About Us:
Working in data engineering at Elsevier means your work truly matters — it powers the insights that drive healthcare, education, and scientific discovery. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll help build the foundation for data-driven decision making across the organization, collaborating with teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions.
About the Team:
Our Data Engineering team powers the backbone of Elsevier’s analytics and AI platforms, enabling products like Scopus, ScienceDirect, and next‑generation research solutions. We design and maintain scalable data pipelines, ensuring reliable, high‑quality data delivery for advanced analytics, machine learning, and decision‑support systems. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement—great ideas can come from anywhere.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a passionate Senior Data Engineer I to support the activities in a senior capacity. There are many ETL pipelines, data stores, dataset generation and content retrieval capabilities that require continuous modification, execution and support. The team works closely with both product and other platform teams to meet business requirements, organization policies and evolving standards.
Responsibilities:
Maintaining, designing, extending and improving robust and scalable pipelines, following clean code and best-practice software engineering principles
Working with technologies including Java (Spring) microservices, Airflow, AWS, SQL, shell scripting, git, GitHub Actions and SFTP
Collaborating with operations to build and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor the services and automating common tasks mercilessly
Regularly collaborating with business partners on priorities while still maintaining alignment with architectural and security standards and policies.
Supporting the Tech Lead and more junior engineers, providing code reviews and giving guidance, planning of work with our product partners and ensuring execution of high-level deliverables on timelines
Requirements:
A passionate team leader in data engineering with 4-6 years of strong commercial software engineering experience delivering server-side applications
Excellent programming skills with Java and Python
Experience with Java 17+, Spring, AWS, XML parsing, SQL
Experience with ETL, Oracle/MySQL DB, Python, Airflow
An advocate of best practices for rapid development of quality software, including clean code, architectural design patterns and CI/CD
Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job
An inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to our customers
Nice to have
Experience with large-scale, content management systems and big data
Work in a way that works for you:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals.
Working for you:
We know that your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Private Medical/Dental Plan
Savings Fund
Life Insurance
Meal/Grocery Voucher
About Elsevier:
Elsevier is a global information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare, and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We empower professionals and institutions to realize the potential of information to improve academic, corporate, and clinical performance, expand human knowledge, and generate positive—often groundbreaking—outcomes in critical domains of human endeavor.
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Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, and deliver better care.
Because informed decisions lead to better outcomes, Elsevier is a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society.
We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
