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At Takeda, we are guided by our purpose of creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. Every corporate function plays a role in making sure we — as a Takeda team — can discover and deliver life-transforming treatments, guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet

Describe at the highest level the team where this job sits and how this role will contribute to the team’s delivery of critical function. The Data Engineer will be a crucial member of the Data Science Institute, contributing to the development and optimization of data pipelines and architectures that support advanced data science initiatives. This role will enhance data accessibility, reliability, and efficiency across the organization

Accountabilities

• Assist in end-to-end data flow engineering and software development strategies
• Develop and manage data pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data from various sources into data warehouses or data lakes
• Monitor the performance of data pipelines and infrastructure, identify bottlenecks, and optimize processes to improve efficiency and reliability
• Implement data observability practices to ensure data quality and publish relevant metrics to a catalog or repository
• Seek out new perspectives and opportunities to learn and apply skills to develop new talents
• Stay alert to industry trends, designs, and alternate views and approaches across technology, science, and operations
• Engage in software development, development tools, algorithms, and technologies related to data architectures, data engineering, and data science
• Utilize experience with complex analytic areas with diverse data and high dimensionality in life sciences or similarly complex areas
• Preferred experience with programming languages like Scala, Java, or Python and tools like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, or Apache Airflow for building scalable and efficient pipelines
• Education & Competencies (Technical and Behavioral)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Foundational knowledge of computer science architecture, algorithms, and interface design
• Up-to-date specialized knowledge of data engineering, manipulation, and management technologies to affect change across business units, including an understanding of advanced methodologies of data and software development (life sciences experience preferred)
• Ability to manipulate voluminous data with different degrees of structuring across disparate sources to build and communicate actionable insights for internal or external parties
• Software development skills and ability to contribute to the development of new data engineering and analytic services
• Knowledge in vibe coding is required to enhance data processing and pipeline efficiency
• Possess an attitude to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies, fostering continuous personal and professional growth
• for building scalable and efficient data pipelines
• Good knowledge of Apache Spark and Scala or Java is required