Senior Principal or Principal Systems Engineer -Computational Innovation

Description

As a Senior Principal or Principal Systems Engineer within IT RDM Computational Biology, you will play a pivotal role supporting our colleagues across Computational Innovation (CI). You will combine deep technical expertise with a strong customer centric mindset to ensure robust, scalable, and modern compute environments and workflows that accelerate scientific discovery. You will serve as a technical expert for Linux-based research systems, workflow orchestration, data science platforms, CI/CD processes, and cloud integrated environments. Your work directly impacts Boehringer Ingelheim's R&D pipeline by empowering scientists with reliable, performant, and secure computational capabilities.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies´ success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim´s high regard for our employees.

Compensation Data

This position offers a base salary typically between $115,000 to $181,000. The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements. For an overview of our benefits please click here.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality user and system support to Computational Innovation colleagues, acting as a trusted technical partner
• Support R/Python scientific tooling, libraries, and execution environments
• Support troubleshooting automation and computational workflows (e.g., Nextflow)
• Support AWS services like S3, EC2, SageMaker (and/or Databricks)
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across infrastructure, applications, and workflows
• Implement and maintain Jenkins pipelines for research applications and automations
• Operate, maintain, and continuously improve research IT systems throughout their full system life cycle (design → deployment → maintenance → retirement)
• Collaborate with global IT, platform teams, and scientists to scale cloud enabled compute environments

Requirements

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Associate degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field with minimum 11 years experience; or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, or MIS, or related field with a minimum 9 years of experience; or a Master in Computer Science, MIS, or related experience with minimum of 7 years of experience; or relevant Business or IT experience of minimum of 11 years.

Principal Systems Engineer

Associate degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field with 7 years experience; or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field with 5 years of experience; or a Master in Computer Science, MIS, or related field with a minimum of 3 years of experience; or relevant Business or IT experience of a minimum of 7 years.

Additional

• Proven experience in hands-on user support, ideally within scientific or data driven environments
• Advanced Linux administration skills in a networked environment, e.g. HPC
• Experience working with R and Python-based notebook environments (e.g. SageMaker, Databricks, Jupyter)
• Practical experience with Nextflow is an asset
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g. OpenShift,Jenkins)
• Familiarity with AWS core services (S3, EC2 at minimum)
• Strong background in application development and operations (DevOps mindset preferred)
• Demonstrated experience managing complete system life cycles

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required)
• Must be 18 years of age or older

Our Company

With us, you can develop your own path in a company with a culture that knows our differences are our strengths - and break new ground in the drive to make millions of lives better.

Here, your development is our priority. Supporting you to build a career as part of a workplace that is independent, authentic and bold, while tackling challenging work in a respectful and friendly environment where everyone is valued and welcomed.

Alongside, you have access to programs and groups that ensure your health and wellbeing are looked after - as we make major investments to drive global accessibility to healthcare. By being part of a team that is constantly innovating, you'll be helping to transform lives for generations.

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