Senior Data Engineer

About the Position

At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where "Health for all, Hunger for none" is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there. We give people the ownership to shape outcomes, the support to grow through new skills and experiences, and a global community where different perspectives are valued. If you want your work to count and the room to become your best, you'll find it here.

Senior Data Engineer

At Bayer, we are committed to transparency, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and objective reward practices in line with EU and local regulations. The minimum monthly gross compensation for this role is 20 240 PLN, with final pay determined based on objective factors such as experience, qualifications, scope of responsibility, and internal alignment. This position is eligible for variable pay components, such as performance-based bonuses, awarded in accordance with the applicable employee group, role scope, and compensation structure.

In addition, Bayer offers a competitive and holistic benefits package, including:

• Medical care above statutory requirements
• Flexible benefits supporting leisure, and well-being/sports programs
• Life, accident, and disability insurance through group coverage
• Employer-supported pension plans with regular company contributions
• Home office allowance to support hybrid or remote work
• Company car provided (as a working Benefit)
• Extra Paid Holidays

Benefits may vary depending on country, role, and employment conditions.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are part of Bayer's Data & AI Team with a focus on creating data solutions that provide timely, high-quality data to scientists, analysts, and AI agents. You will closely collaborate with experts from business and IT to design, implement and operate reliable GxP-validated data pipelines that enable timely and secure access to high-quality data for clinical studies in our Clinical Data Lakehouse, combining a solid understanding for the clinical data flow with excellent technical and conceptual skills.

• Lead the development and operation of reliable data pipelines to store, transform, share and analyze clinical data, enabling an efficient clinical data flow in compliance to legal and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate closely with relevant stakeholders in an agile setup to capture, specify and address data-related requirements and dependencies to ensure a fit-for-purpose technical implementation in a healthy data ecosystem.
• Actively exchange with peers, embracing and applying best-practices to maintain a coherent, consolidated and scalable data landscape.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of integration patterns, FAIR data principles and semantics to enable efficient, compliant, and secure data consumption by humans, systems, and AI agents within and beyond the primary data context.
• Collaborate with infrastructure experts to ensure a robust, efficient, secure and fit-for-purpose setup, leveraging infrastructure-as-code and composable architecture.
• Mentor less-experienced colleagues and uphold high standards in requirements specification, engineering practices, code review, testing, and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data operations, or a similar role, delivering production-grade data pipelines and services.
• Strong ownership of deliverables, high standards for code review and peer mentorship, and a commitment to clear documentation, metadata/lineage publishing, and sustainable data engineering standards and practices.
• Proficiency with Databricks, including DBX Asset Bundles, Lakeflow Jobs, Unity Catalog, Access control and governance model and Databricks CLI.
• Experience with API design patterns and Ability to integrate data from source systems using various interface patterns, such as OpenSharing/Delta Sharing, Iceberg-Sharing, ODBC, GraphQL, OData, REST, or event streaming.
• Strong engineering skills (data engineering, software engineering, or cloud engineering).
• Proficiency in Python programming, especially PySpark and Kapitan.
• Experience in Git, including Github Actions, CI/CD Pipelines (declarative YAML), Branching strategies, and trunk-based development.
• Understanding of data security principles and practices.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Good communication and collaboration abilities to work independently in a self-organized team.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GxP validation and Computerized Systems Validation.
• Experience in Requirements Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-code, ideally Terraform on AWS.
• In-depth knowledge of FAIR Data Principles, Linked Data principles, and Data Mesh architecture concepts, with demonstrated ability to apply them in practice.
• Experience with semantic layer concepts in modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience designing and implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
• Hands-on experience with GraphRAG solution design and implementation.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Cloud engineering experience (e.g. AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge in the pharmaceutical domain (e.g. LOINC, SNOMED CT, omics, targets, assays, clinical studies, RWE, etc.).

We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Variable pay components, such as performance-based bonuses.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical care, flexible benefits, life insurance, pension plans, home office allowance, company car, and extra paid holidays.
• Opportunity to work in a hybrid model, allowing flexibility between home and office work environments.

About the Company

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination. Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

Bayer respects and applies the Whistleblower Act in Poland.

Location

Poland : Mazowieckie : Warszawa

Division

PH DS&AI

Reference Code

894941

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