Senior Data Engineer

We are Intellectsoft - a digital transformation consultancy group and engineering company that delivers cutting-edge solutions for global organisations and technology startups. Since 2007, we have been helping companies and established brands reimagine their business through digitalization. We're looking for an exceptional Senior Data Engineer to join our team. Are you up for a challenge?

Project description:

A biotechnology research project that earned recognition as a trusted provider of clinical genetic testing and an ideal collaborator for developing precision medicine solutions. Patients are central to the project's mission, driving partnerships with numerous non-profit organizations to support patients and healthcare professionals in their quest for answers. The main focus - is Clinical Cancer Diagnostic; however, the project is designed to expand into additional areas such as Molecular Diagnostic Testing, Cardio Genetics, Neuro Genetics, etc

Responsibilities:

1. Develop connectors for Kafka to streamline the syncing of updates from source data repositories.
2. Establish partitioned Kafka topics to optimize the synchronization of updates to destination data marts.
3. Leverage Apache Flink for crafting intricate data analytics workloads to enable real-time monitoring and transformations.
4. Deploy dashboards using Datadog and Cloudwatch to uphold system health and fulfil user needs.
5. Institute schema registries to uphold data governance standards while catering to diverse data requirements.
6. Collaborate closely with a West Coast-based scrum team, contributing to daily pull request submissions, code reviews, documentation maintenance, backlog management, and build validation across environments within sprint cycles lasting 2-4 weeks.
7. Coordinate with other scrum teams to ensure coherence on data contracts, API specifications, and deployment timelines.
8. Architect database schemas with a focus on query access patterns.
9. Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code principles.
10. Transition on-premises ETL jobs from PHP to AWS Flink and Glue processes gradually.
11. Work alongside QA Engineers to develop automated test suites.
12. Engage with end-users to troubleshoot service interruptions and champion our data product offerings.
13. Maintain vigilant oversight of data quality, promptly addressing discrepancies, latency issues, and defects.

Requirements

Must have:

• Proficiency in Apache Kafka (preferably MSK flavour), Debezium, Python, Apache Flink or PySpark Streaming, MySQL (preferably RDS flavours), CDK or Terraform, Athena, Glue, Lambda, Appflow, HANA/4, PHP, Redis, Docker, and JavaScript.
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience collaborating within professional scrum teams or equivalent educational background.
• A minimum of 3 years of practical experience in designing and indexing relational databases.
• At least 2 years of practical experience in constructing and managing real-time data streams.
• Demonstrated proficiency with at least 1 year of experience in developing monitoring dashboards.

Nice to have:

• A Master’s degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, or life sciences.
• Demonstrate a foundational grasp of genomic concepts and terminology.
• Exhibit flexibility in availability.
• Demonstrate experience in constructing data APIs and providing Data as a Service.
• Showcase proficiency in integrating with SaaS platforms like SAP and Salesforce.
• Display familiarity with PHP MVC frameworks such as Symfony or express readiness to acquire such skills.
• Knowledge of Atlassian products, including Jira, Confluence, and Bamboo.
• Show proficiency in utilising system diagramming tools like Miro, LucidCharts, or Visio.

Benefits

• 36 paid absence days per year for the work-life balance of each specialist + 1 additional day for each following year of cooperation with the company

• Up to 10 unused absence days can be added to income after 12 months of cooperation
• Health insurance compensation
• Depreciation coverage for personal laptop usage for project needs
• Udemy courses of your choice
• Regular soft-skills training
• Excellence Сenters meetups