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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Veeva Systems
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Directed Acyclic Graph (Directed Graphs), Data Dictionary, Information Engineering, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, AWS Fargate, Veeva, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1aec000d0acac1df

## About the Role

* 5+ years building data models and pipelines
 * 2+ years production Airflow experience
 * 2+ years Spark at scale: hands-on experience with multi-TB datasets; AWS Glue experience preferred
 * Strong python and SQL
 * AWS fluency in S3, ECS/Fargate, Glue, IAM, Secrets Manager
 * Clear communicator who can teach: onboarding analytics team to the codebase and developing team Airflow capability is a core part of this job, not a side responsibility, * Experience working with privacy-sensitive or governed data
 * Databricks experience - we're actively migrating Glue workloads there
 * Proficiency with Claude Code
 * Exposure to data science workflows and ML pipeline tooling
 * Background in life sciences or healthcare
 * Experience with Open Meta data or similar data catalog and data dictionary tooling

## Description

The NitroAI team is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain the data engineering infrastructure that powers our analytics delivery. You'll work alongside data scientists and analytics teams to productionize manual solutions, build governed datapipelines, and deliver data to customers at scale. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role in a startup-like environment within Veeva - with immediate influence over how NitroAI delivers data across a growing multi-tenant platform., * Own the Airflow codebase end-to-end (MWAA, ~100 DAGs currently): build reusable templates, scale patterns, enforce standards, improve testing infrastructure

 * Serve as delivery teams' go-to on pipeline architecture and troubleshooting
 * Own data onboarding when we connect to a new source including connection setup, schema discovery, initial pipeline design
 * Operate and extend large-scale Spark pipelines on AWS Glue, including multi-TB joins and compaction jobs, and support migration of those workloads to Databricks as we move platforms
 * Drive data model improvements around our commercial pharma data (patient claims, KOL and HCP data, CRM activity) with a focus on structure, lineage, and how it flows through the platform
 * Contribute to and maintain our internal Python package used across the data team


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