Senior Data Engineer

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About the client

Our client is a fast-growing life sciences and biotechnology company operating at the intersection of computational research, data platform engineering, and advanced analytics. They develop production-grade data systems designed to support complex scientific research, clinical trial analytics, and machine learning workloads. We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join their engineering team and take technical ownership of their data platform architecture.

Role overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will own the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of scalable data platforms and processing pipelines. You will work directly with scientists, researchers, and machine learning engineers to translate complex domain requirements into technical solutions that power downstream analytics and production ML systems.

We are looking for a senior technical owner who can operate autonomously, drive best practices across distributed processing and data modeling, and collaborate effectively with international stakeholders in an English-speaking environment.

Selection process

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