Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a hands‑on Technical Lead to lead the development and operation of its Microsoft Fabric‑based Platform. This role combines data platform architecture, hands‑on engineering, technical leadership, and business partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and engineering of the Microsoft Fabric data lake‑house, including OneLake, medallion architecture, Spark/SQL, and CI/CD.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, and architectural guidance to data and analytics engineers.
• Design and build scalable data pipelines integrating 50+ enterprise source systems.
• Partner with business stakeholders across R&D, Commercial, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Corporate functions to translate business needs into data solutions.
• Manage and technically oversee external implementation partners, ensuring engineering quality and adherence to standards.
• Establish platform support models, SLAs, monitoring, data quality, incident management, and operational processes.
• Define and track platform KPIs such as pipeline reliability, data freshness, query performance, onboarding velocity, and incident resolution.
• Develop the semantic layer, including Power BI datasets, gold‑layer views, and self‑service analytics.
• Implement data governance, security, classification, RBAC, sensitivity labeling, and audit requirements.
• Establish engineering standards for development, testing, branching, documentation, and deployment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or analytics infrastructure.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience with data/analytics engineers.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Fabric; Databricks or Azure Synapse experience may be considered.
• Strong proficiency in PySpark, Python, T‑SQL, ETL/ELT, and modern data engineering practices.
• Experience with medallion/layered data architecture at enterprise scale.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Azure DevOps/GitHub, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Knowledge of data governance and quality frameworks such as Microsoft Purview.
• Experience managing technical delivery from external vendors.

Preferred

• Biopharma, life sciences, or other regulated‑industry experience, including GxP and validation requirements.
• Experience with Veeva, LIMS, ELN/Benchling, CTMS, EDC, MasterControl, or HRIS integrations.
• Experience with AI/ML workloads on a lake‑house.
• Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering certification.

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