Job Description

Our company seeking a semantic data engineer into the Knowledge Graph & Semantic Engineering Services team for our Prague Tech Center. This team focuses on making use of research data efficient in support of data-driven drug discovery. We create reusable data products that provide analysis-ready data to our data scientists advancing pharmaceutical research. We design and implement tools for data acquisition, integration, and enrichment using semantic web technologies and data exchange standards to reduce the friction and duplication of application-specific data engineering effort.

We are looking for a semantic data engineer to support integration of laboratory instrument data using the industry standards from the Allotrope Foundation. In this role, the data engineer will enable frictionless data flow by using automation, data standards, and by following FAIR principles.

Key responsibilities

• Build ETL pipelines to integrate data from laboratory instruments in a knowledge graph
• Create database queries to support effective use of the laboratory instrument data
• Implement internal and industry best practices for DevOps and cloud engineering
• Develop our extensions of the Allotrope Foundation’s standards

Required experience and skills

• Semantic web technology stack (e.g., RDF data format, SPARQL query language)
• Amazon Web Services, particularly the serverless services (e.g., Lambda, Glue, Step Functions)
• Data engineering (e.g., SQL queries, ETL jobs)
• Programming in Python
• Experience with DevSecOps practices like continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), source code version control (e.g., Git), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform), and containers (e.g., Docker).

Desired experience and skills

• Cheminformatics and familiarity with the pharmaceutical research
• Good communication and collaboration skills, and ability to collaborate with other teams to develop solutions.
• Experience with Atlassian stack of tools for agile software development (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Demonstrate growth mindset and ability to work with enterprise teams.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner
• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Semantic Web Technologies

Preferred Skills:

Cheminformatics

Job Posting End Date:

10/31/2024

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