Hybrid Senior Data Engineer

at Thermo Fisher Scientific

• Job title: Senior Data Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $103,100 - $154,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Amazon Redshift, Apache, AWS, Cloud, Cognos, Kafka, Oracle, Python, Spark, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Carlsbad, United States

About the role

• Senior Data Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific, leveraging data engineering expertise in a meaningful mission. Focus on building data solutions to aid in global environmental and health challenges.

Responsibilities

• As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll find meaningful work that impacts the world.
• Join us in bringing our Mission to life daily to help customers make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
• We provide resources to support your career goals and develop solutions for global challenges like environmental protection, food safety, and cancer cures.

Requirements

• Proven experience (5+ years) in data engineering with a strong understanding of modern data architecture, pipelines, and operations.
• 5 years of demonstrated expertise in Databricks and Spark, Python, Apache, SQL including pipeline creation, automation, and monitoring
• 5 years or more hands-on experience crafting and administrating relational database solutions, including AWS Delta Lake, Oracle, and AWS Redshift
• 5 years or more experience handling and managing AWS products, including Spark, Glue, Kafka, Elastic Search, Lambda, S3, Redshift, and others
• Strong problem-solving skills with debugging, performance tuning, and AI/ML model deployment in cloud environments
• Prior experience with tools like Power BI, Cognos, SQL Server, and Oracle is a strong plus
• Deep understanding of data modeling, metadata management, and data governance frameworks
• Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring data workflows using Apache Airflow
• 5 years of solid experience in DevOps/DataOps or equivalent roles, version control platforms (such as GitHub), and continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• Demonstrated experience in leading engineering projects and managing project lifecycles
• A self-starter with the drive and ability to deliver complex solutions rapidly
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical personnel in oral and written form
• Ensure stable and timely data pipelines that support period-end and quarter-end financial close processes, enabling accurate reporting and reconciliations
• Monitor, solve, and optimize finance workflows during close cycles to guarantee data completeness, performance, and SLA compliance

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• A minimum of 120 hours of paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave including 3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiving.
• Accident and life insurance are provided, along with short- and long-term disability as outlined in company policy.
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount