Senior AWS Data Engineer (m/w/d)

Project / Role:
For our Pharma client in Basel we are looking for a highly motivated and qualified Senior AWS Data Engineer (m/w/d).

Background:
The role will be affiliated with the PD Quality ‚Sherlock‘ project, which will leverage the cloud based PD Advanced Analytics (PDAA) platform to generate actionable insights that will lead to a data-driven auditing process.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

– Ability to work within an Agile Scrum Team to perform specific development and configuration tasks according to Jira based User Stories / Functional Specifications
– Collaborate with the Tech Lead and Business Analyst to define Functional Specification and implement (code or configure) solution based on Functional Specifications
– Actively participate in all Agile Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Story Estimations, Retrospectives, Daily Scrums, etc.)
– Translate an architecture design into a functional solution
– Document Technical & Design Specifications

Must Haves:
– Min. 5 + years experience in Cloud (Platform) Data Engineering
– Certified and proficient in Agile ways of working with cross-functional teams
– AWS Developer Certification with extensive hands-on experience with core AWS services such as Glue/Glue Studio, S3, Lambda, SageMaker, DynamoDB, Athena, Redshift, RDS, Step Functions, CloudWatch, EC2, SNS, SQS, etc.
– Experience in building AWS based data ingestion, processing and analytics pipelines
– Substantial knowledge of ‚infrastructure as code‘ and in particular with Terraform and AWS CLI
– CI/CD systems (preferably GitLab and Jenkins) experience, including configuration management and automation tools (preferably Ansible and Puppet)
– Hands-on experience with Python coding and Bash shell scripting

Nice to Haves:
– Former Roche experience or in the life sciences/ pharma industry
– Knowledge of Service Orchestration using Kubernetes and/or EKS
– Knowledge of various databases, both SQL, and NoSQL
– AWS CloudFormation knowledge
– Experience with Snowflake
– Knowledge of more specialized languages such as ‚R‘
– Experience with troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, considering both Linux, as well as Cloud Native environments
– Knowledge of IP networking, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
– Experience collaborating on code base with Git & experience with the Git branching strategies
– Experience liaising with Data Scientist and DevOps team along the technological stacks typical for their domain
– Knowledge of Computer System Validation
– Familiar with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Spotfire

Reference No.: 920702SKN
Role: Senior AWS Data Engineer
Industry: Pharma
Location: Basel
Workload: 100%
Start: 01.11.2021
Duration: 4++, extension planned
Deadline: 30.09.2021

Should you find yourself suitable for this position then please send us your complete CV using the link in this advert. If the position is not a perfect match and you wish to receive other opportunities directly, you can send us your CV anyway via this advert or to jobs[at]itcag[dot]com.

Contact us for further information regarding our company, our positions or our attractive payroll-only-program: +41 41 760 77 01.

About us:

ITech Consult is a certified ISO 9001:2015 Swiss company with offices also located in Germany and Ireland. ITech Consult is specialised in delivering IT candidates for contract work. We were founded in 1997 by IT professionals; hence we well understand what it means to be professionally supported in your search for a new project and being employed.