
Senior Data Engineer
GSK
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Cambridge • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $136,950 - $228,250 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Designs, builds, and operates data tools, services, workflows, etc that deliver high value through the solution to key business problems by leveraging modern data engineering tools (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Storm, …) and orchestration tools (e.g. Google Workflow, AirFlow Composer)
- Confidently optimizes design and execution of complex solutions in data ingestion and data transformation
- Enables data products optimized for AI/ML and GenAI workloads—high throughput, observable, feature-ready and governed
- Produces well-engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy
- Implements modular, reusable components and microservices that accelerate development and reduce operational overhead
- Provides input into the roadmaps of upstream teams (e.g. Data Platforms, DataOps, DevOps) to help improve the overall program of work
- Ensure consistent application of platform abstractions to ensure quality and consistency with respect to logging and lineage
- Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working, and participates in code reviews and partnering to improve the team’s standards
- Adhere to QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and helps to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working
- Provides technical leadership, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship to junior engineers and serves as an escalation point for complex operational issues across pipeline and data services.
Requirements
- PhD + 2 years, Masters + 4 years or a Bachelors degree with 6+ years of Data engineering experience in industry
- Software engineering experience
- Experience overcoming high volume, high compute challenges
- Familiarity with orchestrating tooling
- Cloud experience
- Experience in automated testing and design
- Experience with DevOps-forward ways of working
Benefits
- health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits
- paid holidays
- vacation
- paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata ingestiondata transformationautomated testingmicroservicescoding best practicesCI/CDorchestrationAI/MLGenAI
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunication
Certifications
PhDMastersBachelors