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Position OverviewAs a Lead Data Engineer, your pivotal responsibility involves spearheading data initiatives and integrating top-tier data solutions. This role presents a thrilling chance to contribute to innovative projects and engage with a team of committed experts. Your proficiency is instrumental in elevating our competitiveness and ensuring seamless implementation of our data strategies!
Key Responsibilities- Lead the build, development, and optimization of scalable, secure, and high-performance data pipelines and architectures.
- Lead and guide a team of data engineers and analysts, encouraging teamwork and technical excellence.
- Implement standard methodologies for DataOps across the platform to uphold 99.99%+ availability, reliability, and recovery standards.
- Build and maintain robust data models and frameworks, ensuring they align with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including analytics, product, and business units to deliver high-impact, data-driven solutions.
- Ensure data quality and validation through automated testing, monitoring, and anomaly detection techniques.
- Own planning, prioritization, and execution of data engineering projects — delivering on time and within scope.
- Contribute to platform scalability, performance tuning, and migration initiatives, including support for real-time data flows.
- Deliver technical documentation and code reviews to uphold engineering standards and maintain knowledge continuity.
- Support data privacy, security, and compliance requirements in line with global regulatory standards.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Proven experience (5+ years) in data engineering with a strong understanding of modern data architecture, pipelines, and operations.
- Expertise in ETL/ELT tools, data warehousing, and cloud-native platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL, Apache Spark, and Python (experience with Pandas preferred).
- Proficient in working with large datasets and performance optimization for distributed computing environments.
- Prior experience with tools like Informatica, Cognos, SQL Server, and Oracle is a strong plus.
- Deep understanding of data modeling, metadata management, and data governance frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience in leading engineering teams and managing project lifecycles.
- Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps practices, version control systems (e.g., GitHub), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and collaborator management skills.
- Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Why Join Us?
This is your chance to work on exceptionally impactful projects and grow your career in an encouraging and innovative environment!
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What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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