Senior Data Engineer

Flatiron Health
London
2 months ago
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Senior Data Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer, around the world. Flatiron partners with cancer centers in the US, Europe and Asia to transform patients’ real-life experiences into real-world evidence and create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. Our multidisciplinary teams include oncologists, data scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, product experts and more. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.

What You'll Do

This role will design and develop technology in partnership with software engineering teams in the UK, Germany, and Japan. Additionally, this role will collaborate with other Flatiron employees in the US, and work day-to-day with oncologists, clinicians, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them.

  • Create new or enhance existing business critical, complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools and automation
  • Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges to help the team scale
  • Contribute to shaping the direction of team roadmaps and technology development
  • Help build our European engineering teams and company culture as we grow
  • Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure quality and security
  • Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in Germany, including data sources, security, privacy, information governance requirements, and emerging trends

Who You Are

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day. You seek and give candid feedback, and value the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.

  • You’re a data engineer with 4-8 years of relevant professional experience
  • You are excited to work in a startup environment, think creatively and be scrappy to get the job done
  • You are excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture
  • You have a nose for value and empathy for your customers
  • You have experience with agile development environments using object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, C#, SQL), but are also language agnostic and willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
  • You have experience working with cloud platforms like AWS and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake
  • You act as an expert in your domain area, and as a partner with product teams
  • You understand the purpose of “boring” technology (as described inthis blog post) and are willing to use the right tools to get the job done
  • You can collaborate and easily explain technical terms to a non-technical, highly sophisticated audience; you have superior communication skills
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn
  • You are fluent in English

Extra credit

  • You have experience working in healthcare in Germany or exposure to healthcare-related standards like HL7
  • You hold a Bachelors, Masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
  • You have experience in infrastructure, devops, or security engineering
  • You are conversational in German

Who We Are

Our people are at the center of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity.

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