Principal Data Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Brazil
Remote
Senior level
Pharmaceutical
The Role
The Principal Data Engineer will design, build, and support data pipelines using Microsoft Azure, DataBricks, and PowerBI. Responsibilities include collaborating with team leads, conducting tests, troubleshooting, and mentoring staff, all while ensuring performance and scalability in a medallion architecture setting.
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When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
 
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Using Microsoft Azure data PaaS services, design, build, modify, and support data pipelines leveraging DataBricks and PowerBI in a medallion architecture setting.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Using Microsoft Azure data PaaS services, design, build, modify, and support data pipelines leveraging DataBricks and PowerBI in a medallion architecture setting.
  • If necessary, create prototypes to validate proposed ideas and solicit input from stakeholders.
  • Excellent grasp of and expertise with test-driven development and continuous integration processes.
  • Analysis and Design – Converts high-level design to low-level design and implements it.
  • Collaborate with Team Leads to define/clarify business requirements, estimate development costs, and finalize work plans.
  • Run unit and integration tests on all created code – Create and run unit and integration tests throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Benchmark application code proactively to prevent performance and scalability concerns.
  • Collaborate with the Quality Assurance Team on issue reporting, resolution, and change management.
  • Support and Troubleshooting – Assist the Operations Team with any environmental issues that arise during application deployment in the Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments.
  • Assist other teams in resolving issues that may develop as a result of applications or the integration of multiple components.
  • Mentor technical staff and manage the technical delivery of significant part of the ecosystem.

Azure Developer Requirements & Skills:

  • Understanding of design concepts and architectural basics.
  • Knowledge of performance engineering.
  • Understanding of quality processes and estimate methods.
  • Fundamental grasp of the project domain.
  • The ability to transform functional and nonfunctional needs into system requirements.
  • The ability to develop and code complicated applications is required.
  • The ability to create test cases and scenarios based on specifications.
  • Solid knowledge of SDLC and agile techniques.
  • Knowledge of current technology and trends.
  • Logical thinking and problem-solving abilities, as well as the capacity to collaborate.
  • Primary skills: Cloud Platform->Azure Developer->Microsft Azure/PAAS.
  • Sought: SQL, Python, PowerBI.
  • General Knowledge: PowerApps, Java.
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
  • 11-20 years of experience in software development with minimum 5 years of cloud computing, and 1+ years in DataBricks, Synapse or Snowflake.

Top Skills

Python
SQL
The Company
HQ: Durham, North Carolina
20,524 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com.

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