Data Engineer

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 new Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia.

In this role at our state-of-the-art center, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and create solutions that will benefit patients around the world. Become the heart of our internal innovation engine.

At Takeda we unite in diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where individuals are recognized for the diverse backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continually improving workplace experience and accessibility for everyone, and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our Team.

The Opportunity 

As a Data Engineer you will be tasked with creating an ecosystem to have the right data, to ask the right question, at the right time. You will be working in the Data Engineering and Emerging Technologies team, a typical day will include 

Responsibilities 

• Apply advanced techniques to complex problems in R&D and other organizations. 
• Work directly with the Data Science in R&D at Takeda along with other advanced analytics organizations across the company. 
• Apply advance techniques in structured, partly structured and unstructured data across different partner organizations.  
• Implement solutions for both big data and difficult to structure data sets. 
• Maintain up-to-data knowledge on modern data technologies, explores new platforms and beta tooling. 
• Independently use own judgement to identify data requirements and influences the design. 
• Influence new computer science platforms to design, analyze and implement complex and new data driven solutions that impact the company. 
• Provide leadership to complex data analysis, uses and explores data, languages, tools and software to best construct data for predictive modeling, tests the model, trains data to deploy the modeling within a complex R&D, Medical, Mathematical environment and a large complexity of IT systems and data. 

Skills and Qualifications 

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent 
• 2+ years’ experience or relevant project / coursework 
• Up-to-date specialized knowledge of data wrangling, manipulation and management of technologies. 
• Ability to manipulate voluminous data with different degree of structuring across disparate sources to build and communicate actionable insights for internal or external parties. 
• Possesses strong communication skills to portray information. 
• Ability to work in an agile environment with high quality deliverables. 

Tools and Technology 

• Experience with one of the following languages: Java, Scala, or Python 
• Understanding of Web Services as well as JSON formats 
• Working knowledge of SQL and Relational Databases 
• Experience with one of the following NoSQL datastores (Cassandra, MongoDB, Neo4J, …) 
• Experience with concepts of Hadoop and Spark 
• Understanding of AWS (S3, EC2, Redshift, EMR, Athena) - desired 
• Experience with a Rapid UI tools: EX: Tableau – desired