Job Description

Position Overview

Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to helping people live more fully at all stages of life. Our comprehensive portfolio of life-changing technologies covers the full spectrum of healthcare, including leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. With 114,000 dedicated colleagues, we serve individuals in over 160 countries.

This role is for an inventive Data Engineer who will build the data pipeline essential for our research scientists to continue developing innovative algorithms.

What You’ll Work On

• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines for analyzing large datasets and identifying patterns and relationships.
• Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that help the organization achieve its goals.
• Manage data sources, organize data, and create data assets using identified open-source or proprietary tools.
• Design and implement cloud security and access control mechanisms to protect data from unauthorized use.
• Interact with other technology teams to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments for other operational components.
• Advise, consult, mentor, and coach other data and analytics professionals on data standards and practices.
• Foster a culture of sharing, reuse, and design for scale, stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions.
• Codify best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate data capturing and management.
• Write SQL code to create curated data products.

Requirements

• Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or another technical field.
  • Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in data engineering/analytics.
  • Experience developing solutions for cloud computing services, cloud security, and infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure.

• Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience developing solutions on cloud services such as SageMaker, EC2, S3, EMR, Redshift, IAM, etc.
  • Experience developing and maintaining data warehouses in big data solutions.
  • Expertise in SQL and data analysis.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with at least one programming language: Python and/or Scala.
  • Strong knowledge in one or more of the following big data tools: Spark, Hive.
  • Strong expertise in ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, and hands-on experience.
  • Up-to-date on industry trends within the analytics space from a data acquisition, processing, engineering, and management perspective.
  • Strong people skills, specifically in collaboration and teamwork.
  • High level of curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving capabilities.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and the FreeU education benefit – an affordable and convenient path to obtaining a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company recognized as one of the best big companies to work for, as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

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Company Information

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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