Senior Data Engineer

Description

Senior Data Engineer

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

Lead advanced software development, testing, and deployment in both R and Python environments, utilizing tools such as:

• R: devtools, usethis, roxygen2, testthat, shinytest2, autovalidate-R
• Python: Pytest, Unittest, Tox, Coverage.py
• Architect scalable CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and containerization strategies (Docker).
• Oversee package deployment and maintenance via Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Posit Package Manager, GitLab PyPi, JFrog PyPi, and documentation with MKDocs.
• Lead clinical data strategy, proactively communicate with the clients, aligning stakeholders and supporting innovation in data engineering and performance optimization.
• Apply deep expertise in Snowflake SQL, data warehousing, and clinical domain knowledge (DCH products, Ocean SDTMv).
• Foster an open-source culture and champion automation, collaboration, and process excellence.
• Act as a Super User (mentors the SMEs) in tool usage, process improvements, and technical best practices.
• Manage timelines, risks, and stakeholder expectations across diverse projects.
• Participate code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to best practices
  
  

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Summary

The Senior Technical Specialist is a technical leader who delivers expert programming solutions, drives process optimization, and leads innovation initiatives across multiple studies. This role requires mastery of R/Python, SQL/Snowflake, automation, and deployment strategies, as well as strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.