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Director of Data Engineering

Remote

About Us 

Valo Health is a technology company applying human and machine intelligence to accelerate the creation of life-changing medical treatments. At the core of this vision is Valo’s computational platform: an end-to-end, integrated drug discovery and development engine that is being built from the ground up. 

Valo hires the best and gives them first-class training and support. We approach our work fearlessly, learn quickly, improve constantly, and celebrate our wins. A centerpiece of our culture is our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience. Diversity fuels the Valo experience and drives us every day. We strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.  

About The Role 

Valo is seeking an experienced Director of Data Engineering to lead our efforts for our data engineering platform. You will manage and grow a team of data engineers to maintain and extend our data platform, providing critical support to multi-functional teams across Valo. Your work will support both our external partnership and internal drug programs. In addition, you will be working closely with our Machine Learning, Data Science, Medicinal Chemistry, and Translational Biology teams to accelerate the process of discovering new drug candidates.  

What You’ll Do… 

  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 2-4 data engineers located both in our Boston offices and remotely. 
  • As a key leader in our organization, drive the evolution of Valo’s data platform, ensuring it is robust, scalable and meets the high-performance demands of our data scientists, all while upholding data governance standards. 
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration across our data science, machine learning, lab informatics, translational biology and medicinal chemistry teams to advance our computational infrastructure for our drug discovery and development mission. 
  • Foster processes and technology to boost operational scalability, enabling our teams to rapidly expand capacity without expanding headcount. 
  • Simplify how data scientists access, transform, and use their data by promoting consistent data usage patterns, including version management, shared ontologies & data dictionaries   
  • Simplify how data engineers build, maintain, and extend their data pipelines, advising colleagues on data transformations and database design, and providing critical feedback and encouraging best practices within the data engineering team  

What You Bring... 

  • 10+ years of experience in software / data engineering and leadership.
  • 2+ years of management experience managing cross-functional projects. 
  • Experience in creating an effective and inclusive team culture. 
  • Experience building data science platforms: data and feature engineering pipelines, model life-cycle support, data governance. 
  • 3+ yrs experience in a professional role gathering requirements and understanding customers/data users goals, including demonstrated experience scoping projects, determining timelines and milestones, delivering end-to-end projects  
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with and influence business and technical teams  
  • Experience with data science and workflow orchestration platforms such as Domino, Kubeflow, Prefect, Ray, Spark, and implementing CI/CD practices  
  • Experience with cloud data storage and management solutions, such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery. 
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience 

You May Also Bring... 

  • A background in drug development or another healthcare or biotechnology field 

More on Valo 

Valo Health, LLC (“Valo”) is a technology company built to transform the drug discovery and development process using human-centric data and artificial intelligence-driven computation. As a digitally native company, Valo aims to fully integrate human-centric data across the entire drug development life cycle into a single unified architecture, thereby accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing drugs while simultaneously reducing costs, time, and failure rates. The company’s Opal Computational Platform™ is an integrated set of capabilities designed to transform data into valuable insights that may accelerate discoveries and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of programs across cardiovascular metabolic renal, oncology, and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded by Flagship Pioneering and headquartered in Lexington, MA, Valo also has offices in New York, NY. To learn more, visit www.valohealth.com. 

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