About us

Nexer Czech republic is a division within DANIR AB – an IT consulting and R&D company. We have the opportunity to work with world-renowned brands from Scandinavia, the USA, the UK, and Western Europe. Our goal is to grow strong but rather in competencies than in numbers.

If you like what we do, see our offer, maybe it is you we will have the pleasure to meet! 🙂

The project and the role description:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will significantly impact the role of data engineering on the delivery of Data Products to the Oncology R&D organisation. Ensuring we are continuously advancing our data stack as well as our automation and observability capabilities will be central to your work.

Our German client is an AI-driven biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of advanced medicines. Their vision is to make data science a driver of innovation in oncology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining the infrastructure and pipelines for extracting, transforming,and loading data for use in data products and analyses.
• Working with data scientists and other stakeholders to understand the data needsand requirements of the organization and designing data systems and pipelines to meet these needs.
• Implementing data ingestion, transformation, and storage systems in a FAIR and high-quality way
• Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of data systems and pipelines.
• Implementing data governance policies and procedures to ensure the security, privacy, and integrity of data.
• Collaborating with other members of the data team to build and maintain data products and services.
• Staying up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in the field of data engineering

**You might be the perfect match if you are/have:

• Deep knowledge of Python and vast experience with Python data and scientific
  libraries like pandas, numpy/scipy, polars, etc
• An ability to interact with various data sources, both structured and unstructured (e.g. HDFS, SQL, noSQL)
• Experience working across multiple scientific compute environments to create dataworkflows and pipelines (e.g. HPC, cloud, Unix/Linux systems)
• Understanding of the FAIR data principles and how they apply to the delivery of integrated X-Omics solutions
• Deep understanding of typical data quality issues, cleaning and masking techniques
• Fluency in English (C1) to work effectively in a multinational team;
• Location in CZECHIA or SLOVAKIA for easy signing of cooperation offers and occasional team meetings.

**Moreover, we appreciate skills in these areas:

• Experience working with metadata models, controlled vocabularies and ontologies
• Experience with deploying data pipelines using orchestration services:
  Airflow/Prefect/AWS Glue/Dagster/etc.
• Experience using AWS services: S3/EBS, EC2, CloudWatch, SNS and Lambda.
• Understanding of software development, testing and quality processes, experience
  with testing frameworks and documentation
• Expertise with biological/health data, especially NGS and other ‘omic technologies.
• Ability to understand, map, integrate, and document complex data relationship and
  business rules

Why should you choose us:

• Exciting projects, multinational and inspiring environment for talented IT professionals. Various projects in diverse, cutting-edge industries. Biotech, Automotive, Internet of Things, or AR/VR;
• Becoming a part of a team of motivated individuals that are here to stay. We value loyalty – as you grow, we grow with you;
• Respect for your private life so you don’t have to work overtime or on weekends;
• Online and offline events – Barcelona, Goteborg, Oslo, Capetown are among our business and integration trip destinations.

Perks and benefits:

• Salary: 5000-56000 Kč/MD
• Fully remote, hybrid or HO – choice is up to you! 🙂
• Employment type: B2B
• Personal Training Budged and Passion Day – an extra day off for your passion, hobby, and growth to spend as you please;
• Flexible working hours with no micro-management approach. Our core hours are 10-15, the rest of the working time is your decision;
• We provide high-quality work equipment.