Senior Data Engineer (Python, ELK)

In a nutshell

As a Senior Data Engineer you will leading our team, as you take ownership of complex tasks and guide the execution of engineering activities. You will be monitoring requirements elicitation, maintaining the team’s backlog, contributing to Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), conducting feasibility studies and proof of concepts.

You will also collaborate with the Security department on developed and delivered solutions. This position will report directly to the Program Leader. 

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

Based in Barcelona, you will join our Eurofins globally distributed IT Application Monitoring and Observability team;  which provides knowledge on operation of IT Systems and IT Infrastructure. Over 62K+ Eurofins employees relies on services that we are providing to conduct their daily operation. From basic application availability monitoring, through complex process analysis ending on advanced statistical and ML/AI methods to proactively counteract any unexpected events that can negatively impact the bussies. Handling over 3TB of data daily our goals is to collect, process, and visualize data to provide knowledge in easy and understandable way to the end users.

How can you help us? 

You will:

• Work on monitoring requirements elicitation and maintain the team’s backlog; 
• Contribute  to Architectural Decision Records (ADRs); 
• Conducting feasibility studies and proof of concepts; 
• Work extensively with Machine Learning algorithms for time series analysis (anomaly detection, pattern recognition, correlation and casual reasoning); 
• Work with NO-SQL databases, specifically Elasticsearch with LogStash; 
• Work with Python for data scientific purposes and REST microservice development;
• Develop scripting skills in Bash;
• Apply your statistical and data science concepts; 
• Apply DevOps principles in deploying, monitoring, and operating containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD; 
• Resort to modelling languages such as C4, UML, and ArchiMate.
• Utilize data visualization and storytelling techniques to convey insights effectively.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• Solid experience in data pipelines design and maintenance, for data analytics.
• Experience with Python
• Experience with the ELK stack 
• Experience with NOSQL databases

What else should I know? 

The following skills are an advantage:

• Experience with ML, Keras/Tensorflow;
• Mathematical (statistical) background;
• Experience with our Technical Stack:
  • Elastic Stack (especially: Beats, LogStash, Elasticsearch);
  • Docker, Kubernetes;
  • MS SQL Server;
  • Octopus;
  • Grafana;
  • Programming languages ( Ruby, in addition to Python);
  • Modelling language: C4. 

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
• A hybrid working setup; 
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged. 

Your application:

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

Want to know more about us?

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: 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 our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.