Data Engineering Professional II

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Job Description

The Future Begins Here: At Takeda, we are creating a future-ready organization that uses data and digital to meet the needs of patients, our people, and the planet. We need your help to make this happen. Join our Innovation Capability Centre (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia.

At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity: Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and the abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators’ journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.

The Opportunity

As Data Engineer Professional II, you will be responsible for building and maintaining data systems and constructing data tables and data models that are optimized for operations and analysis, supporting several Business Function requirements and downstream systems. 
 
Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable data models and pipelines using AWS native technologies to support increasing data sources, volumes, and complexity. 

• Collaborate with several business functions to improve data models and its quality to support the development of digital products, fostering data-driven decision-making across the organization. 

• Implement processes and systems to ensure data reconciliation, monitor data quality, and ensure production data is accurate and available for key stakeholders, downstream systems, digital products, and business processes. 

• Write unit, integration, and performance test scripts, contribute to engineering documentation, and maintain the engineering wiki. 

• Perform data analysis to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues. 

• Work closely with AGILE SCRUM Teams, specifically frontend and backend engineers, product managers, scrum masters, quality engineers to deliver integrated and scalable data products. 

• Collaborate with enterprise teams, including Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Enterprise Data Backbone Engineering, to design and develop data integration patterns and models supporting various digital products. 

• Partner with DevOps and the Cloud Center of Excellence to deploy data pipeline solutions in the Takeda AWS environments, meeting security and performance standards. 

• Support and align with Data Trustees, Data Stewards, and Master Data Management functions following Data Governance principles. 

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS 

Essential Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. 

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, software development, data warehousing, data lake/mesh, and supporting digital products developing data products following FAIR data principles. 

• Strong expertise in data integration, data modeling, and modern database technologies (GraphQL, SQL, No-SQL, python, pySpark) and AWS cloud technologies (e.g., DMS, Lambda, Databricks, SQS, Step Functions, Data Streaming). 

• Extensive experience in DBA, schema design & dimensional modeling, and SQL optimization. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 

• Understanding of good engineering practices (DevSecOps, source-code versioning using GIT) 

• Proficient working in AGILE SCRUM Teams and using JIRA and Confluence 

• Knowledge of SDLC Proficiency with version control (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab) and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) 

• Good understanding of software security principles and secure coding practices. 

• Knowledge of automated testing tools and frameworks and practices (unit testing, integration testing, E2E testing). 

• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB). 

• Understanding & practice with Github Copilot / Claude Code / other

 Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with streaming technologies like Spark Streaming or Kafka 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience, preferably with Terraform. 

• Experience designing and developing API data integrations using SOAP / REST / FAST. 

• Agentic / GenAI / RAG / LLM

WHAT TAKEDA CAN OFFER YOU

At Takeda, you may build your career, while contributing to better people’s lives. Expect trust driven culture built around Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance. Joining ICC will give you access to high end technology, training and colleagues who will support your growth.

Benefits:

Here are a few benefits our employees are enjoying at Takeda. To get a full picture of what we are offering, follow this link.

• Cafeteria

• Medical - High standard medical care

• Bridge days

• Summer Hours

• Multisport Card

Locations

SVK - Bratislava – Svatoplukova

Base Salary Range:

€39,000.00 - €53,680.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

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Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time