(Senior) Assistant Manager (Data & Software Engineer), Dept of Medicine (Contract)

Job Description:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate data requirements from stakeholders e.g. clinicians, various healthcare practitioners and data scientists into technical solutions.
• Translate and document users, data and ETL workflows requirements into users requirements and data definitions specifications.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL workflows starting from data collection process from source systems to data cleansing and data merging leading to the harmonisation of data.
• Ensure data quality, consistency and reliability.
• Implement data models and optimise data processing performance.
• Construct, test and update useful data products based on data needs of end users.
• Support data infrastructure through automation, not manual monitoring.
• Research, propose and develop new technologies and processes to improve agency date infrastructure.
• Align with internal Corporate Data Governance standards to implement and enforce data security best practices, including access control, encryption, and data masking, to safeguard sensitive data.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience with analytic tools, e.g. Advanced MS Excel skills, Python, Spark SQL, DataBricks and Tableau.
• At lease 3 years of relevant work experience in data and/or software engineering.
• Familiar with data warehouse concept and have production experience.
• Familiar with at least 1 distributed computing engine (e.g. Hive, Spark) and Docker.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with the healthcare sector is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to collaborate across teams and functions.