Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a global pharmaceutical company with its own distribution channels around the world.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements to underlying infrastructure applications, systems, and processes to enable execution of those skills.
• Manage technology projects focusing on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence in the following technology stack: AWS (e.g., S3, RedShift, etc.), Qlik, etc.
• Design data systems and pipelines for processing and storing data including both structured and unstructured data.
• Process mapping, process improvement and translation into technical requirements.
• Provide oversight to existing operational solutions processes and activities. Develop governance models to ensure data integrity.
• Define/scope projects effectively and propose a structured and practical approach to solving complex and ill-defined problems.
• Explore and understand sophisticated data sets, identify, formulate correlational rules between heterogenous sources and build scalable ETL and ETL workflows for effective analytics and reporting
• Identify Data Validation rules and alerts based on data publishing specifications for data integrity and anomaly detection
• Provide impactful and credible communication to senior stakeholders internally and externally with the ability to tailor language and knowledge to meet the needs of the business
• Manage projects to include efficient resource mobilization, vendor selection, definition of scope and requirements, and achievement of timelines, budgets & deliverables

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in data engineering or related field, preferably in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or high-tech industries
• Relevant professional experience with Big Data systems, pipelines and data processing.
• Ability to develop scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats for reporting and analytics, and support project team to scale, monitor and operate data platforms
• Strong understanding of Data Warehousing/Informatics/Business Intelligence concepts and methodologies from both operations and project execution views
• Expertise in SQL and Dependency driven job schedulers
• Strong communication and influencing skills to be able to communicate (verbal and written) technical and non-technical information clearly to a diverse audience and gain impact with senior-level decision makers
• Excellent organizational, planning, project, vendor and resource management skills with a strong attention to detail and ability to effectively manage cross-functional projects
• Keen analytical mind with superior problem solving and technical skills, reflecting in-depth knowledge of various secondary databases and their limitations
• Politically astute with sound judgement and able to challenge respectfully and constructively
• Collaborative and co-creational role-model, leading work horizontally, vertically, and transversally across a regional organization, including cross-functionally
• Strong learning agility able to rapidly study, analyse, understand and be effective in new situations and manage new business problems
• Fluent in written and spoken business Japanese and English

Salary

10 - 13 million yen

Location

Tokyo