Senior Data Engineer — Life Sciences Data & AI Platforms

Abbott Laboratories; Sligo Municipal Borough District; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family health insurance

Excellent pension scheme

Life assurance

Career development

Job summary

Abbott Diabetes Care is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and scale data products and platforms that power analytics, automation and AI across the business. You will collaborate with data scientists, architects and IT partners to ensure data quality, governance and compliance in a highly regulated Life Sciences environment.

You’ll establish standard processes, deliver end‑to‑end data capabilities, and drive a data‑driven culture while supporting global teams and diverse priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise‑scale data engineering solutions.
• Strong experience with AWS Cloud technologies, Databricks, Python, Spark, and SQL.
• Experience implementing Data Governance and Data Quality practices.
• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, analytics, and reporting solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience working in highly regulated Life Sciences environments with data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Data Engineering Strategy & Delivery: design, develop, and maintain scalable data products, pipelines, and platforms that support analytics and AI use cases.
• Data Quality, Governance & Reliability: implement quality controls, monitoring, and validation for trusted data products.
• AI, Analytics & Digital Enablement: build foundations to support analytics, ML, AI, automation, and self‑service reporting.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership: partner with business stakeholders and cross‑functional teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: stay current with cloud tech and modern data architectures; promote engineering best practices.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Databricks

Python

Spark

SQL

Data Governance

Data Quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Data Engineering / Software Engineering / Information Systems

Tools

Oracle databases

Cloud platforms

Job description

Abbott Diabetes Care is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and scale data products and platforms that power analytics, automation and AI across the business. You will collaborate with data scientists, architects and IT partners to ensure data quality, governance and compliance in a highly regulated Life Sciences environment.

You’ll establish standard processes, deliver end‑to‑end data capabilities, and drive a data‑driven culture while supporting global teams and diverse priorities.