Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world headquartered in Leverkusen and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products agricultural chemicals seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: IT Data Engineer
Location: St Louis MO 63146
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
What you will do is why you should join us:
- Be a critical senior member of a data engineering team focused on creating distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets
- Take pride in software craftsmanship apply a deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve and innovate
- Work with other top-level talent solving a wide range of complex and unique challenges that have real world impact
- Explore relevant technology stacks to find the best fit for each dataset
- Pursue opportunities to present our work at relevant technical conferences
- Project your talent into relevant projects. Strength of ideas trumps position on an org chart
If you share our values you should have:
- At least 7 years experience in software engineering
- At least 2 years experience with Go
- Proven experience (2 years) building and maintaining data-intensive APIs using a RESTful approach
- Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafka
- A level of comfort with Unit Testing and Test Driven Development methodologies
- Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker
- A proven ability to build and maintain cloud based infrastructure on a major cloud provider like AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience data modeling for large scale databases either relational or NoSQL
Bonus points for:
- Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC
- Experience with: Google Cloud Platform Apache Beam and or Google Cloud Dataflow Google Kubernetes Engine or Kubernetes
- Experience working with scientific datasets or a background in the application of quantitative science to business problems
- Bioinformatics experience especially large scale storage and data mining of variant data variant annotation and genotype to phenotype correlation
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.