Director, AI Platforms – Data & Technology

🕒 July 30

🌐 Poland, Romania – Remote

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇷🇴 Romania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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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

• Define and evolve the AI platform strategy in alignment with Parexel's enterprise AI direction • Own architectural decisions for AI-first platforms • Lead the engineering team responsible for the shared technical foundation powering AI delivery across Parexel • Own and shape the AI-specific platform stack, including environment management, infrastructure, and orchestration • Ensure platforms are reliable, scalable, observable, and consumable by internal product teams, sponsor-funded delivery pods, and citizen developers • Establish service-level expectations, capacity planning, and a consumption model supporting internal squads, sponsor pods, and light-track delivery • Manage day-to-day operational relationships with AI-specific vendors including Anthropic and Palantir • Track vendor performance, contracts, and renewals; serve as the first escalation point for vendor-specific platform issues • Partner with Engineering to ensure platform capabilities meet product-delivery needs • Partner with Quality and Compliance on validation-tooling pipelines and audit readiness • Lead, recruit, and develop a small team of platform engineers • Maintain a technically hands-on working-leader culture • Balance internal customer demands, vendor partnerships, architectural decisions, and regulated-environment requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required • Master's degree in a technical discipline preferred • Strong demonstrable experience in Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, or AI/ML infrastructure roles already operating at Director level • Direct advanced level experience operating AI platforms in production, including GenAI runtimes, vector databases, agent orchestration, MLOps tooling, and evaluation infrastructure • Familiarity with at least one of: Palantir Foundry, enterprise GenAI platforms, or custom assistant infrastructure such as Copilot Studio or Anthropic-based platforms • Strong technical depth in cloud-based platform engineering, AWS or Azure • Ability to make architectural trade-offs and translate them into clear engineering direction • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with engineering, vendor, and business stakeholders • Service-oriented mindset and ability to partner effectively with internal platform-service consumers • Comfort working in a regulated environment, with familiarity in life sciences or another GxP-adjacent industry • Vendor management experience, including contract terms, performance management, and commercial negotiation support • Experience with AI/ML infrastructure preferred • Experience navigating shared infrastructure organizations a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Bonus • Car allowance • Holiday • Other leading benefits expected with a top company in the CRO Industry • Structured career pathway • Encouragement to develop within the role • Awareness and understanding of the industry