Data Engineer

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How Will You Make An Impact?

The Data Engineerwill be part of the NA Marketing Science team within the Research and Safety NA division. They will work with Data Science and Data Architecture teams to build Databricks-based data pipelines and bring data onto our enterprise-level data platform for Data Science, Analytics and Digital Marketing needs. The data platform is primarily based on Oracle Exadata database and Databricks-based Delta technologies for critical application and business enablementA Day in the Life:

• Work cross-functionality to understand data opportunities and build pipelines and dictionaries for potential data sources

• Evaluate integration capabilities and opportunities to leverage and automate 3rd party data

• Design, develop, test, deploy, support, enhance data integration solutions to connect and integrate enterprise systems

• Follow agile development methodologies to deliver solutions and product features by following DevOps practices.

• Assist with implementing standard operating procedures, facilitate requirements gathering and  review sessions with functional owners and end-user representatives, and leverage technical knowledge and expertise to drive improvements.

• Support standard processes for defining, designing and documenting reference architecture and leading the implementation of BI and analytical solutions.

Minimum Requirements:

• 4-year degree with a major in computer science engineering (or equivalent) from an accredited university plus at least one year of relevant experience or a minimum of 8-10 years professional IT experience

• Strong prior technical, development background in either data Services or Engineering

• Proven experience in Databricks/Spark-based Data Engineering Pipeline development and Data/Delta Lake, Oracle, or AWS Redshift type relational databases.

Preferred Requirements:

• 3+ years working experience in Python-based data integration and pipeline development.

• Data lake and Delta Lake experience with AWS Glue and Athena.

• Proven experience with AWS Cloud on data integration with various ecosystems.

• Strong experience in python development especially in AWS Cloud environment with knowledge of common python libraries

• Strong experience with source control systems such as Git and Jenkins

• Demonstrated experience resolving complex data integration problems.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to work multi-functionally and present solutions to variety of technical and non-technical audiences

• Highly determined, execution-focused, with ability to balance multiple priorities in an effective manner

• Adept at debugging and solving problems

• Ability to design, develop test, deploy, maintain, and improve data integration pipeline

• Strong analytical experience with database in query optimization, debugging, user defined functions, views, indexes etc.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Pennsylvania is $75,800.00–$113,675.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards