Data engineer for clinical studies

Bayer; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 206,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office allowance

Company car

Extra Paid Holidays

Medical care above statutory

Pension plan

Job summary

Bayer ищет старшего инженера по данным в команде Data & AI в Варшаве. Ваша задача — проектировать и эксплуатировать конвейеры клинических данных в рамках GxP‑валидируемых процессов, обеспечивая своевременный и безопасный доступ к данным для учёных, аналитиков и ИИ-агентов.

Вы будете тесно сотрудничать с бизнес‑и IT‑специалистами, применять инфраструктуру‑as‑code, работать в гибридном формате и поддерживать масштабируемую архитектуру данных, включая Databricks, Python и облачные сервисы.

Qualifications

• Высшее образование в смежной области; 5+ лет опыта в создании производственных пайплайнов.
• Опыт работы с Databricks и инструментами DevOps; владение Python и PySpark.
• Навыки проектирования API и интеграции данных из разных источников.

Responsibilities

• Разработка и эксплуатация надежных конвейеров данных для клинических данных.
• Сотрудничество с бизнес и IT в рамках гибкой методологии; сбор требований.
• Согласованная архитектура, обеспечение качества и безопасность данных.

Skills

Python PySpark

Databricks

Git & CI/CD

Terraform

AWS

Data pipelines

Education

Бакалавр в компьютерных науках / IT

Tools

DBX Asset Bundles

Unity Catalog

Kapitan

GitHub Actions

Job description

Описание:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are part of Bayer's Data & AI Team with a focus on creating data solutions that provide timely, high‑quality data to scientists, analysts, and AI agents. You will closely collaborate with experts from business and IT to design, implement and operate reliable GxP-validated data pipelines that enable timely and secure access to high-quality data for clinical studies in our Clinical Data Lakehouse, combining a solid understanding for the clinical data flow with excellent technical and conceptual skills.

Задачи:

• Lead the development and operation of reliable data pipelines to store, transform, share and analyze clinical data, enabling an efficient clinical dataflow in compliance to legal and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate closely with relevant stakeholders in an agile setup to capture, specify and address data‑related requirements and dependencies to ensure a fit‑for‑purpose technical implementation in a healthy data ecosystem.
• Actively exchange with peers, embracing and applying best‑practices to maintain a coherent, consolidated and scalable data landscape.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of integration patterns, FAIR data principles and semantics to enable efficient, compliant, and secure data consumption by humans, systems, and AI agents within and beyond the primary data context.
• Collaborate with infrastructure experts to ensure a robust, efficient, secure and fit‑for‑purpose setup, leveraging infrastructure‑as‑code and composable architecture.
• Mentor less‑experienced collagues and uphold high standards in requirements specification, engineering practices, code review, testing, and documentation.

Требования:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data operations, or a similar role, delivering production‑grade data pipelines and services.
• Strong ownership of deliverables, high standards for code review and peer mentorship, and a commitment to clear documentation, metadata/lineage publishing, and sustainable data engineering standards and practices.
• Proficiency with Databricks, including DBX Asset Bundles, Lakeflow Jobs, Unity Catalog, Access control and governance model and Databricks CLI.
• Experience with API design patterns and Ability to integrate data from source systems using various interface patterns, such as OpenSharing/Delta Sharing, Iceberg‑Sharing, ODBC, GraphQL, OData, REST, or event streaming.
• Strong engineering skills (data engineering, software engineering, or cloud engineering).
• Proficiency in Python programming, especially PySpark and Kapitan.
• Experience in Git, including Github Actions, CI/CD Pipelines (declarative YAML), Branching strategies, and trunk‑based development.
• Understanding of data security principles and practices.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Good communication and collaboration abilities to work independently in a self‑organized team.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Будет плюсом:

• Experience with GxP validation and Computerized Systems Validation.
• Experience in Requirements Engineering.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure‑as‑code, ideally Terraform on AWS.
• In‑depth knowledge of FAIR Data Principles, Linked Data principles, and Data Mesh architecture concepts, with demonstrated ability to apply them in practice.
• Experience with semantic layer concepts in modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience designing and implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
• Hands‑on experience with GraphRAG solution design and implementation.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Cloud engineering experience (e.g. AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge in the pharmaceutical domain (e.g. LOINC, SNOMED CT, omics, targets, assays, clinical studies, RWE, etc.).

Условия:

• The minimum monthly gross compensation for this role is 20 240 PLN, with final pay determined based on objective factors such as experience, qualifications, scope of responsibility, and internal alignment.
• This position is eligible for variable pay components, such as performance‑based bonuses, awarded in accordance with the applicable employee group, role scope, and compensation structure.
• Medical care above statutory requirements.
• Flexible benefits supporting leisure, and well‑being/sports programs.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance through group coverage.
• Employer‑supported pension plans with regular company contributions.
• Home office allowance to support hybrid or remote work.
• Company car provided (as a working Benefit).
• Extra Paid Holidays.
• Bayer offers the possibility of working in a hybrid model. We know how important work‑life balance is, so our employees can work from home, from the office or combine both work environments. The possibilities of using the hybrid model are each time discussed with the manager.