Senior Data Platform Engineer (m/f/x)

Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.

With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world.

In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer.

Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.

For our headquarter in Munich we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position of

Senior Data Platform Engineer (m/f/x)

The position:

The job holder will be responsible for designing technical data pipelines and flows and further implementation on the data analytics platform. You should enjoy developing projects and being part of challenging digitization projects. If you are strategic, pro-active and results-driven thinker and excellent communicator and cooperator with a clear vision for data practices and engineering, maybe this position is right for you. 

Roles and responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and improve data pipelines (batch/real-time) for our data analytics platform
• Migrate/refactor existing analytical solutions to the modern data stack (dbt, airflow, snowflake)
• Design, implement, and improve libraries, software components, and ETL/ELT frameworks, required to integrate our data analytics platform with other company/external services
• Integrate our tools into seamless and efficient processes, specifically customize and improve ci/cd pipelines, IaC scripts, and other platform process automation tools
• Implement complex analytical projects, across different departments and corporate systems with a focus on collecting, transforming, and delivering data
• Develop standards, guidelines, and other necessary documentation for data analytics platform
• Be in constant communication with team members and other relevant parties and convey results efficiently and clearly

Professional experience and education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Data Science, or related field
• A minimum of 5-7 years in IT, with at least 3 years in the data engineering team
• Expert in SQL and one of the analytical RDBMS (architecture, performance tuning)
• Authoritative in designing, coding, and tuning batch and stream data pipelines
• Must have an excellent understanding of data warehouse methods and procedures and data architectures and technologies
• Experience in Python development and related tools (pip, venv, debugger, unittest/pytest, etc.)
• Experience in docker and Linux terminal
• Cloud experience with Microsoft Azure
• Experience in using Git (branching, merge conflicts resolution, rebasing etc.)
• Experience in using and implementing engineering practices: CI/CD, IaC, auto-testing, etc.
• Have a track record of remaining unbiased toward specific technologies or vendors
• Ideally experience in performance tuning and cost optimization of cloud-based database solutions (Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Databricks, Google BigQuery)
• Experience with Apache airflow, Azure Data Factory and dbt is a plus
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Terraform will be helpful

Why work with us?

Working at Daiichi Sankyo is more than just a job – it is your chance to make a difference and change patients’ lives for the better. We can only achieve this ambitious goal together. That is why we foster a culture of mutual respect and continuous learning, with a strong commitment to inclusion and diversity. Here, you will have the opportunity to grow, think boldly, and contribute your ideas. If you have a proactive mindset and passion for addressing the needs of patients, we eagerly await your application.

For more information: www.daiichi-sankyo.eu