Join Alcon as a Data Engineer

Are you passionate about data engineering and analytics? Alcon is looking for talented individuals to design, develop, and operationalize a reusable and modular data analytics platform. This platform will be built upon Alcon’s enterprise IT architecture, enabling efficient, consistent, and automated value generation from data. As a Data Engineer, you will partner with data architects to develop technical architectures for data and analytic products.

Key Responsibilities

As a Data Engineer at Alcon, you will:

• Advise, consult, mentor, and coach other data and analytics professionals on data standards and best practices for data governance, data management, and data quality assurance for Digital Health.
• Participate in Backlog grooming, Spring Planning, and effort estimation.
• Perform data modeling, data analysis, and provide insights using various tools.
• Evaluate, implement, and deploy emerging tools and processes for data engineering and analytics to improve productivity.
• Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, or a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, including developing ETL/ELT data pipelines, data platforms/products, or data warehouses.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience in developing data-intensive solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP for analytics workloads.
• 1+ years of experience in designing both ETL/ELT for batch processing and data streaming architectures for real-time or near real-time data ingestion and processing.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with two or more database technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and data warehouses (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake), as well as cloud-based data engineering technologies (e.g., Kafka, PubSub, Apache Airflow, Glue).
• 2+ years of experience in programming in Python, Scala, or Java.

Preferred Qualifications

We also value candidates with the following preferred qualifications:

• Experience in data privacy and security-related regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, FDA cybersecurity for medical devices) and related security frameworks (e.g., ISO, NIST, HITRUST, SOC II).
• Experience in various interoperability data standards in healthcare (e.g., HL7, FHIR, c-CDA, DICOM).
• Experience in EMR and PACS integration.

Why Join Alcon?

At Alcon, you will thrive in a dynamic, cross-functional team environment that values diverse perspectives and fosters a collaborative work culture. We are committed to creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and engineering excellence. Join us and be part of a team that approaches challenges with a positive, can-do attitude and a passion for problem-solving.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or any other reason.

Attention Current Alcon Employees and Contingent Workers

If you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please use the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site:

Company name: Alcon

Job title: Data Engineer