Python Developer, Strategic Intelligence
Evaluate Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
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Norstella is a group of prominent pharmaceutical solutions providers Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group, Citeline that help clients navigate complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle, from pipeline to patient. For more information, please visit Norstella.com.
Evaluate is a global company providing outstanding market intelligence services for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Financial and Consulting sectors, through the Evaluate Pharma, Evaluate Medtech, Evaluate Omnium and Evaluate Vantage online brands. Our international clients in Pharma and Biotech, Medtech, Banking and Consultancy regard Evaluate Pharma as the industry’s gold standard for timely and accurate analysis of reported drug sales, consensus sales forecasts, Ramp;D pipeline, markets and comprehensive company financials.
THE TEAM
In this role as a Python Developer, Strategic Intelligence, you will be part of the expanding data enablement team, which has grown considerably since being established over three years ago. You will report into the Manager, Strategic Intelligence. The team works directly with clients on a project basis, providing strategic support based on a foundation of Evaluate data. We work with a range of client organisations globally from major global pharma and biotechs, to financial services organisations and industry associations.
SCOPE OF THE ROLE
Our clients are generally senior-level decision makers in need of support to ensure they are properly informed to make those decisions, all the way up to C-level executives. As a Python Developer, Strategic Intelligence, you will be in a key position working with teams from around the world, primarily the Strategic Intelligence, Data Science and Data Engineering groups. In this role, you will be responsible for managing data feeds implementation, writing, and maintaining the code to build data solutions specific to customer needs. The creation and maintenance of QA frameworks will be a key component of this role.
In this role as a Python Developer, Strategic Intelligence, you will:
- Plan and develop effort estimations;
- Write effective, scalable code;
- Test and debug code releases;
- Improve functionality of existing code;
- Conduct code reviews with the wider team;
- Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions;
- Introduce changes to data feed platform with focus on minimising impacts to on-going services, mitigating risk;
- Engage with Data Engineering and Data Science to develop the overall data feed product.
Requirements
WHAT IT TAKES
- Hands-on Python experience;
- Deep experience working with the Pandas Python package to manipulate and transform messy data;
- Experience with object-oriented programming;
- Knowledge of Git Flow and CI/CD best practices;
- Experience with data testing processes and packages;
- Experience with unit tests and integration tests;
- Experience requesting data from APIs.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with AWS;
- Experience with Airflow;
- Experience with Snowflake;
- Experience with data testing processes and packages;
- Experience in pharmaceutical or biomedical subject areas.
Benefits
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- 25 days holidays (increasing to 30 over 9 years) + 8 bank holidays;
- Value You day - one additional wellbeing day on top of your holiday allowance;
- Pension plan - company contribution of 6.7% rising to 10% after 12 months service;
- Life Assurance 4 x salary;
- Private Medical Insurance*;
- Corporate Gym Membership/Discount*;
- Flexible working and flexitime policies;
- Season Ticket Loan*;
- Cycle to Work Scheme*;
- Maternity, Paternity amp; Adoption leave including enhanced leave for 2+ years’ service;
- Shared parental leave.
(*following successful completion of probation period)
Evaluate is an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success.
We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behaviour and our business requirements. Evaluate operates a zero-tolerance