Senior Clinical Data Engineer
Zifo RnD Solutions1 month ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage scalable data pipelines supporting clinical trials.
- Own the ingestion, integration, transformation, and delivery of clinical data into data lakes and cloud data warehouses.
- Develop and deploy production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines in cloud environments.
- Use distributed data-processing technologies and workflow orchestration to support reliable clinical data delivery.
- Integrate data from clinical trial source systems, including EDC/eCRF and CTMS.
- Translate study-level data requirements into scalable technical solutions and support study-level data transfer and integration specifications.
- Ensure data quality, traceability, validation, reliability, scalability, and automation.
- Collaborate with clinical data teams, analytics teams, technical stakeholders, and downstream consumers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technology role.
- Strong hands-on programming experience with Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Apache Spark, and Apache Airflow.
- Experience designing and deploying production-grade ETL/ELT data pipelines in cloud environments.
- Experience with data lakes or cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or Amazon Redshift.
- Strong understanding of database concepts, data modeling, data integration, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience handling JSON and XML data and building or consuming REST/API-based integrations.
- Familiarity with GitLab or GitHub and CI/CD tools.
- Experience with clinical trial data and clinical data workflows is required; familiarity with EDC/eCRF, CTMS, and other clinical source systems is expected.
- Experience supporting study-level data transfer and integration specifications is preferred.
- Understanding of clinical data quality, traceability, validation, and regulatory expectations is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- The role is onsite in Chennai, India.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Zifo RnD Solutions
Zifo RnD Solutions provides scientific informatics and data services to pharma, biotech, medical devices, and other R&D-driven organizations. It implements and supports ELN/LIMS/EDC and clinical data management, builds custom integrations and analytics, and offers validation, managed services, and cloud/HPC support. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, it is privately held and backed by TA Associates, and serves global biopharma companies, including several top-10 firms.