Job Summary

Provide Level 3 production support for Medidata clinical data management systems like Rave EDC, Coder+, Designer, Rave Safety Gateway, and TSDV, addressing complex configuration, functional, and data-related issues.

Responsibilities

- Impact and Risk Assessment for Medidata Releases and Configuration Changes.

- Outage Management. Support and manage planned and unplanned outages, including communication, troubleshooting, and service restoration.

- Release and Change Management. Manage all aspects of release and change activities, including planning, documentation updates, deployment, and postimplementation review.

- L3 Incident Management and Troubleshooting.

Provide

Level3 support for complex incidents, perform advanced troubleshooting, and timely resolution.

- Interface Team Coordination. Collaborate with interface/integration teams to provide required technical details, troubleshooting assistance, and impact analysis.

- Problem Management. Conduct problem investigations, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and support prevention of recurring issues.

- Audit Support. Provide required evidence, documentation, and support during internal and external audits.

- Qualification Documentation Updates. Update and maintain operational phase qualification documents, including TS, TRA, CS, FRS, Admin Guides, and related artifacts.

- Review of Data Integrity, Backup, and Disaster Recovery (DR). Perform periodic reviews of data integrity controls, backup processes, and DR readiness for compliance and operational continuity.

- Act as the final escalation point for high-impact or recurring issues from L1/L2 support teams. Perform deep root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent fixes or preventive controls.

- Support approved configuration changes and minor enhancements in line with change management processes.

- Manage and resolve incidents, problems, and change requests within defined SLAs.



Coordinate with internal IT teams, vendors, and platform providers for issue resolution and defect remediation.

- Support production deployments across DEV, TEST, and PROD environments following validated procedures.

- Perform impact assessments for platform releases, patches, and hotfixes affecting live studies.

- Ensure all changes and configurations comply with FDA, ICH, GCP, and GxP requirements.

- Support validation activities, audit readiness, inspection support, and periodic access reviews.

- Ensure data integrity, audit trail compliance, and adherence to security and blinding controls.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, configuration notes, SOPs, work instructions, and knowledge base articles.

- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to L1/L2 support teams.

- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system stability and support efficiency.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience providing L3 support for Medidata clinical systems in production, specifically Medidata Rave EDC, Coder+, Designer, Rave Safety Gateway, and TSDV.

- Solid understanding of clinical trial data flows, regulated environments, and support models.

- Proven experience in incident, problem, and change management.

- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

- Experience working in AMS / Managed Services engagements for global pharmaceutical or biotech clients.

- Exposure to clinical data integrations, reporting, and reconciliation.

- Experience supporting UAT defect triage, validation, and audit inspections.

- Knowledge of ITIL-based support processes.

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