Staff Data Engineer

Location: Uppsala, Sweden

Category: Research & Development

Employment Type: Full time

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information: 

Olink, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is dedicated to advancing the understanding of human disease through proteomics. Olink panels provide innovative, high-quality solutions for human protein biomarker discovery, enabling researchers to measure thousands of proteins simultaneously from just a few microliters of blood. Using highly specific and thoroughly validated assays with a wide dynamic range, Olink’s technology overcomes traditional limitations in protein analysis and supports deeper insights into human biology and disease.

Job description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Data Engineer. In this role, you will provide technical leadership and architectural guidance while developing innovative solutions that enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Working in a supportive, multi-functional environment, you will design and implement sophisticated solutions for our RnD users and processes. You will support the growth of other engineers, drive adoption of best practices, and help shape the technical direction of critical projects. This position offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies while contributing to groundbreaking scientific discoveries. The role is based in our Uppsala office.

A Day in the Life:

• Build and operate on PSX analytical data processing platform in AWS
• Design and build a robust foundation for data pipelines
• Take ownership for the platform architecture, infrastructure and longevity
• Be part of our solution design group and collaborate with other dev leads (Software & AI Data Science) to secure the best designs and architecture and ensure our tooling eco system is future proof
• Support less senior team members, foster best practices and set high standards.
• Be opportunistiskt, identify and suggest solutions for potential challenges such as performance, scalability, cost and security
• Represent the team in technical and complex cross functional matters

Requirements:

• Master of Science in Molecular Biotechnology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
• Several years of working experience, Life Science experience is a plus.
• Strong experience building analytical data & analytics platforms in cloud environments (AWS knowledge or willingness to learn AWS is required)
• Strong verbal and presentational skills
• Strong Python or C# programming skills
• Knowledgeable in infrastructure-as-code (CDK/Terraform).
• Experience working with Iceberg, versioning etc.
• A product-oriented mindset, focused on building durable, scalable solutions rather than one-off pipelines.
• Experience in Ops/Observability, i.e building monitoring solutions.

Why Join Us? 

At Olink, Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will be part of a nurturing team that values integrity, innovation, and involvement. We offer an encouraging environment where your diverse experiences and perspectives are appreciated, enabling you to thrive and excel in your career.

The final date for submitting applications is on the 20th of October. The role could be filled prior to this deadline.