Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

As the Lead Cloud Platform Engineer for Data, Analytics & AI in the Life Science Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE), you will be responsible for delivering our best-in-class Data, Analytics and AI platform to all Life Science employees by leveraging the group-wide UPTIMIZE platform with the goal of accelerated use case development. As a lead expert, you will be a role model for all data scientists, engineers and analysts in ACE and the wider Life Science Sector. In your day-to-day work, you will closely align with your IT counterparts and other leaders in the organization.

Your role:

• Establishing connectivity blueprints and architectural guidance for bi-directional, secure and performant data flows between all relevant LS systems and UPTIMIZE Foundry.
• Advising and making direct strategic decisions about platform selection for larger sector-wide initiatives and use cases and executing the implementation of custom platform environments on UPTIMIZE.
• Providing a best-in-class developer experience and governance model for all data analysts, engineers and scientists within the sector, striving towards giving developers the tools and support they need to be productive and happy.
• Contribute to the federated ACE engineering practices and moderate the evolution of them. Provide upskilling content for the engineering team on new technologies or platform features.
• Building sector-specific, end-user facing platform tooling.
• Securing the day-to-day operation of all ingestions and use cases on the platform by being a full-stack technical expert and solving escalations by partnering closely with vendor product development organizations.
• Bringing in new innovations and technologies into the engineering teams.

This is an exciting role with the potential to leverage technology and creativity to accelerate the efficiency of data, analytics and AI delivery in Life Science, and will be highly visible at all levels of the organization.

Who you are:

• You have a higher-education degree (Master’s, PhD, MBA) in a technical field.
• At least 7 years of experience working in the cloud, data or AI platform area, especially working with AWS.
• You are an expert in software development, having been part of a software development organization in one of your previous career positions and therefore you understand and can guide the organization how to execute the fundamentals of modern software delivery: Version Control, CI, CD, Containerization, different compute types (Serverless, GPU, …), Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as Code especially on AWS.
• You are a connectivity and data lake expert. You master topics such as Rest APIs, Authentication with Oauth2/OIDC/SAML, Object Stores like S3, Open Storage standards such as Iceberg or Delta, query engines such as Spark, DuckDB or Polars.
• You have significant hands-on experience in delivering solutions in data & AI, either by working as a data engineer, scientist or machine learning engineer in previous roles.
• You have strong experience with AWS and can develop and guide teams to build complex solutions on top. Preferably, you have also experience operating an end-to-end data platform such as Palantir Foundry, Databricks or Snowflake.
• Preferably, you have experience in contributing to open-source projects related to data & AI.
• Experienced in working in a global matrix environment, lateral leadership and positively influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to motivate, inspire, and align cross-functional teams with professionalism and clarity, influencing without authority.
• Excellent team player who takes accountability and thinks cross-functional.

Location: This role can be based in either Darmstadt, Germany or Burlington, MA.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress! Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!

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