Senior Data Engineer (remote)

Founded in 2019 Qualifyze is a leading company in supply chain compliance management in the Life Sciences industry trusted by over 1500 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies globally. Our digital suite of solutions connects manufacturers suppliers and a global network of more than 250 auditors and quality experts.

With a track record of over 4500 audits across 85 countries and the largest and most accurate supplier network and data analytics tools Qualifyze stands as the all-in-one partner for quality compliance and supply chain risk mitigation in the Life Sciences sector.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Product & Tech team. In this role you will help build and evolve our data platform owning key pipelines and data products from end to end and contributing to the engineering decisions that shape them.

Your main goal will be to design build and maintain reliable data pipelines across our operational databases and analytical platform applying quality software engineering practices to everything you ship.

You will collaborate closely with the product team and backend engineers and work directly with business stakeholders who depend on accurate timely data to drive product decisions.

This role is well suited for someone with strong skills in Python and SQL solid software engineering fundamentals hands-on experience building production data pipelines in a product or platform team and a passion for managing work across the full data cycle from operational to analytical systems.

• Design build and maintain scalable reliable and well-tested data pipelines and data products.

• Manage features and pipelines end-to-end: from schema design in operational databases through ingestion transformation and delivery of analytical datasets.

• Contribute to the architecture of our data platform and help evaluate technical trade-offs with the team.

• Apply and help improve standards for data modeling data quality testing and code review.

• Work with Product Engineering and business stakeholders to turn requirements into well-scoped data solutions.

• Monitor troubleshoot and resolve pipeline incidents and improve observability and reliability over time.

• Share knowledge with the team and mentor fellow engineers through pairing and code reviews.

• Proficiency in Python for data engineering: building robust ETL/ELT pipelines and reusable modules with strong testing (e.g. pytest) and good observability.

• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL: complex query design performance tuning indexing and reading execution plans for both OLTP and OLAP workloads.

• Hands-on experience with dbt: building testing and documenting models ideally in a layered (e.g. medallion) project structure.

• Experience with Dagster (or similar orchestrators such as Airflow): building assets/jobs scheduling monitoring and handling failures in production workflows.

• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes: packaging and running data services and batch jobs in production.

• Solid grasp of data modeling: dimensional modeling and an understanding of the trade-offs between operational and analytical schemas.

  Nice to have:

  • Experience with AWS (S3 EKS Secrets Manager).

  • Experience with database schema migration tools (such as Liquibase) or data contracts.

Salary

At Qualifyze our salary ranges are transparent internally and we aim to follow a similar approach externally. For this role were happy to share a reference point within the band: the expected salary range is around 60.000 70.000 centered around the median.

Final compensation will depend on experience and performance during the process with some flexibility within the range.

• Competitive annually reviewed compensation package

• Country vacation package that increases with your tenure

• Country specific benefits offering incl. private health care fitness and meal allowances

• Annual personal development budget to increase your impact

• Hybrid working mode plus up to 3 months of the year work from anywhere.

• All the best kit and tools to work effectively

• Annual in person all company event and celebration in Europe

• Working with an exceptional team doing some of the best work of your career

We believe in a human-led hiring process. All applications are reviewed manually by our Talent Acquisition team and neither Talent Acquisition nor Hiring Managers use AI to screen filter rank assess or make decisions about candidates including during interviews and assessments. During interviews AI may be used only to support note-taking and transcription.

All hiring decisions are made by people!

At Qualifyze we actively support the power of diversity uniting complementary talents and perspectives to address new challenges. Our collective strengths help us to find innovative solutions and turn difficulties into will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work fostering an inclusive environment where everyone belongs and feels heard.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds regardless of race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation marital status religion disability or age. Our hiring practices are rooted in fairness and respect and we strive to create a culture where everyone feels valued and empowered.