Position Summary

Lead a 20–40 member data engineering team supporting global pharma R&D;, Commercial, and Manufacturing use-cases. Own data strategy execution, modernize data platform development, and delivery excellence for a Global Capability Center (GCC). Drive scalable data products, governance, and analytics solutions.

Job Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

Own Data Engineering roadmap for enterprise data transformation; align with global data & digital strategy.
Lead multi-squad engineering teams (Data Engineering, MLOps, Reporting).
Establish standards for ingestion, transformation, quality, cataloging and lineage.
Partner with global product owners, business stakeholders, and platform leads across R&D;, HEOR, Commercial, Supply Chain.

Technical Delivery

Architect and scale cloud-native data platforms
Oversee ingestion pipelines across structured (clinical, commercial, manufacturing) and unstructured data (medical notes, literature, NLP outputs).
Ensure high-performance ELT/ETL, orchestration, CI/CD, and MLOps practices.
Manage Lakehouse / Warehouses (Databricks,



Snowflake, Dataiku).
Implement robust data quality KPIs, reconciliation frameworks

Domain Expectations

Deep understanding of pharma data:
Commercial data (IMS/IQVIA, specialty pharmacy feeds)
Clinical trial data (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM)
RWE/claims/EHR, patient support program data
Manufacturing & QC datasets
Experience delivering data foundations for regulatory submissions, pharmacovigilance, digital biomarkers, omnichannel analytics.
GCC Focus

Run onsite–offshore governance, delivery dashboards, and stakeholder reporting.
Drive talent development, vendor management, and operating-model improvements.
Set up reusable accelerators, playbooks, and delivery frameworks tailored for GCC scale.
Engage with GCC stakeholders as well as global stakeholders delivering customer delight

Education

BE/B.Tech

Master of Computer Application

Work Experience

12–15 years in Data Engineering, with 5+ years in

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