Senior Data Engineer @ Veeva Systems — Vaga Remota

What You'll Do

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

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

Base pay: $115,000 - $175,000
The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.