R&D Data Engineer

The Regeneron Genetics Center’s Genome Informatics & Data Engineering R&D team is looking for a Data Engineer to support the design, development, and maintenance of our genetic data lake/lakehouse, as well as the adjacent database systems, ETL pipelines, analytical tools, and APIs. You will work heavily within our Databricks/Apache Spark ecosystem on AWS and help to expand and improve our technology stack and data pipelines that support one of the largest genomic data lakes in the world. As part of the R&D team, you will be responsible for supporting core data infrastructure but will also have the ability to contribute to innovative systems & methods development efforts.

In this role, a typical day might include the following:

• Engineer & maintain production data pipelines to support our data lake within a lakehouse paradigm, including custom ETL/ELTs, pipeline CI/CD, and table optimization processes.
• Design software and infrastructure for data consumers, including performant APIs for application backends, library APIs for analytic pipelines and data scientists, and interfaces with low-latency operational databases.
• Contribute to pipeline development, orchestration, and productionalization for high-performance informatics & analytics tools.
• Interact and collaborate with other scientific and technical teams to identify & unify new data assets, ensure efficient and interoperable systems, and identify new technologies and services to address bottlenecks.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of a relational database/common data model for integrating core data assets across teams.
• Support application development team with robust, performant backend systems
• Contribute to bioinformatic & data analytics software development projects as needed, working with domain professionals in genome informatics, high-performance data analytics, genetics, and clinical informatics. Opportunities to contribute to open-source projects, such as Project Glow, are available.
• Provide technical expertise and architectural leadership to improve the value, usability, and interoperability of core RGC data assets
• Keep abreast of state-of-the-art technologies, promoting innovative solutions and ensuring the RGC has the technical resources to stay at the forefront of the industry.

• You have an interest in the health & life-sciences data domain.
• You have a willingness to support and contribute to R&D efforts developing new methods & systems improving data value & time-to-discovery.
• With your sleeves rolled up, you work on current problems while thinking of future solutions.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with expertise in documentation and visual presentations.

To be considered for this role you must have B.S. with 3+ years of relevant experience or M.S./Ph.D in computer science, data/software engineering, or a related field. Experience in engineering high-performance big data systems, with robust ETL pipelines and supporting broad consumer use-cases. Knowledge of cloud-based data technologies such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, Relational databases/SQL/NoSQL, Databricks Delta, and AWS services including Athena, Glue, RDS, Redshift, Kinesis. Deep technical foundation in data engineering, software engineering, backend/database design & management, machine learning operations and distributed systems. Domain knowledge in genomics, bioinformatics, or statistical genetics is a plus Experience in/willingness to work in Databricks Apache Spark, Python, SQL, Scala, Unix, AWS Cloud, Serverless/microservices

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