Job Description

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You\'ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter\'s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives\xe2\x80\x94where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Nothing changes if nothing changes, which is why Baxter is transforming our global IT function\xe2\x80\x94into one that will strengthen partnerships and enable smarter, more efficient and connected business processes. In the dynamic healthcare industry, we need to be ready to face new challenges and opportunities. As we learn, we must be agile and innovative to reveal new ways of working. Technology and our digital capability will help create a more efficient and innovative ecosystem to enable our employees, customers and products to drive better outcomes for patients worldwide.

We are at the critical intersection where robust IT infrastructure and networking support meets the physicians, nurses and care givers who save and sustain lives. Together, we can build upon Baxter\xe2\x80\x99s rich heritage to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations. Together, we can change how IT meets healthcare. Together, we are Baxter.

This is where technology fuels purpose-driven work. Where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary:

Perform development work and technical support related to our data transformation and ETL jobs in support of a global data warehouse. Requires the ability to work independently, as well as in cooperation with a variety of customers and other technical professionals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This section contains a list of five to eight primary responsibilities of this role that account for 5% or more of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.

• Development of new ETL/data transformation jobs, using PySpark and IBM DataStage in AWS.
• Enhancement and support on existing ETL/data transformation jobs.
• Can explain technical solutions and resolutions with internal customers and communicate feedback to the ETL team.
• Perform technical code reviews for peers moving code into production.
• Perform and review integration testing before production migrations.
• Provide high level of technical support, and perform root cause analysis for problems experienced within area of functional responsibility.
• Can document technical specs from business communications.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. List knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• 5+ years of ETL experience.
• Experience with core Python programming for data transformation.
• Intermediate-level PySpark skills. Can read, understand and debug existing code and write simple PySpark code from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of SQL fundamentals, understanding of subqueries, can tune queries with execution hints to improve performance.
• IBM DataStage experience preferred.
• Able to write SQL code sufficient for most business requirements for pulling data from sources, applying rules to the data, and stocking target data
• Proven track record in troubleshooting ETL jobs and addressing production issues like performance tuning, reject handling, and ad-hoc reloads.
• Proficient in developing optimization strategies for ETL processes.
• Basic AWS technical support skills. Has ability to log in, find existing jobs and check run status and logs
• Will run and monitor jobs running via Control-M
• Can create clear and concise documentation and communications.
• Can document technical specs from business communications.
• Ability to coordinate and aggressively follow up on incidents and problems, perform diagnosis, and provide resolution to minimize service interruption
• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Effective in cross-functional and global environments to manage multiple tasks and assignments concurrently with effective communication skills.
• A self-starter who can work well independently and on team projects.
• Experienced in analyzing business requirements, defining the granularity, source to target mapping of the data elements, and full technical specification.
• Understands data dependencies and how to schedule jobs in Control-M.
• Experienced working at the command line in various flavors of UNIX, with basic understanding of shell scripting in bash and korn shell.

Education and/or Experience:

Include the education and experience that is necessary to perform the job satisfactorily.

• Bachelors of Science in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of ETL and SQL experience
• 3+ years of python and PySpark experience
• 3+ years of AWS and unix experience
• 2+ years of IBM DataStage experience

Preferred certifications:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (amazon.com)

Certified DataStage Professional

Python and PySpark certifications

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an e-mail to Americas_TTA@baxter.com and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

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