Data Engineer

In this role, you will focus on improving existing data pipelines, ensuring high data quality, and enabling efficient, reproducible workflows that support research and data-driven decision-making. Moreover, you provide technical support for conducting federated studies. 

The main tasks are

• Design, develop, and maintain ETL pipelines to transform healthcare data into the OMOP Common Data Model.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity across multiple data sources.
• Clean, preprocess, and harmonize large-scale healthcare datasets.
• Optimize and automate data workflows for scalability and performance.
• Maintain and improve existing data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with data analysts, clinicians, researchers, and IT specialists.
• Implement best practices for reproducibility, versioning, and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with data protection, security, and ethical requirements.
• Support integration of new data sources, including registries and biobank/genetic data where applicable.

Higher education (preferably Master's degree) in computer science, data engineering, software engineering, information systems, or a related field.

• Experience working with healthcare data and/or OMOP CDM (or willingness to learn).
• Strong experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/data pipelines.
• Experience with analytical programming languages such as R (preferred) or similar.
• Familiarity with data workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Luigi, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience in developing R packages and study packages for federated studies is a plus.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Attention to detail and commitment to data quality.
• Ability to work independently and manage tasks effectively.
• Good collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Sense of responsibility and reliability.
• Good teamwork and collaboration skills.

• CV
• Motivation letter
• Salary request in gross

Available to start work as soon as possible!

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• Interesting and meaningful work in the largest and fastest-growing institute of the University of Tartu.
• Excellent working environment in the Delta academic building of the University of Tartu.
• Various opportunities for development and self-improvement.
• Friendly and supportive team.
• Basic vacation of 35 days per year and health promotion support.
• Opportunities for authorship and scientific output.
• Participation in international research networks.
• We pay sickness benefit at 100% for days 2–8 of the sick leave period.

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