Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abbott is a global healthcare leader developing technologies across diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and medicines. The Senior Scientific Data Engineer will lead the design and delivery of reusable data solutions for cancer research and diagnostic development, including data pipelines, APIs, workflows, and scientific data platforms. The role partners with scientists, data scientists, bioinformaticians, software engineers, and DevOps teams to establish scalable, reliable, and discoverable research-data capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of reusable tools and services for ingesting, validating, transforming, documenting, discovering, and sharing scientific data
- Own one or more platform capability areas end to end, including design, implementation, adoption, operational support, and long-term maintainability
- Develop maintainable solutions using Python and SQL, including software packages, data pipelines, APIs, notebooks, workflow utilities, and lightweight internal applications
- Create approachable, self-service workflows that allow researchers with varying levels of programming experience to prepare and share data consistently
- Partner directly with scientific teams to understand their studies, analytical workflows, data sources, and recurring technical challenges, and translate those needs into a prioritized technical roadmap
- Establish standards and reusable patterns for organizing and harmonizing data from disparate sources, including consistent structures, terminology, variable definitions, and mappings, and drive their adoption across teams
- Design automated data-quality and validation frameworks that identify missing, inconsistent, malformed, or unexpected data before it is used in downstream research
- Improve the documentation, traceability, and discoverability of scientific datasets, including clear descriptions of data content, origin, ownership, processing history, and intended use
- Evaluate AWS services and features for scientific data and analytical workflows. Translate research requirements into technical recommendations and partner with R&D DevOps teams on architecture, deployment patterns, and operational ownership
- Develop solutions that use AWS data and analytics capabilities, particularly Amazon S3 and related services such as Athena, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and SageMaker
- Prototype solutions for individual research programs and lead the work of generalizing successful approaches into reusable platform capabilities
- Provide technical leadership on designs that span multiple projects or teams: lead design reviews, document trade-offs and decisions, and align approaches with other engineers and technical leads
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, design feedback, and documentation, and raise the overall engineering standard of the team
- Support hands-on preparation and analysis of scientific data when needed to understand a problem, validate a solution, or accelerate a research effort
- Apply quantitative and scientific judgment when evaluating data, analytical requirements, and potential technical solutions
- Use Spark or PySpark when distributed processing is appropriate for large or computationally intensive datasets
- Apply and reinforce sound software-engineering practices, including version control, testing, code review, documentation, dependency management, continuous integration, and reproducible development
- Communicate technical concepts, design decisions, trade-offs, limitations, and project status clearly to technical, scientific, and leadership audiences
- Operate independently within an evolving environment: scope ambiguous problems, sequence the work, make defensible decisions when requirements are incomplete, and keep stakeholders informed
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, statistics, mathematics, bioinformatics, computational science, or another relevant quantitative discipline
- Five or more years of relevant professional or applied research experience, or three or more years with an advanced degree in a relevant field
- Advanced programming skills in Python
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with structured and semi-structured data
- Demonstrated track record of building reusable, maintainable software that others depend on, rather than one-time scripts or analyses
- Experience designing and delivering several of the following: data pipelines, Python packages, APIs, analytical workflows, notebooks, or internal software tools
- Substantial hands-on experience using AWS for data processing, analytics, scientific computing, or software development
- Sufficient depth in AWS services and architecture to evaluate technical options, justify design recommendations, and define infrastructure requirements with DevOps or cloud-engineering partners
- Experience conducting or supporting quantitative research, such as statistical analysis, machine learning, computational modeling, or another data-intensive research activity
- Experience cleaning, integrating, standardizing, or validating data from multiple sources at meaningful scale
- Fluency with software-development practices such as Git, automated testing, technical documentation, code review, and continuous integration
- Demonstrated ability to investigate ambiguous problems, define an approach, and deliver a working solution with little guidance
- Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers, scientists, or analysts
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when building alignment across scientific and technical disciplines
- Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
- Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
- Advanced degree in a quantitative, computational, or life-science discipline
- Experience working with biomedical, genomic, clinical, proteomic, imaging, laboratory, or other complex scientific data
- Experience supporting research in life sciences, healthcare, diagnostics, or a similarly data-intensive and regulated scientific environment
- Production experience with Spark or PySpark and distributed data processing
- Depth in AWS services such as Athena, Glue, EMR, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, Lake Formation, or related data and analytics technologies
- Experience developing REST APIs or lightweight web applications used by non-engineering audiences
- Experience designing automated validation frameworks, data contracts, reusable data-processing libraries, or researcher-facing workflow tools
- Experience with metadata-management, data-catalog, or data-discovery platforms, such as the AWS Glue Data Catalog, OpenMetadata, or Unity Catalog
- Experience with containerization, continuous integration and deployment, or infrastructure-as-code
- Experience supporting machine-learning workflows or preparing data for model development and evaluation
- Experience working with large files or multimodal datasets, such as sequencing outputs, digital pathology images, clinical records, or experimental measurements
- Familiarity with governance considerations for research data, including access control, de-identification, and the handling of sensitive clinical information
- Experience working within a data mesh, data product, or federated data-ownership model
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