Associate Specialist , Data Engineering

Job Description Associate Specialist: Data Engineering The Opportunity: Join a global biopharma company with a 130-year legacy and mission to achieve new milestones in healthcare. Be part of a technology-driven, data-led organization supporting a diversified portfolio of medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Work alongside passionate teams that use data, analytics, and insights to drive decisions and tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers are globally distributed hubs that enable our digital transformation and business outcomes across IT. They bring together diverse teams to collaborate, share best practices, and deliver solutions that save and improve lives. This role is based at our Hyderabad Tech Center and follows a hybrid working model (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). Candidates are expected to reside within commuting distance of the Hyderabad office.

Role Overview   We are looking for a Data Engineer with 2–4 years of hands-on experience in building and supporting data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and analytics-ready datasets. The ideal candidate should have strong fundamentals in Python , PySpark , SQL , AWS , and Databricks , with practical exposure to data lakes, lakehouse patterns, data warehousing, data quality, and production support. This role is best suited for a hands-on engineer who can work from defined requirements, contribute to reliable data solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and grow into larger ownership over time.

What will you do in this role   Build, enhance, and support batch and streaming data pipelines using defined technical designs and backlog requirements. Develop and maintain ETL/ELT transformations using Python , PySpark , and SQL across data lake, lakehouse, and warehouse environments. Work closely with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, senior engineers, tech leads, and product managers to understand requirements and deliver curated, analytics-ready datasets .

Implement data quality checks , validations, reconciliations, and basic anomaly checks to improve trust and usability of data outputs. Run, monitor, and troubleshoot pipelines using orchestration and observability tools such as Databricks Workflows , AWS Step Functions , scheduling, logging, monitoring, and alerting. Follow engineering practices including unit testing , integration testing , automated data tests , code reviews, and quality gates within CI/CD .

Support BI and analytics use cases by applying dimensional modeling concepts such as facts, dimensions, star/snowflake schemas, and slowly changing dimensions (SCD) . Write and tune SQL queries for data profiling, transformations, validations, debugging, and performance improvements. Use AWS services such as S3 , Glue , Lambda , Step Functions , EMR , and CloudWatch to support data engineering workloads while following security practices such as IAM, encryption, and least privilege.

Contribute to cloud resource provisioning and environment configuration using Terraform , with guidance from senior engineers. Package, deploy, and support workloads using Docker and related runtime configurations, including ECS/Fargate where applicable. Use GitHub for version control, branching, pull requests, code reviews, and contribution to CI/CD pipelines. Develop scalable data processing logic on Databricks / Apache Spark using PySpark and lakehouse concepts such as Delta Lake , ACID transactions, and schema evolution.

Use Jupyter/Databricks notebooks for exploration, debugging, and PoCs; convert validated logic into reusable modules, tests, and deployment-ready pipelines. Participate in Agile delivery ceremonies, provide task-level estimates, share progress updates, and raise risks or dependencies early. Create and maintain technical documentation such as pipeline specifications, data contracts, runbooks, and support notes.

What Should you have: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent prac