Sr. Data Engineer

Abbott • Madison, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Data Engineer works in Abbott’s Cancer Diagnostics division in Madison, Wisconsin, as part of the Enterprise Data Customer Experience (EDCX) team. The team provides the data foundation for patient and provider experiences across Abbott’s cancer diagnostics portfolio, including the Customer Data Platform (CDP) that supports personalized Braze communications.

The role designs, builds, tests, and optimizes scalable data pipelines and models in Databricks using Spark, Python, and SQL. It also provides technical leadership in design reviews and architecture decisions, owns data quality and pipeline reliability, partners with product managers and business stakeholders to develop documented solutions, and mentors junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or a high school diploma/general education degree and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with Spark on Databricks or Snowflake; Python and SQL development; ETL data pipelines; and data modeling using relational, dimensional, and/or NoSQL databases.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• 5 years of experience in data engineering, building enterprise data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Databricks and Delta Lake, big data file formats such as Parquet and Avro, AWS services such as S3 and SQS, GitLab, REST API development, Tableau, and Jira/Confluence.
• Familiarity with customer data platforms and marketing communication tools such as Braze.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test scalable ETL data pipelines and data models in Databricks using Spark, Python, and SQL to feed the Customer Data Platform and support customer journey orchestration.
• Lead design reviews, evaluate alternatives, and make technical decisions that shape delivery approaches and data architecture.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data and pipeline issues, taking ownership of data quality, performance, security, and reliability with minimal oversight.
• Partner with CX product managers, business stakeholders, and fellow engineers to translate requirements into well-documented data solutions and provide clear plans and status updates.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers while promoting engineering best practices and Agile delivery using Jira and Confluence.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, offering an affordable and convenient path to a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior