The Role
The Data Engineer builds and maintains the enterprise data platform, ensures reliability, designs ETL systems, and collaborates on data projects to support client needs.
Summary Generated by Built In
Beghou brings over three decades of experience helping life sciences companies optimize their commercialization through strategic insight, advanced analytics, and technology. From developing go-to-market strategies and building foundational data analytics infrastructures to leveraging artificial intelligence to improve customer insights and engagement, Beghou helps life sciences companies maximize performance across their portfolios. Beghou also deploys proprietary and third-party technology solutions to help companies forecast performance, design territories, manage customer data, organize, and report on medical and commercial data, and more. Headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, we have 10 global offices.
Our mission is to bring together analytical minds and innovative technology to help life sciences companies navigate the complexity of health care and improve patient outcomes.
This position builds front-end and back-end infrastructure for the firm’s in-house enterprise data platform as well as explores, enables, and documents new technologies. This position also works independently to support client teams with different data needs, including deployment for new clients, support for existing clients, development of backend datasets for dashboards, and support for the front-end.
We'll trust you to:
- Ensures reliability and stability of the enterprise data platform and tools used by internal teams and clients.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the data platform components (warehouse, monitoring, language, etc.) and data engineering (ETL design, schema design, etc.) and performs unit testing.
- Builds and enhances data integration, management, and analytics tools and pipelines.
- Documents code, deployments, best practices, and improvements.
- Designs and builds ETL/ELT data systems, including cloud-based APIs, automated data transfer systems, and code management solutions.
- Acts as a regular point of contact for data engineering projects and collaborates with the internal consulting team and the data platform and technology teams to complete projects for clients.
- Participates in and contributes ideas to brainstorm, design, and implement more complex processes and analyses to solve challenging and abstract problems.
- Develops and implements best practice guidance and supporting materials for data management and advanced analytics pipelines.
- Creates high-quality presentations, deliverables, and code that meet objectives, with project manager guidance.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
You'll need to have:
- At least 5 years’ experience in data engineering using Python, including the use of pandas or PySpark.
- Experience working with Databricks extensively (including installing packages, understanding and setting cluster configurations, managing jobs, user management, handling permissions, managing Unity Catalogues, Databricks APIs and AI tools, and handling configuration issues) and relational database technologies, such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake.
- Software development fundamentals, including Agile development, version control systems such as Git or DevOps, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Experience configuring Azure AD/SAML/Okta/Oath and administering AWS or Azure security best practices, preferred.
- Experience with WYSIWYG ETL tools (Azure Data Factory, Informatica, Snap Logic, Boomi), preferred.
- Container orchestration systems experience using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, preferred.
- At least 6 months of experience in web application development using Flask, Django, JavaScript, Ajax, or CSS/HTML is preferred.
- Candidates holding a recognized data engineering certification are preferred (e.g., Databricks Data Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Azure Data/Fabric Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Engineer).
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office products, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Life Sciences industry experience, preferred.
- Experience: 5 - 7 years
At Beghou Consulting, you'll join a highly collaborative, values-driven team where technical excellence, analytical rigor, and personal growth converge. Whether you're passionate about AI innovation, building commercialization strategies, or shaping the next generation of data-first solutions in life sciences, this is a place to make an impact!
Top Skills
Ajax
Aws Ecs
Azure Data Factory
Boomi
CSS
Databricks
Django
Docker
Flask
HTML
Informatica
JavaScript
Kubernetes
MySQL
Oracle
Pandas
Postgres
Pyspark
Python
Redshift
Snap Logic
Snowflake
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The Company
What We Do
Beghou Consulting provides sales force and marketing consulting services to clients in the pharmaceutical and health care industries. We bring significant expertise in addressing sales and marketing issues and in developing advanced analytic approaches to support our clients' decision-making. We pride ourselves on our growing list of long-term clients, for whom we deliver an increasing array of services and analyses. Our clients are developing and launching innovative, high-profile products, and as such require a partner that provides similarly innovative insights and processes to support their sales force and marketing management.
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