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Parexel

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering team responsible for the shared technical foundation that powers AI delivery across Parexel. • Own the AI-specific platform stack — including environment management, infrastructure, and orchestration. • Ensure these platforms are reliable, scalable, and consumable by internal product teams, sponsor-funded delivery pods, and citizen developers. • Partner closely with Engineering, AI Solution Direction, Quality, and the centralized Infrastructure organization to deliver platform services that accelerate AI product development without creating fragmentation. • Make architectural decisions, partner with vendors, and balance the demands of multiple internal customers. • Own and shape AI infrastructure at enterprise scale. • Define and evolve the AI platform strategy in alignment with Parexel's enterprise AI direction. • Ensure platform reliability, performance, and observability for AI workloads in production. • Manage day-to-day operational relationships with AI-specific vendors.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong technical depth in cloud-based platform engineering (AWS or Azure), with experience in AI/ML infrastructure preferred. • Ability to make architectural trade-offs and translate them into clear engineering direction. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly with engineering, vendor, and business stakeholders. • Service-oriented mindset; able to partner effectively with internal consumers of platform services. • Comfortable in a regulated environment with familiarity in life sciences or another GxP-adjacent industry. • Strong demonstrable experience in Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, or AI/ML infrastructure roles already operating at Director level is essential. • Direct advanced level experience operating AI platforms in production (GenAI runtimes, vector databases, agent orchestration, MLOps tooling, evaluation infrastructure) is essential. • Familiarity with at least one of: Palantir Foundry, enterprise GenAI platforms, custom assistant infrastructure (e.g., Copilot Studio, Anthropic-based platforms). • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) preferred; experience navigating shared infrastructure organizations a plus. • Vendor management experience including contract terms, performance management, and commercial negotiation support.

🏖️ Benefits

• competitive base salary • bonus • car allowance • holiday • other leading benefits