Data Engineer

Evaluate is a global company providing market intelligence services for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Financial and Consulting sectors, through the Evaluate Pharma®, Evaluate Medtech®, Evaluate Omnium and Evaluate Vantage® brands. Our international clients in Pharma and Biotech, Medtech, Banking and Consultancy regard Evaluate Pharma® as the industry’s gold standard for timely and accurate analysis of reported drug sales, consensus sales forecasts, R&D pipeline, markets and comprehensive company financials.

THE TEAM

Building on this success, we know there is more scope for advanced data processing and data science, and this year Evaluate is investing heavily in the data science team. The team consists of a blend of seven data engineers and data scientists with wide-ranging skills. It is based in London with extra specialist support in Ukraine via our technology partner for CI/CD and data warehousing.

As part of our growth we are looking for new data engineers to help support the production of new products. We have small 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 optimisation of database solutions that sit upstream of main production environment
• Creation of optimised upstream database systems, e.g. consolidated/standardised clinical trial or pricing database (across multiple geographies)
• Pulling, processing and structuring new data sets, from public and private sources, e.g. research abstracts
• Automate data pipelines using Airflow and AWS serverless compute services
• Develop & maintain data publication and synchronization processes, supporting Tableau
• Productionising Tableau data transforms

HOW YOU’LL SUCCEED

You will work with R&D pharma specialists to understand a problem which is hindering developing and releasing effective new pharma products which we believe we can help with. After understanding the problem and how it can be solved, you will work with Tableau visualisation teams to provide carefully curated and transformed data for the product.

The data sources may be already available in Snowflake, and simply require dedicated views, or be more complex such as ingestion of external datasets, use of web crawlers 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.

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 productionising the pipeline using Airflow, 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.

Requirements

WHAT IT TAKES

• Bachelor 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 (using common tools such as Snowflake Snowpipes)
• Good Python knowledge (2-3 years), with a focus on data manipulation
• AWS Data services (S3, Glue, MWAA)
• 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
• Snowflake certifications
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI or QuickSight

Benefits

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 over 9 years) + 8 bank holidays
• Value You Day - one additional wellbeing day on top of your holiday allowance
• Pension plan - company contribution of 6.7% rising to 10% after 12 months service
• Life Assurance 4 x salary
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Private Medical Insurance*
• Corporate Gym Membership/Discount*
• Flexible working and flexitime policies
• Season Ticket Loan*
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave – including enhanced leave for 2+ years’ service
• Shared parental leave

(*following successful completion of probation period)

Evaluate is an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, 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 behaviour and our business requirements. Evaluate operates a zero tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.