Senior Data Engineer
SOPHiA GENETICS (NASDAQ: SOPH) combines Data-Driven Medicine, Genomics and Radiomics, to ensure that the data used to help patients today will also benefit the patients of tomorrow. To help us achieve our ambitious mission, we are now searching for a Senior Data Engineer with Big Data experience to join our team in Rolle, Switzerland.
Why us:
We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our AI SaaS Platform enables that. Our platform is a one-of-a-kind globally distributed information system that brings together hospitals and labs to provide data ingestion and processing, analysis and modeling, reporting and intelligence, distribution and sharing of a multitude of complex sources of structured and unstructured data, including genomics, imaging, and clinical data, delivered as a multi-tenant SaaS platform on the cloud.
As our Senior Data Engineer over Multimodal Health Data, you will be part of a team of Engineers focused on developing and maintaining our internal data platform and their microservices powering a multi-modal digital healthcare platform.
Your mission:
Reporting directly to the Head of Data,the Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for the design of individual components of the services and will collaborate daily with senior technical staff in- and outside of the team. You will have the opportunity to recommend and drive new initiatives and support our fast-growing organization.
The value add:
- You will have a key role in prototyping and development of our next-gen multimodal data platform, aided by your manager and your team members. This will include design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, maintenance and support of the services and other projects owned by your team.
- You will be responsible for designing and building of individual components and services, as well as contributing to the overall platform architecture. You will collaborate daily with senior technical staff in- and outside of the team.
- You will actively participate in code and design reviews with other members of the team
- As needed for your projects, you will participate in estimations and risk assessments, and exchange with stakeholders in Product and Project Management and other departments.
- You will participate in the team’s processes and recurring activities while helping to organize them. You will share your knowledge of best practices in the team and mentor junior team members.
Requirements
You have demonstrated experience in developing reliable and performant data platforms and services while having a firm grasp on the underlying challenges of releasing a distributed data and software solution to production. You have a basic understanding of the domain of genomics and digital healthcare and care for the impact you can have in this field. You know modern data and software engineering processes, have good knowledge of tools, technologies, and best practices. You seek to exchange regularly and communicate effectively with other members of your team.
The experience you bring:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent professional experience,
- At least 4-6 years of experience working with distributed data, data lakes, microservice-oriented architectures, and APIs, ideally in the healthcare field.
- Expertise with Python ETLs in a data processing environment, ideally Databricks.
- Expertise with distributed big data architectures (schemas, transfers, storage, partitioning, performance monitoring and optimization).
- Solid knowledge of modern scalable database and data lake technologies, especially Spark & SQL.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, as well as basic DevOps processes and tooling.
- Experience with software engineering best-practices, Agile, CI/CD, Unit & integration testing.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills with a growth mindset.
- Tooling: Azure data services ecosystem, Databricks, Terraform, Gitlab.
- Experience with multimodal data spanning of digital healthcare, clinical, radiomics and genomics (is a plus)
- Excellent level of English, French is a plus.
Benefits
You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose.
- Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans with 90% employer contributions!
- Career opportunities in a fast-growing company with a worldwide reputation
- International and multicultural environment
- Flexible hours, HYBRID work schedules available
- Work with a dynamic and collaborative Global team
- Exchanges and collaborations with experts within the company (AI, genomics, medicine, etc.)
- Passionate colleagues working to make a real different in patient care. Help us change the world!
- An exciting company mission that brings together science and technology to directly impact the lives of patients with life threatening illness
- A fast-growing company with plenty of opportunity for personal growth and development
- A hard technical challenge to solve with exciting modern technology - cloud computing, Big Data, DevOps, machine learning
The Process:
Apply now with your English resume and any supporting information. For further information, contact our Talent Acquisition Team.
Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader, alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business.
Location: Rolle, Switzerland (Hybrid, 2-3 days in office)
Contract type: Permanent, Full Time
Start Date: ASAP
