Data Engineer

Data Engineer II - Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Data Engineer II - Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Job Summary

The Data Engineer II will lead the development and delivery software for retrieving, parsing, and processing structured and unstructured data to solve specific business problems. This role is responsible for the end-to-end implementation and maintenance of data pipelines, ensuring they integrate smoothly with existing systems and workflows. Analyzing and visualizing data performance metrics will be a key part of the job, guiding iterative improvements and troubleshooting issues. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential to integrate data-based solutions into production environments and refine workflows. The Engineer II will also contribute to research and development efforts to advance the company’s data engineering capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize data pipelines to address specific business needs.
• Conduct data analysis and visualize pipeline performance to improve operational efficiency and scalability to ensure they support high volume and high velocity data streams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy data pipelines and machine learning capabilities into production.
• Ensure adherence to best practices in data engineering.
• Maintain documentation for data stores and data pipelines.
• Stay updated with the latest developments in data engineering technologies and best practices.

Qualification Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Three (3) – Four (4) years of data engineering experience
• Experience creating ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and Azure-native services.
• Experience with maintaining data models.
• Experience designing application programming interfaces or relational database managements systems.
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python and SQL.
• Proficiency with distributed version control systems such as Git.
• Ability to process data effectively.
• Ability to own tasks and produce results for the business.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts and results.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience with CI/CD practices
• Proficiency with PySpark.
• Knowledge of data masking or data governance in Databricks.
• Knowledge of AI functions in Databricks.
• Knowledge of clinical trial data.

Key Details:

• This role will work in the Hyderabad office two to three days a week starting in September 2026.
• This role will work second shift, meaning Monday through Friday from 1 pm to 11 pm IST.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Experience Level

Mid Level