Principal Data Engineer, Commercial Data

The Role: 
In this role you will be part of the Commercial Data team and play a key role in defining, building and advancing Modena’s Commercial strategy. Your mission will be to design and deliver cutting-edge data and analytics solutions that power Moderna’s quantitative analysis, AI, decision support, and business reporting. These solutions will become the foundation that Moderna needs to deliver sophisticated business analytics, required to bring our life-changing medicines to market. 

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, and versatile individual who can define end-to-end analytics solutions, easily pivot between strategy and execution, and be passionate about learning and developing at the pace of our rapidly growing business. The ideal candidate will have a solid experience developing modern data solutions in Amazon Web Services and have a solid understanding of the traditional data warehousing paradigms. 
 

Here's What You’ll Do: 

• Partner with leadership on planning, prototyping, documenting and initiating new projects and programs

• Analyze business requirements and create conceptual data lake/lakehouse solution architectures, data models, and data processes

• Lead highly technical discussions, generate technical solutions, critically evaluate data architecture, models, and processes.

• Partner with Data engineers and management on advancing and maintaining tech roadmap for the Data Platform. Effectively promote the tech agenda and assure key platform initiatives are implemented in the timely manner

• Provide technical direction, serve as a mentor / leader to other members of the team

• Gather, document, and analyze solution requirements; produce development estimates

• Design, develop, test and deploy data collection, flow and transformation components

• Troubleshoot and support existing data workflow processes; deliver fixes and optimizations where appropriate

• Partner with the user community, software engineers and operations specialists on data related investigations, research and issue management 

Here’s What You’ll Need: 

• Passion for improving business outcomes through data and analytics

• Track record of working effectively on project teams as developer, as an architect or as a team leader

• Experience building data solutions with the Amazon Web Services (S3, EMR, Data Pipeline, Redshift)

• Outstanding SQL and Python skills

• Experience with Spark and Map Reduce is preferred

• Experience with information delivery architecture, design and tools, including Tableau, Looker, Quicksight, etc.

• Solid development experience with Hadoop and its ecosystem of tools

• Strong understanding of traditional Data Warehousing principles and architecture 

• Ability to deploy and manage software in Linux

• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM model

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders, mentor junior resources, and effectively handle multiple tasks/deadlines with success

• Bachelor's degree in a technology or a related discipline is preferred

• Under Washington State law, Moderna is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for the jobs covered by this description.  Base compensation for these positions in Washington State range from $142,200.00 - 256,100.00 USD. Actual salary determinations will take into account factors such as work location, prior education and experience, job-related knowledge, and demonstrated skills.  Compensation decisions are made on the facts and circumstances of each case.

In addition to base compensation Moderna employees are eligible for a comprehensive incentive compensation package including an annual cash bonus, new hire equity and an annual refresh, 401(k) match, competitive and inclusive medical, dental, and vision coverage options, flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care, Life, LTD, and STD insurance, paid family leave offerings, including at least 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, lifestyle spending account, adoption, surrogacy, and family-planning benefits, generous paid time off, including:
•    Vacation, sick time, and observed Company-wide holidays
•    Paid volunteer time to participate within your community
•    Discretionary winter holiday shut down 
•    Paid 4-week sabbatical after 5 years, and every 3 years after

Moderna is pleased to provide you and your family with a comprehensive and innovative suite of benefits, including:

• Highly competitive and inclusive medical, dental and vision coverage options