Director, AI Platforms – Data & Technology

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🌐 Romania, Poland – Remote

🇷🇴 Romania – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 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 • Ensure platform reliability, performance, and observability for AI workloads in production • 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 • Work closely with Engineering to ensure platform capabilities meet product delivery needs • Partner with Quality and Compliance on validation tooling pipelines and audit readiness • Lead a small, high-trust team of platform engineers; recruit and develop senior IC and engineering talent • Maintain a technically hands-on working-leader culture while developing the team

🎯 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 • Comfort working 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 is a plus • Vendor management experience including contract terms, performance management, and commercial negotiation support • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required

🏖️ 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 • Industry awareness and understanding