Principal Data Engineer

What if… you could tell the story of an organization that conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability?

Since its launch in 2000 Flagship Pioneering has, through its Flagship Pioneering Labs unit, applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $130 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship has deployed over $2.5 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions.

Flagship Pioneering presents compelling opportunities for impact-focused technology professionals:

• The Flagship Labs ecosystem is composed of new and growing companies with widely varying needs that span all aspects of technology, presenting incredible opportunities for learning and development.
• Flagship creates new companies that operate without the burden of legacy systems or technical debt. Individuals that understand the technical opportunities and challenges in company growth will have the opportunity to positively impact and influence the trajectory of dozens of companies.
• Flagship believes that the sophisticated use of modern digital and data technologies is a strategic differentiator for companies, with the potential to significantly alter their research, productivity, market position and long-term success. To deliver on this mission, Flagship seeks individuals who have a proven track record of solving enterprise-scale challenges while thriving in a dynamic startup culture.

Position Summary

The Principal Data Engineer will report to the Senior Director, Cloud Architecture and be part of the Engineering Data & Systems team, which supports Scientific Systems, Data, and Data Science needs for both Flagship Pioneering and Enterprise companies. This role will have responsibility for providing cloud based data solutions, best practices, and guidance to Flagship Pioneering and enterprise companies and be a key member in designing and building our Digital Backbone.

A typical day may involve developing API-centric data flow patterns between systems, authoring reference implementations for AWS scientific computing workloads, automating bioinformatics pipelines to analyze large datasets, creating crawlers for extracting, loading and transforming datasets, generally making it easier for data scientists to use their cloud environments and tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality, production ready code with well documented and testable APIs
• Work in a collaborative CI/CD software development environment, including use of git, participating in code reviews and independent development of robust code
• Build and maintain cloud-based infrastructure, blueprints, documentation and training materials
• Design and implement flexible cloud-based solutions of varying levels of sophistication
• Refine methods of data ingestion from external sources (e.g. CROs, data owners) to cloud accounts
• Provide expert guidance, code examples and reference implementations for a variety of AWS workloads
• Support portfolio companies on the pragmatic implementation of FAIR principles
• Collaborate with architects and technical leadership on the design and creation of a digital backbone for our companies
• May lead small teams of consultants to deliver solutions

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years data engineering experience
• Familiarity with datalake and lakehouse architectures
• AWS certifications or equivalent experience
• Expertise with various database technologies, including RDBMS, NoSQL, graph dbs
• Experience modeling data
• Proficiency with python, shell scripting, IaC, pipeline frameworks (e.g. NextFlow) and DevOps best practices
• A people person with an exceptional ability to collaborate with users of different backgrounds

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.   Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.