Director, Data Engineering

🔥 23 hours ago

🌐 United Kingdom, Poland, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇷🇴 Romania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Parexel

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Contribute to the strategy, design, and roadmap for lakehouse architecture based on medallion principles • Align reporting and analytics architecture with operational, clinical, financial, and safety needs • Direct engineering activities across data ingestion, transformation, storage, and optimization within the Enterprise Data Lake • Oversee performance, quality, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of data in the lake environment • Ensure scalable engineering pipelines across data domains and alignment with governance requirements • Serve as a subject matter expert in data delivery • Align data products and services with organizational priorities • Direct cross-functional prioritization and delivery processes • Champion transparency and communication of data technology roadmaps • Build, mentor, and direct global data engineering teams • Champion capability development in cloud engineering, Databricks, CI/CD, SQL, and Python • Promote a culture of innovation, operational rigor, and customer-focused delivery • Enable Parexel's real-world data movement within the Enterprise Data Lake • Deliver standardized operational data products across clinical, safety, and corporate domains • Partner with Data and Technology teams, the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence, and business stakeholders to ensure trusted, high-quality, well-governed data

🎯 Requirements

• Strong advanced-level IT experience developing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale enterprise integration services and platforms across multiple hardware and software environments • Substantial expertise in emerging computing architectures • Exposure to Real World Data in the clinical/medical space • Experience with GxP regulations in a life sciences environment advantageous • Deep experience leading teams in data delivery management and execution, including major projects in data management, data integration, and analytics • Strong people and team management experience • Experience developing and implementing applications in new computing architecture environments using innovative technologies • Experience managing technical personnel across multiple project lifecycle phases with cross-functional experience • Experience managing financial resources across multiple projects • Experience developing efficient and effective solutions to complex business challenges • Extensive experience implementing and supporting enterprise data initiatives on cloud platforms • Demonstrated expertise in data and cloud platforms, particularly Azure Databricks • Significant experience with medallion architecture-based data lake implementations • Advanced proficiency in SQL querying and query tuning (mandatory) • Proficiency in modern data management and data-sharing tools, programming languages, relational databases, data transformation, and development frameworks • Especially proficient in Python • Deep understanding of architectural best practices, application design, and estimation processes • Thorough knowledge of application architectures and enterprise application ecosystems • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (required) • Must be based in the UK, Poland, or Romania

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Bonus • Car allowance • Holiday • Structured career pathway • Encouragement to develop within the role • Other leading benefits expected from a top company in the CRO industry • Fully home-based and remote working option within the eligible location