Data Engineer

Min Experience

2 years

Location

St Louis, MO, 63146 , USA, remote

JobType

full-time

About the role

Job Title: Data Engineer 

Location: St Louis, MO, 63146 

Duration: 12 Months   

Job Type: Contract     

Work Type:  Remote 

Pay Rate: $50-$85/Hourly/W2

 

Overview:      

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.    

Job Description:  

There is an enormous need and potential here to do something that has never been done before.  

We need great people to help transform these complex scientific datasets into innovative software that is deployed across the pipeline, accelerating the pace and quality of all crop system development decisions to unbelievable levels. 

What you will do is why you should join us: 

Be a critical senior member of a data engineering team focused on creating distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets 

Take pride in software craftsmanship, apply a deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve and innovate 

Work with other top-level talent solving a wide range of complex and unique challenges that have real world impact 

Explore relevant technology stacks to find the best fit for each dataset 

Pursue opportunities to present our work at relevant technical conferences 

Project your talent into relevant projects. Strength of ideas trumps position on an org chart 

If you share our values, you should have: 

At least 7 years experience in software engineering 

At least 2 years experience with Go 

Proven experience (2 years) building and maintaining data-intensive APIs using a RESTful approach 

Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafk 

A level of comfort with Unit Testing and Test Driven Development methodologies 

Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker 

A proven ability to build and maintain cloud based infrastructure on a major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform 

Experience data modeling for large scale databases, either relational or NoSQL 

Bonus points for: 

Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC 

Experience with: Google Cloud Platform, Apache Beam and or Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine or Kubernete 

Experience working with scientific datasets, or a background in the application of quantitative science to business problems 

Bioinformatics experience, especially large scale storage and data mining of variant data, variant annotation, and genotype to phenotype correlation 

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.  

Skills

Bioinformatics