IT Data Engineer

Creve Coeur, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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: Creve Coeur MO 63141

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

We approach agriculture holistically looking across a broad range of solutions from using biotechnology and plant breeding to produce the best possible seeds to advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics designed to select the best possible crop system for every acre.
To make this possible client collects terabytes of data across all aspects of its operations from genome sequencing crop field trials manufacturing supply chain financial transactions and everything in between.
There is an enormous need and potential here to do something that has never been done before.
We need great people to help transform these complex scientific datasets into innovative software that is deployed across the pipeline accelerating the pace and quality of all crop system development decisions to unbelievable levels.

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.

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 th...