About The Role

Join our team as a Lead Data Engineer, where you will drive the technical direction of our data pipeline and data warehouse layers. You will lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform, standardize patterns, and improve maintainability and reliability. You will also mentor and coach data engineering colleagues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to innovation in the medical field.

Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform, primarily using Prefect, Python, and SQL.
Drive platform evolution by standardizing patterns, reducing operational overhead, and improving maintainability and reliability across the data landscape.
Lead the data engineering team, coaching engineers and owning work intake and prioritization.
Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
History of successfully developing data pipelines (e.g. Prefect, Airflow, Luigi, Dagster)
Extensive experience with Python in a testable and scalable fashion
Good interpersonal communication and presentation skills
Experience with DevOps workflows, especially CI/CD
You have worked as part of teams consisting of 4 or more developers and are used to having your ideas challenged and providing constructive criticism to others
Demonstrated use of automation and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering outcomes (quality, speed, test coverage, maintainability) in a controlled and secure way
You are able to clearly explain and translate conceptual ideas and technical rationale to technical and non-technical colleagues
You are based in Europe, ideally commutable to Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ability to autonomously make architecture and design decisions as lead
Hands on experience with RDBMS (Microsoft SQL or PostgreSQL preferred) and comfortable writing SQL, both DDL and DML
Experience as lead or managing developer, or substantial experience at senior level
Attention to detail
Exposure to healthcare / life sciences / clinical trials / pharmaceutical data
Knowledge of medical data standards such as FHIR based data exchange and/or OMOP
Master Data Management of ideally medical ontologies
Data lineage
Dutch language skills are a plus for local collaboration and accessing local data sources

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