Data Engineer R&D Dashboarding

Job Description

At our company we aspire to be the premier researchintensive biopharmaceutical organization. We are driven by leadingedge science and digital innovation to deliver breakthrough health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in animals.

Join our R&D IT Informatics team and play a key role in transforming complex research data into trusted intuitive dashboards that empower scientists and leaders to make better faster decisionsand ultimately improve lives around the world.

We have an exciting new job opportunity in our R&D IT department at our Global Technology Center in Prague focused on developing and applying advanced capabilities in information sciences data analytics and big data and are looking to hire a Data Engineer - R&D Dashboarding.

The purpose of this role is to translate complex scientific and business questions into intuitive data-driven solutions that accelerate decision-making across Animal Health R&D.

The role bridges data science domain understanding and user-centric design helping teams move faster from exploratory questions to actionable insights.

By combining advanced analytics close collaboration with scientists and rapid prototyping (e.g. Figma) this position enables the creation of scalable reusable analytics assets and visual concepts that inform discovery and development decisions while remaining adaptable to evolving research needs.

You will join a professional and dynamic team with the right this position the successful candidate will report to the R&D Informatics product-line lead by working with our Drug Discovery teams driving and implementing solutions to accelerate research and pharmaceutical development addition to working alongside a world-class team of scientists in driving R&D activities the Software Engineer will also collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the companys R&D functions throughout various phases of drug development. Responsible for cleaning analyzing and interpreting chemical and biological data analyzing and testing virtual screening data. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in implementing data analysis extraction in drug research including technical expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain dashboards visualizations and decision-support tools (e.g. Power BI Spotfire Pipeline Pilot Knime or similar platforms)

• Collaborate with Animal Health R&D scientists and business stakeholders to understand scientific questions workflows and decision points

• Design and develop data-driven analytics solutions from exploratory analysis to reusable pipelines

• Create conceptual UI / UX mock-ups and prototypes using Figma translating analytical ideas into user-friendly designs

• Support end-to-end data integration combining diverse data sources into coherent analytical views

• Actively participate in iterative solution design incorporating feedback from scientists and product owners

• Contribute to the evolution of generic scalable analytics pipelines that can be reused across R&D projects

• Communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

The primary activities include but are not limited to:

• Build maintain and optimize ETL/data pipelines to ingest transform and prepare R&D datasets from multiple sources

• Design and implement robust data models that support reporting and dashboarding use cases

• Develop deploy and maintain exploratory interactive dashboards and reports to communicate R&D metrics trends and insights to scientific and business stakeholders

• Collaborate with scientists statisticians data analysts and product owners to translate analytical needs into dashboard requirements metrics and visualizations

• Ensure data quality through cleansing validation and monitoring; implement checks and alerts for pipeline health and data integrity

• Work with cloud and infrastructure teams to deploy and scale dashboarding solutions on cloud platforms (AWS Azure or Google Cloud) as needed

• Support ad-hoc data requests and exploratory analyses to quickly surface insights for R&D teams

• Assist in prototyping new visualization approaches gather user feedback and iterate on designs to improve usability and clarity

• Contribute to team agile processes; participate in sprint planning stand-ups and retrospectives

• Includes specializations within domains such as Chemistry or Biology

Requirements

• Academic level e.g. graduated bachelors or masters degree in one of the STEM fields ideally applied on Biochemistry

• Solid programming skills and knowledge of databases SQL Informatica and statistical methods

• 25 years of experience in data engineering analytics engineering or a related role focused on reporting/dashboarding

• Strong SQL skills and experience designing data models and ETL processes

• Hands-on experience with at least one dashboarding/BI tool (e.g. Power BI Power Platform Pipeline Pilot Knime Looker or Spotfire)

• Familiarity with scripting for data tasks (e.g. Python)

• Experience working with cloud data platforms (AWS Azure or Google Cloud) or cloud-hosted analytics services

• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional R&D teams

Nice to Haves

• Experience with modern data platforms or frameworks (e.g. Databricks Spark dbt Airflow)

• Background in pharma biotech or scientific R&D environments

• Basic understanding of statistics or data science concepts to support R&D interpretation

• Strong interest in improving how scientists interact with data through design and tooling

What We Offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern

• Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport card Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone parking in the garage showers refreshments

• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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