Senior Data Engineer

Description

About Norstella:

Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions provider dedicated to improving patient access to life-saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle — from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.

Norstella unites market-leading brands - Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta and The Dedham Group and delivers must-have answers and insights, leveraging AI, for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision-making. We help our clients:

• Accelerate the drug development cycle
• Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
• Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
• Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
• Identify and address barriers to therapies

Norstella serves most pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI-driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella’s investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.

Job Description:

• A Senior Data Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining data processing systems and infrastructure.
• Design and Build Data Pipelines: Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data from various sources.
• Data Management: Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Data Processing: Process incoming files by matching databases, creating resulting execution files, monitoring and reporting file contents, and posting files in required locations and alerting team members to facilitate campaign delivery. These file processing tasks are weekly or monthly. Weekly file processing tasks must be performed on Tuesday-Wednesday each week during strict time periods (between 6am-10am Eastern Standard Time) and require candidate to be online/available from 8am-12pm EST each Tues-Wed.
• Process Improvement: Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, such as automating manual processes and optimizing data delivery.
• Collaboration: Work with stakeholders, including data scientists, analysts, and executives, to support their data infrastructure needs and assist with data-related technical issues.
• Data Quality: Ensure data quality and reliability by developing and testing architectures that enable data extraction and transformation for predictive or prescriptive modeling.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Proficiency: Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools, such as Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, or similar.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in programming languages like SQL, Python, Java, or Scala.
• Database Management: Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Big Data Tools: Familiarity with big data tools like Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills with the ability to combine data from different sources and interpret trends and patterns.

Qualifications:

• Degree: A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field.
• Experience: Previous experience as a data engineer ideally in the digital advertising industry.
• This role is crucial for transforming raw data into client reporting and actionable insights.

Our Guiding Principles for success at Norstella

01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace
04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance
05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Provident Fund
• Reimbursement of Certification Expenses
• Gratuity
• 24x7 Health Desk

Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.

Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we’re just as excited about you.

All legitimate roles with Norstella will be posted on Norstella’s job board which is located at norstella.com/careers. If a role is not posted on this job board, a candidate should assume the role is not a legitimate role with Norstella. Norstella is not responsible for an application that may be submitted by or through a third-party and candidates should proceed with extreme caution if a third-party approaches them about an open role with Norstella. Norstella will never ask for anything of value or any type of payment during or as part of any recruitment, interview, or pre-hire onboarding process. If you are aware of or have reason to believe a job posting purportedly for a role with Norstella is fraudulent or otherwise not authorized by Norstella, please contact the Company using the following email address: ApplicationHelp@norstella.com.