Expert Data Engineer, Research, Innovation & Labs

Job Title: Expert Data Engineer, Research, Innovation & Labs

Join us as Expert Data Engineer, Research, Innovation & Labs to design and maintain robust data pipelines, ensuring seamless data integration and transformation. Collaborate with data modelers, scientists, and business partners to drive impactful projects centered around our data. Elevate your career by mastering cutting-edge tools and technologies in a dynamic, innovative environment.

• Provide technical recommendations and evaluate project feasibility and workloads.
• Design and implement efficient pipeline architectures for data ingestion, transformation, and storage.
• Develop modular, efficient code for data transformation and integration, ensuring adherence to modern development practices.
• Perform data ingestion from source systems, including ETL processes, when tables are not available on the data platform. *Conduct regular pipeline maintenance and upgrades, troubleshooting and resolving issues to ensure optimal performance.
• Implement data quality testing and validation to maintain high standards of data integrity and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with other data engineers, data modelers, data stewards, BI developers, data scientists, and subject matter experts to ensure seamless data integration, knowledge sharing, and delivery of impactful solutions.

Location: Barcelona, Spain

• Unique career paths across health, nutrition and beauty, explore what drives you and get the support to make it happen.
• A chance to impact millions of consumers every day, sustainability embedded in all we do.
• A science led company, cutting edge research and creativity everywhere, from biotech breakthroughs to sustainability game-changers, you'll work on what's next.
• Growth that keeps up with you, you join an industry leader that will develop your expertise and leadership.
• A culture that lifts you up. with collaborative teams, shared wins, and people who cheer each other on.
• A community where your voice matters. it is essential to serve our customers well.

• Expert knowledge in dbt, SQL, Python, Spark, Cypher, Git, and Databricks.
• Expertise in cloud engineering (e.g. AWS, Azure), infra-as-code, and deploying CICD pipelines is a plus.
• Experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j), integrating with both commercial and custom-built scientific software applications is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• 3+ years experience in creating and maintaining data pipelines within the science, innovation, and labs domain for health, nutrition and beauty.
• Experience with handling scientific datasets for cheminformatics or bioinformatics (e.g. microbiome) is a plus.
• Experience with FAIR data principles, data governance and data standards used in the scientific domain.
• Ability to closely collaborate with data experts and subject matter experts to ensure seamless data integration and transformation.
• You consistently use best practices in coding, testing, and documentation to deliver scalable data solutions, ensuring accuracy and reliability through automated quality checks and monitoring tools.
• Curiosity and an open mind: You relentlessly ask "Is there a better way?" to leverage data for smarter decision-making.

We're managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you're applying as an individual, we'd love to hear from you. We're not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.