Data Platform Engineer @ IMU Biosciences
The immune system is essential for maintaining each individual's health and wellbeing. Recent knowledge gains in the area has led to groundbreaking development of therapies currently revolutionizing medicine. IMU Biosciences mission is to understand the immune system at an even higher level of detail and guided by these discoveries, improve human health through the advancement of precision medicine, the development of diagnostics that enable earlier detection of disease, and the identification of effective methods of targeting the immune system with tailored treatments.
We’re looking for team oriented and collaborative Data Platform Engineers to join our growing engineering department. As part of the team you will continuously unlock new complexity and implement qualitative and validated solutions. You’ll have a strong voice in the team and a strong influence on the direction of the analytics platform and play a crucial role in the evolution of our high-throughput immunophenotyping.
Periodically, you will embed in multidisciplinary teams, where you'll combine your expertise with those from other fields to tackle complex and multifaceted issues. Together, you'll address cross-functional challenges, leveraging each member's unique professional knowledge to devise comprehensive and effective problem solving.
Key responsibilities
As a Data Platform Engineer @ IMU Biosciences, you'll among other things work with:
- Design and implement bespoke distributed compute platforms on AWS, architecting high-performance pipelines for machine learning, data processing, and analytics while maintaining high data traceability and analytics reproducibility.
- Champion robust and scalable data workflows, leveraging your orchestration expertise to integrate diverse data sources, from lab equipment and scientific instruments to external feeds.
- Build and maintain a secure data warehouse in Snowflake, ensuring the integrity, provenance, and accessibility of sensitive research data.
- Collaborate with scientists, data engineers, and bioinformaticians, translating requirements into efficient, automated workflows that empower their research.
- Champion CI/CD practices, IAC and automation, continuously optimizing deployment processes and infrastructure as code for agility and scalability.
- Partake in the evolution of IMU's cloud technology stack, actively contributing to our evolving landscape of tools and services.
- Design and implement bespoke data ingestion pipelinesfrom lab equipment into our computation platform.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for people with strong documented experience of the following:
- Python Development
- AWS
- Test automation
- Team collaboration/knowledge sharing
- Agile mindset
IMU is all about the data and the analysis thereof, so we’ll be extra keen to hear from you who in combination with excellent Software Engineering skills have experience of working with related topics such as, but not limited to:
- Software development accreditation
- Bioinformatics
- Workflow Orchestration platforms (Such as dagster.io)
- Distributed/Parallel processing
- Data Engineering
- R
- Pandas
- Snowflake
- Data Dashboarding
- SQL
- AI/ML
We welcome all levels of expertise, from junior to experienced professionals, to be part of our engineering team so don’t hesitate to apply!
Location and Employment Requirements:
- Remote or hybridfrom our office @Canary Wharf, London
- Candidates must be based in and legally authorised to work in theUKorSweden. Please note that we are unable to support or sponsor visa applications at this time.
Join us in shaping the future of data-driven solutions in the future of precision medicine!
Best
Pelle Ullberg, CTO @ IMU Biosciences
Applications are continuously reviewed. Please apply by sending a personal email and CV toimu.platform.engineer.2024q4[__AT__]imubiosciences.com. Please describe why you’re interested in becoming part of IMU Biosciences and how your documented experience would make a good addition.
Also note, that as part of the hiring process, there’ll be a mandatory live coding session simulating a pair programming exercise where you’re the driver and we’ll ride shotgun. Please tell us in the letter how you feel about that.
Start the personal email by answering the following questions:
- Q1:How many years of professional experience do you have of Python programming?
- Q2:How many years of professional experience do you have of AWS
- Q3:What’s your proficiency in English as described by the Inter-agency Language Round-table (ILR) scale set by the U.S. Foreign Service Institute?
- Q4:Team or individual accountability?
- Q5:Where do you live?
- Q6:Are you permanently legally authorized to work in the UK or Sweden?
- Q7:Where would be your preferred place to work from?
- Q8:Why did the PHP programmer go to the optician?
Q&A:
Q:The instructions for the personal letter seem a bit weird?
A:We’re getting hit by a lot of applications that have no relevance to the job description. This is our way to try to filter some of that spam.
Q:I’m a recruiter. Can I send you my clients?
A:While we appreciate the vast network and expertise of recruiters, we are currently looking to fill this position through direct applications only. We kindly ask recruitment agencies and recruiters not to submit resumes for this role. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
