Data Engineer
AbbottAbout the role
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Title: Data Engineer
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 a high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
The Data Engineer is within our Informatics division in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics and will be based out of our Chicago (IL) (Willis Tower), Lake Forest (IL), or Charlottesville, ( VA) office. This role is on site.
Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
This role is part of a talented engineering team where you will work alongside product, architecture, and dev-ops teams to build high-quality data pipelines for healthcare solutions aggregating clinical data from our portfolio of medical devices.
What You’ll Work On
Create, deploy and optimize large scale data
Use extensive data engineering expertise to design and build solutions/ products for analyzing large data sets and identify patterns and relationships
Manage data sources, organize data and create data assets using identified open source or proprietary tools
Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals.
Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that help the organization achieve its goals.
Code in Python and Scala with tools like Apache Spark/Kafka to build a multi-cluster data warehouse.
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, 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.
Code in SQL to create curated data products.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in any of the following – Math, Physics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Quantitative Sciences Experience leading & executing complex (multi stakeholder/multiyear) contract negotiations or equivalent of years of experience in similar role.
Minimum 3 years of experience or master's degree and one year internship or equivalent of years of experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong problem-solving skills
Experience in any from MS Azure, AWS, Python, Spark, hive, HBase, Hadoop, Kafka, YARN etc.
Attention to detail and organization/ documentation skills
Ability to prioritize and triage deadline-driven tasks in a high-pressure environment
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