Data Engineer, Clinical Operations
Bristol Myers SquibbBase Salary
$66k - $79k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with BI&T partners, data engineers, analysts, clinical operations specialists, specimen management professionals, study teams, and other domain experts to drive adoption of the data platform.
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable production-grade data pipelines and platform components for cross-study operations and specimen management.
- Develop ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, semantic models, and interoperability capabilities for large cross-study and specimen datasets.
- Improve platform performance, scalability, availability, interoperability, and cost-effectiveness using parallel processing, caching, and partitioning.
- Deliver data product capabilities including standardization, testing, lineage, latency management, access governance, documentation, and self-service data discovery.
- Use Databricks Unity Catalog to manage metadata, enforce governance, and provide end-to-end data lineage.
- Build and deploy GenAI- and NLP-powered applications for data discovery, specimen traceability, cross-study insights, risk mitigation, and compliance automation.
- Develop and operationalize cloud-based LLM applications using RAG, fine-tuning, vector embeddings, Databricks Mosaic AI, and MLflow.
- Stay current with GenAI, semantic search, Databricks, cloud orchestration, and containerization practices.
- Serve as a technical expert and mentor junior analysts, interns, and vendor resources on Databricks, engineering practices, and business alignment.
Requirements
- 0–2 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI/ML, including implementing and operating cloud-based data capabilities.
- Hands-on expertise with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, Mosaic AI, and MLflow.
- Experience with cloud-native data platforms, ETL/ELT pipeline design, data modeling, semantic analytics, and hands-on DevOps.
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, PySpark on Databricks, and Generative AI frameworks.
- Experience with LLM architectures, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic frameworks, fine-tuning, vectorization, and Chain-of-Thought approaches.
- Experience creating data pipeline architectures and semantic models for large, complex datasets; life sciences, clinical trials, specimen management, or biobanking experience is preferred.
- Experience delivering production-grade GenAI applications, predictive models, and self-service analytics tools for critical clinical or research functions.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Commitment to engineering excellence, documentation, and process improvement; functional knowledge of Life Sciences R&D and clinical trial operations is highly preferred.
- Databricks certification, such as Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional, is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits may include wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, plus 11 paid company holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive paid vacation, paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days, summer-hours flexibility, and various leaves of absence.
- Eligible employees may participate in an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
- The role is based in Princeton, New Jersey, and its work model is assigned among site-essential, site-by-design, field-based, or remote-by-design models according to core responsibilities.
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About Bristol Myers Squibb
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome. Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients. Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do. Review our Social Media Community Guidelines at: https://www.bms.com/social-media-community-guidelines.html