Senior Data Engineer - Data Management, Analytics, DS&AI

Job Description Summary

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!
As a Senior Data Engineer - Global Development, Portfolio & Pipeline (GDPP), you will build, own, and maintain the data pipelines that bring GDPP data from source systems into Sandoz's enterprise data platform. You will play a key role in transforming complex business data into trusted, business-ready data products, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. This position offers the opportunity to shape the data foundation supporting regulatory, portfolio, quality, and biosimilar development functions.

Job Description

As a Senior Data Engineer - Global Development, Portfolio & Pipeline (GDPP), you will build, own, and maintain the data pipelines that bring GDPP data from source systems into Sandoz's enterprise data platform. You will play a key role in transforming complex business data into trusted, business-ready data products, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. This position offers the opportunity to shape the data foundation supporting regulatory, portfolio, quality, and biosimilar development functions.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines from GDPP source systems into the enterprise data platform.
• Implement and operationalize the enterprise data model by building robust transformations that cleanse, standardize, and integrate source data.
• Build and maintain business-ready datasets and data products aligned with business requirements and data product specifications.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize pipeline performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement data quality controls, validation frameworks, and automated checks to ensure trusted and accurate data assets.
• Work across Databricks and AWS-based environments, including S3, ECS/ECR, Python-based ETL processes, and cloud-native data services.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for data flows, transformation logic, lineage, and operational processes.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, business stakeholders, analysts, and SMEs to translate requirements into effective data solutions.
• KPI: Ensure high availability, reliability, and quality of enterprise data pipelines supporting business-critical reporting and analytics.

What You'll Bring to the Role

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience as a Data Engineer building and supporting production-grade data pipelines with medium to large-scale datasets.
• Strong expertise in SQL with deep experience in analytical queries, data transformations, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with dbt or comparable transformation frameworks and modern data modeling methodologies.
• Proficiency in Python for data ingestion, automation, and transformation workflows.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks, Apache Spark, and AWS services.
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git) and modern engineering practices including testing, code reviews, and CI/CD.
• Ability to own solutions end-to-end, including design, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities with experience handling complex and imperfect source data.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to work directly with business teams.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience within the pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality management, metadata management, and regulatory compliance practices.

You'll Receive:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexible and hybrid working environment.
• Learning and development opportunities to support career growth.
• Access to global collaboration and career mobility opportunities.
• Inclusive culture focused on innovation, well-being, and continuous improvement.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

Skills Desired

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Communication Skills, Continuous Integration (Ci), Decision Making Skills, Influencing Skills, Innovation, IT Infrastructures, IT Management, IT Operations, Lean Product Development, Stakeholder Management, System Integration