Azure Data Engineer

Senior Software Engineer Eurofins IT Solutions, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India With 36 facilities worldwide, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing (BPT) is the largest network of bio/pharmaceutical GMP product testing laboratories providing comprehensive laboratory services for the world's largest pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device companies. BPT is enabled by global engineering teams working on next-generation applications and Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). As a Senior Software Engineer with specialized knowledge in Azure Cosmos DB and MongoDB, you will be a crucial part of our delivery team, ensuring the product features are completely automated and reducing the idea to live time to Business. This is a database-focused engineering role, ideal for someone who excels at designing, managing, and optimizing document-based, distributed databases in large-scale, cloud-native systems.As a technology leader, BPT wants to give you the opportunity not just to accept new challenges and opportunities but to impress with your ingenuity, focus, attention to detail and collaboration with a global team of professionals. This role reports to a Manager. Required Experience and Skills Experience: 5 - 8 years of experience in database engineering, architecture, or backend data systems. Minimum 3 years of deep, hands-on experience with Azure Cosmos DB and MongoDB in production environments. Proven experience with NoSQL data modeling, scaling distributed databases, and partitioning strategies. Specific skills required Document Databases: Azure Cosmos DB (Core SQL API or Mongo API): Strong understanding of partition key design, request units (RU/s), indexing, consistency models, TTL, and multi-region replication Experience with Change Feed, throughput provisioning, autoscale vs manual throughput MongoDB: Expertise in sharding, replica sets, indexing, schema optimization, and aggregation framework Familiarity with MongoDB Atlas and advanced configuration/tuning Performance & Optimization: Ability to perform deep query analysis, index tuning, and performance diagnostics Experience designing for high-concurrency and low-latency requirements Monitoring, alerting, and performance dashboards using tools like Azure Monitor, MongoDB Ops Manager Desirable Experience Experience with data migration, backup/restore strategies, and disaster recovery planning Exposure to multi-region, globally distributed data architectures Familiarity with event-driven and microservices environments Designing data access layers for multi-tenant SaaS applications Understanding of security, encryption, and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) in data management Additional Skills (Preferred) SQL knowledge ability to work with traditional RDBMS (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and understand relational vs document modeling trade-offs Familiarity with backend application stacks (e.g., .NET, Java, Node.js) for integration purposes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates Scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, or Bash for automation Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Associate MongoDB Certified DBA or Developer Experience with data lakes, analytical processing, or data warehousing is a plus Personal Skills: - Excellent analytical and problem solving skills - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various topics related to project and otherwise. - Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities. Required Qualifications: - MCA or Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent. PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations, half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated, documented during the first 30 days of your joining. Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies. In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing. Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997. Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services. The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture and we offer fulfilling careers.