Principal Associate-IT

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in AgroScience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997.

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture, and we offer fulfilling careers.

TITLE

Senior Data Engineer – Information Security (Service Delivery Management)

REPORTING To:

Manager Information Security (Service Delivery Management)

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:

Eurofins today is strengthening the Information Security Reporting area. The employee will be responsible for designing and maintenance of data pipelines, delivering data for reports that are used by several IT departments (IT Quality Assurance, IT Service Management, IT Compliance, Information Security, IT Infrastructure). Responsibilities would also include maintenance of the solutions the data pipelines run on.

Job overview:
 

The role of the Senior Data Engineer is to analyse the requirements, source the data, orchestrate the data transformation, and then maintain and support the data pipelines and infrastructure they are running on (e.g. Jenkins CI/CD). These activities will be done in close collaboration with the GSC IT Information Security and GSC IT Service Management & Reporting crews.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze approved requirements from stakeholders (across IT and business functions),
• Work with the domain experts and data/app owners to transform the data,
• Design, create, orchestrate, and maintain the data pipelines and data extraction scripts,
  • Write scripts to extract the data (Python / Power Shell),
  • Manage the application layer for the CI/CD solutions used to deploy the pipeline code (currently Jenkins),
• Assess data quality,
• Monitor CI/CD jobs and troubleshoots failures,
• Document the data dictionary and data pipelines / business rules,
• Work with Data Engineers to deploy/ coordinate the deployment of new data sources.

Must haves:

Comprehensive understanding of database design and operations (MS SQL)

Programming in a relevant programing language (Python experience is strongly preferred but may be replaced with exceptional skills in other programing languages)

Desire to expand programing and IT infrastructure knowledge if needed

Experience in running managing and deploying code

Experience in integrating with data sources over API

Understanding of cloud IT services (primarily MS Azure)

Software engineering experience; preferably with understanding best practices when using DevOps/GIT

Ability to drive meetings with Service Matter Experts and follow through with implementation of the discussed concepts

Nice to haves:

• Understanding of Cybersecurity concepts/ experience with working with information security tools,
• Understanding of IT infrastructure operations,
• Familiarity with Data Warehouse / Data Lake architectures,
• Understanding the concepts behind API security,
• Experience in deploying CI/CD solutions,
• Experience working in an Agile or ITIL managed organization,
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions.

Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills (in English, both orally and in the writing, including moderating meetings);
• Bachelor or master’s degree in a STEM field;
• 5+ years of proven experience in the data engineering field;
• Understanding the concepts of data warehousing, including ETL/ ELT (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data migration and data modeling is essential;