Japan Data Engineer
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Level
Senior
Department
Engineering
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
February 6, 2023
Data Engineering is part of a diverse and talented team with strong expertise in discovering and understanding customer needs, and rapidly prototyping and iterating on data products. We define data strategy, drive technical execution and initial rollout of the product and leverage data insights to improve operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data pipelines using Python and SQL to model and transform Japanese medical data into research-ready datasets.
- Build and maintain data infrastructure systems that are flexible, scalable, and meet the needs of a rapidly changing business.
- Devise and build data analyses and visualizations to optimize Flatiron's processes and products and to model and transform Japanese medical data into research-ready datasets.
- Immerse yourself in business and technical context to help your team identify opportunities for unlocking new value from our unique datasets
- Rapidly iterate on early stage products where a hybrid skill set of product intuition, customer empathy and data expertise is essential
Job Requirements
- You have the technical skill to design scalable analytical data models, and have a strong intuition for how to model and clean data
- You are versatile and can easily pick up new programming languages and tools, but come with strong experience in Python and SQL.
- You have at least 3 years of industry experience in relevant roles such as data engineer, software engineer, software engineer, data scientist, data analyst, or similar; and a track record of success driving initiatives forward by generating buy-in, managing complexity and continuously delivering business impact
- You are fluent (or professional-level) in both Japanese and English
- While data engineering is your main strength, you have some experience in statistics/analytics and can fit the appropriate analysis to complex business problems
- You have collaborated with other technical team members in a production development environment using formal version control and one or more modern programming languages
- You care more about fixing our customers’ problems and advancing cancer treatment than you do about dealing with the coolest / newest data processing techniques
- You are a clear and confident communicator who can explain technical concepts to business and clinical partners
- You are value-oriented and practical in how you apply data to problems and understand what it takes to build sustainable products at scale
- You are passionate about our mission to improve cancer care through data and technology
