Sr Data Engineer in Edmonton, Alberta

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – To enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. As part of our clinical research portfolio, our CorEvitas evidence-based solutions specialize in generating data intelligence and clinical insights needed to bring safe and effective treatments to market. Your objectivity and dedication to patient safety will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Location/Division Specific Information

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Discover Impactful Work:

Vestrum is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our talented database team in support of our development of real-world evidence used by medical professionals and the pharmaceutical industry.

This position is responsible for the availability, integrity, accessibility, and performance of all the Vestrum database systems by supporting, enhancing, administering, and maintaining our corporate databases. The position also requires the management of staff engaged in operational aspects of the data administration process.

A day in the Life:

Ensure weekly EHR data updates for existing Vestrum panel physicians are complete and appropriately loaded into databases and their associated applications

· Maintain current ETL processes to ensure data availability

· Must have Data architecture, scalable data processing framework development experience

· Experience with ETL migration from SQL Server to AWS using analytical services

· For new panel members and new applications, standardize free-text and other unstructured data fields including PDF files into structured data with associated updates to the data base

· Continue to develop automated quality assurance functions to validate incoming data and ensure the data are loaded into the warehouse appropriately

· Merge longitudinal patient level data from a variety of different sources and manage a tokenization project to link patient information from different sources

· Maintain various mapping tables for use by analysts (physicians, drugs, dosage forms and strengths, etc.)

· Familiar with linking and transforming patient activity data into standardized outputs.

· Implement requirements for backup and recovery and ensure successful nightly recoverable backups of all databases

· Maintain data base documentation describing data elements

· Manage database configuration on AWS

· Define new data architecture and process to improve performance using AWS analytical services

· Maintain database security

· Ensure HIPPA, GDPR compliance

· Perform database space management and monitoring

· Manage operations including distribution of weekly and monthly reports

· Communicate with and maintain strong relations with data suppliers

· Machine learning, NLP processing experience is a Plus

· Maintaining and developing the relationship with external hosting provider for existing server hardware

Keys to Success:

Education

Bachelor (BS) of computer science or equivalent is required.

Experience

Must have EMR or health care or pharmaceutical domain experience

Must have Python or Java experience

Relational, columnar, document oriented and cloud database experience is a plus

Experience in problem solving, troubleshooting and analyzing database issues and/or problems and to take appropriate corrective action

Experience with implementing data encryption

Experience in researching and/or applying current trends, methodologies, standards, practices and/or products in an IT environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Must be SQL Server database expert

Must know SSRS – SQL server reporting service

Must be a SQL expert

Must be able to guide and mentor the Junior developers

Must be able to lead the project

AWS analytical services experience – S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, Redshift services is required

Must know ETL data processing tools and services

AWS non-relational database service experience is a plus

Significant experience onboarding new EMR data sources and integrating these data into the existing database structure

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement – working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.