Senior Preclinical Data Engineer

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the on-site point of contact for preclinical data management activities while operating under the direction of a remote platform team.
• Collect map and transform heterogeneous preclinical data including in vitro and in vivo bench/lab-generated data from multiple internal systems into standardized and usable formats.
• Support the development and implementation of data standards and taxonomies where no existing standards currently exist.
• Perform data quality reviews data cleaning validation and accuracy checks using SQL and Python.
• Contribute to the loading of validated and standardized data into a central data lake.
• Provide functional ticket-based user support for scientists using internal preclinical research tools.
• Troubleshoot data-loading and data-handling issues across multiple preclinical systems.
• Support functional administration activities including:
• Access rights management
• List-of-values (LOV) management
• Functional documentation such as methods of procedure (MOPs)
• Business needs refinement
• Support application testing and validation activities including:
• Test case development
• Test execution
• Validation documentation
• Set up or support business intelligence (BI) extracts dashboards and reports.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 to 6 years of experience working directly with preclinical or bench/lab-generated research data.
• Ability to work a minimum of 3 days on-site in Boston MA.
• Strong understanding of bench science and how scientific experiments generate data including familiarity with outputs from techniques such as chromatography and Western blotting.
• Demonstrated experience working with data that lacks established standards or formats with the ability to create structure and standards from the ground up.
• Working proficiency in SQL and basic Python for data querying cleaning validation and quality review.
• Experience providing end-user support and troubleshooting for scientific software applications or data systems.
• Ability to work independently with remote management and limited local technical support.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to preclinical research domains such as pharmacology toxicology DMPK or omics.
• Familiarity with LIMS ELN or SDMS platforms.
• Knowledge of data governance concepts including Master Data Management (MDM) FAIR principles and ALCOA data integrity practices.
• Experience working as an embedded consultant or vendor within a client team.

Salary Range: $90000 - $140000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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