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Senior Data Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-20 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure on AWS to support analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI initiatives for commercial pharmaceutical clients.

Role type

Senior Data Engineer (Pharma/Healthcare Domain)

Builds

End-to-end data pipelines, data processing workflows, and AI/ML data preparation layers on AWS cloud and lakehouse architectures.

Domain

Commercial pharmaceutical data analytics and AI/ML infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift), Databricks, Apache Spark, SQL, Apache Airflow, data modeling, data lake/lakehouse architecture, commercial pharmaceutical data sources (Xponent, Veeva, MMIT, Plantrak), pharmaceutical commercial data processes (Alignment, Allocation, Split credits, Market basket, Customer universe), pharma KPIs and metrics

Preferred skills

Experience supporting commercial pharmaceutical/healthcare data environments, LLM-based application support, vector embeddings, knowledge retrieval/RAG solutions, legacy system migration

Technologies

Amazon S3, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Xponent, Veeva, MMIT, Plantrak

Responsibilities

Design and deploy end-to-end data pipelines on AWS; Build and optimize data pipelines for pharma KPIs and reporting; Develop Airflow workflows for orchestration and automation; Integrate and process commercial pharmaceutical data sources; Enable data pipelines for AI/ML and Generative AI workloads; Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline performance and reliability; Support migration to modern cloud and lakehouse architectures

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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