Principal Data Engineer
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ABOUT THE ROLE
Role Description:
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. We are looking for highly motivated expert Principal Data Engineer who can own the design & development of complex data pipelines, solutions and frameworks. The ideal candidate will be responsible to design, develop, and optimize data pipelines, data integration frameworks, and metadata-driven architectures that enable seamless data access and analytics. This role prefers deep expertise in big data processing, distributed computing, data modeling, and governance frameworks to support self-service analytics, AI-driven insights, and enterprise-wide data management.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Architect and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, and Delta Lake, enabling efficient batch and real-time processing.
- Lead efforts to evaluate, adopt, and integrate emerging technologies and tools that enhance productivity, scalability, and data delivery capabilities.
- Drive performance optimization efforts, including Spark tuning, resource utilization, job scheduling, and query improvements.
- Identify and implement innovative solutions that streamline data ingestion, transformation, lineage tracking, and platform observability.
- Build frameworks for metadata-driven data engineering, enabling reusability and consistency across pipelines.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the data engineering team.
- Collaborate with platform, architecture, analytics, and governance teams to align platform enhancements with enterprise data strategy.
- Define and uphold SLOs, monitoring standards, and data quality KPIs for production pipelines and infrastructure.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable, governed data products.
- Mentor engineers across the team, promoting knowledge sharing and adoption of modern engineering patterns and tools.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data architects, business analysts, and DevOps teams, to align data engineering strategies with enterprise goals.
- Stay up to date with emerging data technologies and best practices, ensuring continuous improvement of Enterprise Data Fabric architectures.
Must-Have Skills:
- Hands-on experience in data engineering technologies such as Databricks, PySpark, SparkSQL Apache Spark, AWS, Python, SQL, and Scaled Agile methodologies.
- Proficiency in workflow orchestration, performance tuning on big data processing.
- Strong understanding of AWS services
- Experience with Data Fabric, Data Mesh, or similar enterprise-wide data architectures.
- Ability to quickly learn, adapt and apply new technologies
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile delivery practices, and DevOps practices.
Good-to-Have Skills:
- Good to have deep expertise in Biotech & Pharma industries
- Experience in writing APIs to make the data available to the consumers
- Experienced with SQL/NOSQL database, vector database for large language models
- Experienced with data modeling and performance tuning for both OLAP and OLTP databases
- Experienced with software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control (Git, Subversion, etc.), CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven etc.), automated unit testing, and Dev Ops
Education and Professional Certifications
- 12 to 17 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field
- AWS Certified Data Engineer preferred
- Databricks Certificate preferred
- Scaled Agile SAFe certification preferred
Soft Skills:
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
- High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
- Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.
- Ability to learn quickly, be organized and detail oriented.
- Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
Company at a glance
Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We helped establish the biotechnology industry, and we remain on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today. Our investment in research and development has yielded a robust pipeline that builds on our existing portfolio of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, inflammatory diseases and rare diseases.
Amgen is one of 30 companies comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average®, and part of the Nasdaq-100 Index®. In 2024, Amgen was named one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company and one of “America’s Best Large Employers” by Forbes.
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