Senior Cloud Data Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life.

Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines.

Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Our location in Santa Clara, CA, currently has an opportunity for a savvy Data Engineer responsible for expanding and optimizing our data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.

WHAT YOU’LL DO The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up in AWS and Azure cloud.

The Data Engineer will support the software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture through the ongoing projects.

They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products.

The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing and redesigning our data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

Job Responsibilities Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture in Azure and AWS.

Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.

Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using compute technologies in the public clouds such as AWS and Azure.

Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.

Work with stakeholders including the Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

Keep data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple geographical regions.

Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING Required Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.

Working knowledge and experience with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases 5 years of experience in a data engineering role using big data technologies in AWS or Azure Experience using the following software/tools: Big data tools: Spark, Synapse, Kafka Data pipeline and workflow management tools Serverless: Lambda or Azure Functions, Cosmos DB or Dynamo DB, EMR Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming Programming languages: Python, .NET Core, Java Preferred Experience working in the healthcare industry Working knowledge and experience with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.

Experience building and optimizing big data pipelines, architectures and data sets in Azure and AWS.

Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.

Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.

Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and scalable big data stores.

Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.

7 years of experience in the healthcare/software industry WHAT WE OFFER At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career.

We offer: Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs Paid time off 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: www.abbottbenefits.com Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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