Senior Data Engineer - Pharma
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to act as the primary technical reference for building R&D; data products. The role sits at the intersection of scientific domain, data platform, and engineering delivery. You will guide technical design and implementation across data engineering, analytics, AI and application components within an R&D; data and AI ecosystem, while carrying accountability for engineering quality, mentoring and delivery outcomes. This is not a coordination role. You will write code, review code, and own challenging technical problems in diverse innovation ecosystems.
Role Responsibilities
Technical leadership & hands-on delivery
• Provide hands-on technical expertise across R&D; data, analytics, AI and application components, guiding design and implementation from prototype through to validated production.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges spanning data pipelines, analytics, AI services and full-stack applications.
• Own end-to-end technical design for data products: ingestion,
modelling, curation, serving, and the consuming application or API layer.
• Make and document architecture decisions, including technology evaluation and integration into an existing large-scale data ecosystem.
• Ensure delivery commitments are met without trading away reliability, security, maintainability or data integrity.
Collaboration
• Align with enterprise and software architects so that squad-level implementation stays homogenous with the wider ecosystem.
• Lead code reviews and set engineering standards (branching strategy, testing expectations, definition of done, observability baseline).
• Translate between scientific stakeholders and engineers.
Governance, security & compliance
• Ensure solutions meet data governance, security and compliance requirements relevant to regulated R&D; data.
• Embed governance-by-design: lineage, cataloguing, access control, data quality rules and au
📌 Senior Data Engineer (España)
🏢 Zifo
📍 España