Director, Data Engineering (RWD)
Parexel
IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 12+ years of IT experience required
- 8+ years of leading data delivery teams required
- At least 6 years of management experience required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field required
- Advanced SQL querying and query tuning is mandatory
- Azure Databricks expertise is a core requirement
Role overview
As Director of Data Engineering (RWD) at Parexel, you'll be a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for enabling real-world data movement within the Enterprise Data Lake and delivering standardized operational data products across clinical, safety, and corporate domains. You'll partner with Data and Technology teams, the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence, and business stakeholders to ensure trusted, high-quality, well-governed data with consistent definitions and reliable movement across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the strategy, design, and roadmap for the lakehouse architecture based on medallion principles that supports reporting and analytics aligned to 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 that align with governance requirements
- Serve as a subject matter expert in data delivery, aligning data products and services with organizational priorities
- Direct cross-functional prioritization and delivery processes to ensure cohesive, timely outcomes
- Champion transparency and communication of data technology roadmaps across the organization
- Build, mentor, and direct global data engineering teams to deliver excellence
- Champion capability development in cloud engineering, Databricks, CI/CD, SQL, and Python
- Promote a culture of innovation, operational rigor, and customer-focused delivery
Requirements
- 12+ years of IT experience developing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale enterprise integration services and platforms across multiple hardware and software environments, with substantial expertise in emerging computing architectures
- 8+ years leading teams in data delivery management and execution, including major projects in data management, data integration, and analytics
- At least 6 years of management experience, including successfully 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 to achieve goals 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 (especially Python), relational databases, data transformation, and development frameworks
- 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)
Nice to have
- Exposure to Real World Data in the clinical/medical space
- Experience with GxP regulations in a life sciences environment
Additional details
- Parexel shares the goal of improving the world's health, providing clinical development solutions from clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access
- Every clinical development solution is underpinned by a deep conviction in what they do
- Each employee contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately benefits a patient; work is done with empathy and commitment to making a difference
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