Data Engineer

Description

About Norstella

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.

Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:

• Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
• Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
• MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
• Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
• The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics.

As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

Data Engineering

Norstella’s brands are helping the world’s top pharmaceutical, medtech and clinical research organizations connect the dots from pipeline to patient in ways no one else can. It’s changing the industry – and it’s changing lives.

THE TEAM

Building on this success, we know there is more scope for data acquisition, data pipeline orchestration. advanced data processing, real time data ingestion and data science. The Data Engineering team consists of a blend of data engineers and data scientists with wide-ranging skills located across the globe.
As part of our growth, we are looking for new data engineers to help building data engineering pipelines and to support the production of new products. We have multi-functional teams consisting of pharmaceutical industry experts, R&D, data engineering and data scientists to rapidly prototype new visualisations and interactive reports using both our existing and newly acquired datasets.

SCOPE OF THE ROLE

In this role as a Data Engineer, you will:

• Design and optimization of database solutions that sit upstream of main production environment.
• Creation of optimized upstream database systems in Apache Pinot, RDS Databases and Redshift databases.
• Pulling, processing and structuring new data sets, from public and private sources, e.g. claims data.
• Automate data pipelines using Step Function, Airflow and AWS serverless compute services.
• Develop & maintain data publication and synchronization processes, supporting Norstella Data platform (NDP).
• Productionizing Data Warehouse for all data platforms.

HOW YOU'LL SUCCEED

You will work with RWD team to understand a problem which is hindering developing and releasing effective new data products which we believe we can help with. After understanding the problem and how it can be solved, you will work with the team to provide carefully curated and transformed data for the product.
The data sources may be already available in database, and simply require dedicated views, or be more complex such as ingestion of external datasets, use of Data acquisition Framework (DAF) to gather data, or to join with data from other companies within the Norstella group. Working with the broader product team, this dataset will be continuously updated, cleaned, and refined.

Data Engineering

After iterating the design with the visualisation team, the prototype will be demoed and if suitable converted into a full production product. This will involve productionizing the pipeline using Step Function / Airflow and other AWS cloud services, ensuring it is automatically refreshed with data if required, and putting in place monitoring and alerts so any issues can be identified and solved rapidly.

WHAT IT TAKES

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent SQL querying skills and stored procedure creation skills.
• Experience handling large data sets in formats such as XML, JSON and CSV.
• Building data pipelines.
• Good Python knowledge, with a focus on data manipulation.
• AWS Data services (S3, Glue, MWAA, Lambda, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, SQS, SES, etc.)
• Superior communication skills, friendly approach to business and the ability to grow and adapt as business does.
• Finger on the pulse with new & emerging technologies.

Desirable:

• AWS certifications.
• Redshift / Any Columnar / Any RDS certifications.
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI or QuickSight.

• Our guiding principles for success at Norstella

  
  01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
  We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.
  
  02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
  We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.
  
  03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace
  We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.
  
  04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance
  We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.
  
  05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning
  We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.
  

  Benefits

  
  
  • Health Insurance
  • Provident Fund
  • Reimbursement of Certification Expenses
  • Gratuity
  • 24x7 Health Desk
  
  
  Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.
  
  Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we’re just as excited about you.