Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer in the Veterinary Software organization, you will serve as a leader for data modeling and development supporting commercial data analytics. As a data subject matter expert, you will help deliver reporting data solutions, designing architectures to capture, integrate, organize, centralize, and maintain data.

This is a unique opportunity to help build the foundation for IDEXX’s reporting function—shaping how data is captured and leveraged across the organization. You’ll be part of a highly collaborative and dynamic team with direct impact on the company’s financial success. Our work helps clients—veterinary clinics and professionals—make smarter, data-driven decisions that improve care and drive growth.

IDEXX is innovating in the animal health sector, introducing products and data capabilities that are standard in other life sciences but new to this space. Many of our customers’ processes are dated, and this role offers the chance to modernize how they operate. The upside is significant: you’ll help bring transformative solutions to market and unlock new value for IDEXX and its partners.

In this Role:

• You will develop and maintain reporting platform technical architecture; focusing on the data foundation.

• You will develop knowledge of IDEXX data systems and processes, recommending and developing new data sets for analysis.

• You will collaborate with technology and management teams to define data standards, ensuring data is stored, consumed, integrated, and managed effectively across the organization.

• You will ensure data accuracy, accessibility, and system performance through continuous monitoring and refinement.

• You will ensure data interoperability across the reporting platform.

• You will promote the concept of data integrity and strategic value across the organization.

• You will collaborate across the engineering organization to develop strategies that align with VetSoft application development.

• You will work with data source systems and target systems to identify data issues and data gaps.

• You will work with IDEXX teams, contributing to the VetSoft metadata model, delivering standardization of data that has come from a range of different sources.

What do you need to succeed?

• Data Architecture Expertise: Strong knowledge of designing and implementing scalable data models, schemas, and data pipelines.

• Experience in quantitative analysis, problem solving, and data visualization.

• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, or similar frameworks.

• Proficiency in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Expertise in cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake)

• Expertise in relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.

• Familiarity with compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and best practices for data security and quality.

• Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies.

• Experience in SaaS environment.

• Systems and/or software design.

• Agile processes including Scrum, Kanban, and/or others.

• 5+ years of experience working with big data and analytics

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Why IDEXX?

We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from diseases. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery.   At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBT individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.