Senior Principal or Principal Systems Engineer

BoehringerPRD•Brampton, ON

About The Position

As a Senior Principal or Principal Systems Engineer within IT RDM Computational Biology, you will play a pivotal role supporting our colleagues across Computational Innovation (CI). You will combine deep technical expertise with a strong customer centric mindset to ensure robust, scalable, and modern compute environments and workflows that accelerate scientific discovery. You will serve as a technical expert for Linux-based research systems, workflow orchestration, data science platforms, CI/CD processes, and cloud integrated environments. Your work directly impacts Boehringer Ingelheim's R&D pipeline by empowering scientists with reliable, performant, and secure computational capabilities. As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies´ success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim´s high regard for our employees.

Requirements

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer: Associate degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field with minimum 11 years experience; or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, or MIS, or related field with a minimum 9 years of experience; or a Master in Computer Science, MIS, or related experience with minimum of 7 years of experience; or relevant Business or IT experience of minimum of 11 years.
Principal Systems Engineer: Associate degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field with 7 years experience; or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field with 5 years of experience; or a Master in Computer Science, MIS, or related field with a minimum of 3 years of experience; or relevant Business or IT experience of a minimum of 7 years.
Proven experience in hands-on user support, ideally within scientific or data driven environments
Advanced Linux administration skills in a networked environment, e.g. HPC
Experience working with R and Python-based notebook environments (e.g. SageMaker, Databricks, Jupyter).
Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g. OpenShift,Jenkins).
Familiarity with AWS core services (S3, EC2 at minimum).
Strong background in application development and operations (DevOps mindset preferred).
Demonstrated experience managing complete system life cycles.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
Must be 18 years of age or older.

Nice To Haves

Practical experience with Nextflow is an asset.

Responsibilities

Provide high-quality user and system support to Computational Innovation colleagues, acting as a trusted technical partner.
Support R/Python scientific tooling, libraries, and execution environments.
Support troubleshooting automation and computational workflows (e.g., Nextflow).
Support AWS services like S3, EC2, SageMaker (and/or Datbricks).
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across infrastructure, applications, and workflows.
Implement and maintain Jenkins pipelines for research applications and automations.
Operate, maintain, and continuously improve research IT systems throughout their full system life cycle (design → deployment → maintenance → retirement).
Collaborate with global IT, platform teams, and scientists to scale cloud enabled compute environments.