, including data quality controls, testing, CI/CD for data, reproducibility standards, data contracts, metadata management and dataset versioning.
• Deliver hands‑on leadership on the most difficult and highest‑impact data engineering challenges, including integrating novel and complex modalities such as genomics, transcriptomics, imaging, clinical and real‑world datasets.
• Partner with the Data Excellence community and IT to align on governance, ontologies, metadata harmonisation, stewardship and shared enterprise data foundations.
• Establish ways of working and coach other team members, onboarding, mentoring and technically leading data engineers as the team scales, while acting as the senior escalation point for complex data engineering challenges.

Skills

Senior staff level data engineering

Mentoring data engineers

Stakeholder communication

Education

PhD or MSc in STEM

Tools

Distributed processing frameworks

Pipeline orchestration

Cloud data platforms

Data governance tools

Job description

Boehringer Ingelheim's AI Accelerator in London seeks a Senior Staff Data Engineer to own data engineering architecture and standards for a multimodal biomedical data foundation enabling model training and deployment.

You will lead strategic data engineering directions, architect medallion‑style data ecosystems, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Data Excellence and IT to govern and harmonise datasets. Hybrid work is available.