Lead Data Engineer

Legend Biotech
Bridgewater, United States of America
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 167K

Job location

Bridgewater, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
API
Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Airflow
Audit Trail
Azure
Google BigQuery
Information Systems
Computer Programming
Continuous Integration
Data Architecture
Data Validation
Information Engineering
Data Governance
Data Infrastructure
Data Integrity
ETL
Data Security
Data Warehousing
Python
Metadata
Performance Tuning
Role-Based Access Control
Cloud Services
Standard Sql
SQL Databases
Systems Integration
Workflow Management Systems
Enterprise Data Management
Data Storage Management
Enterprise Software Applications
Snowflake
Spark
Build Management
Data Lake
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Integration Frameworks
Non-relational Database
Data Management
Azure
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
GXP
Redshift

Job description

  • The Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting data from various sources into our data warehouse.
  • Design and build batch and incremental data pipelines using Azure-native orchestration services to move data into and out of Snowflake.
  • Support push and pull architectures across files, APIs, enterprise applications, and external partners.
  • Develop curated, consumption-ready datasets in Snowflake using standardized, reusable patterns.
  • Implement data quality, and reconciliation controls within pipelines.
  • Follow CI/CD and controlled deployment practices across Dev / QA / Prod environments.
  • Ensure solutions meet GxP expectations for data integrity, traceability, auditability, and change control.
  • Partner with Quality, Validation, and platform teams to support compliance and audit readiness.
  • Data Catalog, Metadata & Governance Enablement:
  • Publish and maintain data assets, schemas, and lineage in the enterprise data catalog.
  • Partner with Data Governance and Business teams to support certified datasets, ownership, and usage transparency.
  • Work with an end-to-end ownership mindset, innovate and drive initiatives through completion.
  • Optimize data storage and retrieval to ensure efficient performance and scalability.
  • Collaborate with data architects, data analysts and data scientists to understand their data needs and ensure that the data infrastructure supports their requirements.
  • Ensure data quality and integrity through data validation and testing.
  • Implement and maintain security protocols to protect sensitive data.
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in data engineering and analytic.
  • Community lead to enable adoption of data and technology strategy.
  • Knowledgeable in evolving trends in Data platforms and Product based implementation.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight.
  • Prior experience working in an Agile/Product based environment.
  • Data engineering, pipelines, AI/ML development, requirements gathering with Business Partners.
  • Technical delivery execution (build, test, deploy).
  • Technical estimates and feasibility.
  • Resource planning within Data & AI team.
  • Qualify/Validate system and pipelines.
  • FUT/SIT completion.
  • Technical Project Management.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (Master's preferred).
  • 7-10 years of hands-on data engineering experience.
  • Total 15+ years of IT experience
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Azure orchestration/integration services.
  • Strong experience working with Snowflake as a data lake/warehouse.
  • Proven experience with ETL/ELT and push/pull integration patterns.
  • Experience operating in regulated or validated (GxP) environments.
  • Strong SQL and data engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience with enterprise data platforms and multi-domain data architectures.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, role-based access control, and secure data sharing.
  • Experience in Data Catalog tools and implementation.
  • Experience integrating ERP, manufacturing, or regulated systems.
  • Strong programming skills (Python, SQL; Java/Scala a plus)
  • Experience with data warehousing and lakehouse architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools and orchestration frameworks.
  • Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, normalization, and performance tuning.
  • Cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
  • Data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark).
  • Orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).
  • Version control and CI/CD practices.

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Benefits & conditions

The base pay range below is what Legend Biotech USA Inc. reasonably expects to offer at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location. The company reserves the right to modify this range as needed and in accordance with applicable laws.

Other Types of Pay: Performance-based bonus and/or equity is available to employees in eligible roles.

Benefits and Paid Time Off: Medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one. We offer eight (8) weeks of paid parental leave after just three (3) months of employment, and a paid time off policy that includes vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and eleven (11) company holidays. Additional voluntary benefits include flexible spending and health savings accounts, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, legal assistance, and supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance. We also provide voluntary commuter benefits, family planning and care resources, well-being initiatives, and peer-to-peer recognition programs; demonstrating our ongoing commitment to building a culture where our people feel empowered, supported, and inspired to do their best work.

Pay Range (Base Pay):

$127,313 - $167,099 USD

Please note: These benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. Contractors are not eligible for benefits through Legend Biotech.

About the company

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating, and one day curing, life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, we are developing advanced cell therapies across a diverse array of technology platforms, including autologous and allogenic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell, T-cell receptor (TCR-T), and natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy. From our three R&D sites around the world, we apply these innovative technologies to pursue the discovery of safe, efficacious and cutting-edge therapeutics for patients worldwide. Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Janssen, one of the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, to jointly develop and commercialize ciltacabtagene autolecuel (cilta-cel). Our strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of both companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma., Legend Biotech was founded as an early-stage cell therapy company in 2014. The company was the brainchild of visionary scientists who recognized that antibody-based therapeutics could potentially treat disease and possessed the backgrounds in immunology and gene editing to take the leap. For two years, Legend Biotech, then known as the "Legend Project," operated in a room the size of a freight elevator, with the goal of creating a cell therapy for multiple myeloma, a hematological cancer that often relapses and can become refractory. The team produced nanobodies for single-domain antibody drugs and ultimately extended the half-life of the nanobodies with proprietary technologies. In 2015, Legend's scientists focused on research for chimeric antigen-receptor T-cells (CAR-T) targeting the BCMA protein, making the biotech one of the first companies in the world to engineer CAR-T cells for the BCMA protein. In 2016, investigator-initiated trials began in China. In 2017, data from the trials were presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which led to a partnership with biopharmaceutical company Janssen Biotech, Inc. to co-develop the anti-BCMA CAR-T, ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel). Applications seeking approval of cilta-cel for the treatment of patients with RRMM are currently under regulatory review by several health authorities around the world. CARVYKTI (ciltacabtagene autoleucel) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February 2022 and received conditional marketing approval from the European Medicines Agency in May 2022. Today Legend Biotech is a global, commercial-stage company driven by a passion for patients. We continue to build our pipeline of cell therapy platforms, which includes CAR-T, CAR-NK, CAR-γδ T and non-gene-editing CAR technologies. Our goal is to bring hope and opportunity to patients and their families by continuing to explore unique technologies.

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