Data Engineer
- Your visionary insight aligns perfectly with the company's mission to improve lives through data.
- You foster collaboration and support for downstream data consumers.
- Your organized approach helps design reliable data pipelines with thorough quality checks.
- Your sensitivity to conflict may hinder giving direct feedback during troubleshooting.
- You might prioritize team harmony over essential performance optimizations.
About Us
At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges.
Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day.
If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Data Engineer with 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining data pipelines. You will develop solutions that extract, process, and transform internal and external data into reliable, usable datasets for analysis and other downstream applications.
This is an engineering-focused role requiring strong coding skills, database knowledge, and experience working with modern cloud data technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines.
- Extract, clean, transform, and model data from internal and external sources.
- Develop data solutions using Python and SQL.
- Work with large-scale datasets and cloud-based data infrastructure.
- Support data consumers, including analysts, data scientists, and product teams.
- Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot failures, and optimize performance.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of hands-on data engineering experience building and maintaining data pipelines.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Experience with at least one cloud data warehouse, such as BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Greenplum, or Vertica.
- Familiarity with an orchestration tool such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte.
- Cloud platform experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Strong database knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with BI/visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Superset, or Metabase.
- Knowledge of data modeling concepts such as dimensional modeling or Data Vault.
- Experience with Spark, Databricks, or Apache Beam.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Open-source contributions or other technical projects demonstrating hands-on engineering skills.
Why Join Us?
- Small team energy, big company support-backed by BGBx and Kx
- High-impact work, early responsibility-you’ll contribute from day one
- A learning-first culture-mentorship, peer support, and space to grow
- A genuinely fun, curious environment-we take the work seriously, not ourselves
- Strategy meets creativity-where insight, brand, and behavior collide
- A future-facing mission-everything we do aims to improve lives
If you're ready to bring curiosity, strategy, and creativity together to reimagine healthcare-and make a real difference to people’s lives, let’s talk.
Salary range: EUR60,000 - EUR75,000 /year base plus bonus eligible
What We Offer
At BGBx, we invest in our people because exceptional talent drives exceptional work. We provide a competitive rewards package designed to support your health, well-being, professional growth, and life outside of work.
Our benefits package typically includes health care insurance, retirement plans, generous paid time off and holidays, wellness benefits, life insurance, learning and development opportunities, and other resources that support our employees throughout their careers. Additional benefits may be available based on your location. Beyond benefits, you'll find a culture built on collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on healthcare and the people it serves.
BGBx is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.
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