Lead Data Engineer
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.2 months ago
Base Salary
$128k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead and subject matter expert for complex data engineering projects involving legacy systems and cloud-first platforms.
- Lead implementation of data infrastructure, platforms, tools, data products, and complex data integration pipelines.
- Optimize and improve the reliability, performance, resilience, capacity, and observability of data storage and platform systems.
- Build and operate pipelines supporting data lakes, marts, warehouses, structured data, and unstructured data.
- Establish engineering standards for testing, documentation, release management, monitoring, and reproducibility.
- Diagnose complex infrastructure and pipeline failures, lead incident reviews, and ensure corrective actions improve system reliability.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, lab IT, data science, bioinformatics, and scientific teams on architecture and system dependencies.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Use generative AI tools and frameworks to accelerate pipeline development, data transformation, and metadata enrichment.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of hands-on data engineering experience, preferably in life sciences, biotechnology, or healthcare.
- Expertise designing and operating cloud-native data architectures, particularly on AWS.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL for data manipulation, pipeline development, and automation.
- Extensive experience with Dagster, dbt, Spark, Iceberg, Lake Formation, Athena, and Glue or comparable modern data tools.
- Strong experience with Git, CI/CD, CDK, containerized workloads, Docker, and ECS.
- Experience supporting structured and unstructured formats including CSV, JSON, Parquet, and imaging data.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional projects with technical and scientific stakeholders.
- Practical experience using generative AI tools such as Claude Code and GPT-based tools.
- Ability to lead ambiguous technical initiatives, make explicit trade-offs, and remain accountable for reliable operational outcomes.
- Preferred experience with bioinformatics, cheminformatics, clinical data workflows, scientific software, and ELN systems.
- Familiarity with Benchling and CDD is preferred.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Data Analytics Specialty are preferred.
Benefits
- Salary range is $128,000–$176,000 annually.
- Healthcare coverage, an annual incentive program, retirement benefits, and a broad range of other benefits are offered.
- The role is a senior individual-contributor position within Flagship Pioneering's Scientific Cloud organization.
- The employer is an equal opportunity employer and states that candidates may apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification.
About Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
Flagship Pioneering invents, builds, and finances platform biotechnology companies in human health and sustainability, providing founding science, capital, and operational support to entrepreneurs and researchers. The privately held firm, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, has originated more than 100 ventures and maintains an ecosystem of 40+ companies. Notable portfolio companies include Moderna, Denali Therapeutics, Generate:Biomedicines, Indigo Agriculture, and Tessera Therapeutics.