Data Engineer Submission Data and Content Generation & Reuse (AIDCG) - Pharma R&D

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,600,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Senior IT Data Engineer to lead, design, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure. You will independently build ETL/ELT processes, optimize data storage solutions, ensure data quality, and monitor data systems while collaborating with data scientists and analysts.

The role requires strong SQL and programming skills (Python/Scala), experience with Spark and Hadoop, and hands-on cloud platform knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP). CET time zone alignment noted for Hyderabad.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and data storage solutions.
• Hands-on ETL/ELT development and data quality monitoring across data warehouses and lakes.
• Proficiency in SQL and programming in Python/Scala for data processing.
• Experience with one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines.
• Solve complex data ingestion and processing problems and optimize data flows.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to meet data requirements.
• Integrate data from databases, APIs, applications, files, streaming platforms, and third‑party systems.
• Develop robust data transformation workflows using SQL, Python, and distributed processing technologies.
• Manage large-scale data systems and ensure reliable data flow across platforms.
• Create reusable components and follow Git, CI/CD, testing, and documentation practices.
• Work with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Java

Scala

Big data

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Git

CI/CD

Parquet

Delta Lake

JSON

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Senior IT Data Engineer

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position Job description

The Senior IT Data Engineer is responsible for leading, designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and robust data pipelines and infrastructure. This role involves independently building ETL/ELT processes, optimizing data storage solutions (such as data warehouses and data lakes), ensuring data quality and reliability, and monitoring data systems. You will collaborate closely with data scientists and analysts to meet their specific data requirements, utilizing strong programming skills in Python or Scala, expert SQL knowledge, and proficiency in big data technologies like Spark.

Job Responsibilities

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Leads the design, build, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines. Works independently to execute specific data engineering projects from start to finish.
• Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves complex data ingestion and processing problems. Optimizes data flows and actively enhances overall system performance.
• Stakeholder Management: Engages directly with broader business units and data scientists to thoroughly understand and meet their data needs. Communicates effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Integrate data from databases, APIs, applications, files, streaming platforms, and third‑party systems.
• Develop robust data transformation and processing workflows using SQL, Python, and distributed processing technologies.
• Impact/Strategy: Handles big‑sized data engineering projects. Implements robust strategies that significantly improve the organization's data infrastructure.
• Complexity / (Product Size): Manages complex, large‑scale data systems. Integrates multiple diverse data sources and ensures efficient, reliable data flow across platforms.
• Develop reusable engineering components and follow software engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Collaborate with technical leads across Data, Content, Integration, UI, and Platform, as well as architects, product teams, and business stakeholders, to translate business and technical requirements into scalable solutions.

Qualifications Education / Experience

• Demonstrated experience handling big‑sized data engineering projects and managing complex, large‑scale data systems.
• Proven track record of independently building ETL/ELT processes and optimizing data storage solutions such as data warehouses and data lakes.
• Experience ensuring data quality, reliability, and monitoring data systems.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Understanding of data formats and technologies such as Parquet, JSON, Delta Lake.
• Strong understanding of data quality, reliability, security, and governance principles.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in programming languages such as SQL, Python, Java, or Scala.
• Strong, expert knowledge of cloud platforms and Big Data tools, specifically Hadoop and Spark.
• Advanced capability to solve complex data ingestion and processing problems, and to optimize data flows for enhanced system performance.

Additional Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the proven ability to engage effectively with both technical audiences (like data scientists) and non‑technical business stakeholders.

Shift: CET time zone #Hyderabad2026

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.