Senior Data Engineer
At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.
Senior Data Engineer
Job Summary: Responsible for developing, maintaining, and evaluating big data solutions across functional / process content areas. Uses data management best practices and innovative, fit-for-purpose technologies to build stable, flexible, high-performing data & analytics products that help reduce the lead time from data collection to insight generation. Assembles large, complex data sets (e.g. text, time series, imagery) into a useful
format for analysis using fit-for-purpose database technologies and designs, builds and orchestrates ETL pipelines.
Key responsabilities and Skills:
- Communicating Between Technical and Non-Technical Colleagues
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics
- Be an advocate for the team externally, and can manage differing perspectives
- Data Analysis and Synthesis
- Undertake data profiling and source system analysis
- Present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data
- Data Development Process
- Design, build and test data products that are complex or large scale
- Build teams to complete data integration services
- Data Innovation
- Understand the impact on the organization of emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques and data usage
- Data Integration Design
- Select and implement the appropriate technologies to deliver resilient, scalable and future-proofed data solutions and integration pipelines
- Data Modeling
- Produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas
- Explain which models to use for which purpose
- Understand industry-recognized data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them
- Compare and align different data models
- Metadata Management
- Design an appropriate metadata repository and present changes to existing metadata repositories
- Understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata
- Provide oversight and advice to more inexperienced members of the team
- Problem Resolution
- Respond to problems in databases, data processes, data products and services as they occur
- Initiate actions, monitor services and identify trends to resolve problems
- Determine the appropriate remedy and assist with its implementation, and with preventative measures
- Programming and Build
- Use agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document moderate-to-complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations
- Collaborate with others to review specifications where appropriate
Technical Understanding
•Understand the core technical concepts related to the role, and apply them with guidance Testing
•Review requirements and specifications, and define test conditions
•Identify issues and risks associated with work
•Analyze and report test activities and results
•Use agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document moderate-to-complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations
•Collaborate with others to review specifications where appropriate •Understand the core technical concepts related to the role, and apply them with guidance
Testing
•Review requirements and specifications, and define test conditions
•Identify issues and risks associated with work
•Analyze and report test activities and results
This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.
Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.
Location:
Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona
Division:
Enabling Functions
Reference Code:
891945
Source: the employer's careers page. Last checked 2026-10-15. Posted 2026-10-15.