Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

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What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Therapeutics is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.

At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited, and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:

  • We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable
  • We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence
  • We have a sense of urgency and persistence, and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference
  • We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data
  • We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness
  • We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise

Position Summary

Are you a dynamic, passionate, and innovative Data and Infrastructure Engineer aspiring to step into a leadership role? We are transforming the landscape of scientific research through Machine Learning and are eager to find a proactive team player who can help steer our direction as we grow. Join us as we forge new paths, working with our expert data science, engineering, and biology teams while preparing to lead your own team as we expand.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate closely with data science, engineering, and biology teams to design and implement scalable data infrastructure solutions, with an eye on building and managing your team in the future.
  • Develop and maintain advanced data pipelines leveraging AWS services with scalability and user experience in mind.
  • Enhance data storage and retrieval processes, supporting strategic decisions to improve efficiency in growing environments.
  • Lead the creation of user workflows to promote FAIR data best practices, setting standards for future teammates.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve data infrastructure issues, developing frameworks and documentation to support future team members.

Required Skills:

  • Proficiency with AWS Data services and Infrastructure.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CDK and Terraform.
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, with strategic planning for scalability.
  • Understanding of data lake and warehousing concepts and analytics services to lead in architectural decisions.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills with a proven ability to lead initiatives.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a growing team environment and deliver results, with aspirations to advance into team leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working with bioassay and cheminformatics data, enhancing our strategic applications for research.

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering and infrastructure, demonstrating readiness to transition to a team lead role as the organization scales.

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.