Director, Data Engineering - RWD

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.

At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. We believe in our values, Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.

This role will work within our innovative Data & Technology group that continues to evolve to meet business needs, fuel Parexel's growth and enable improved support for stakeholders, including customers and ultimately patients, who will benefit from Parexel's integrated processes and systems.

This role can be based in the UK, Poland or Romania and can be fully home based and remote working anywhere in any of these locations only.

As the Director of Data Engineering - RWD , you'll be a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for enabling Parexel's 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 our Data and Technology teams, 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.

What You'll Lead:

Data Lake Engineering & Strategy

• Contribute to the strategy, design, and roadmap for our 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

Delivery Excellence & Cross-Functional Leadership

• 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

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

• 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

What We're Looking For:

Experience & Track Record

• Strong advanced level 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

• 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, including:

  • Successfully developing and implementing applications in new computing architecture environments using innovative technologies

  • Managing technical personnel across multiple project lifecycle phases with cross-functional experience

  • Managing financial resources to achieve goals across multiple projects

  • Developing efficient and effective solutions to complex business challenges

Technical Expertise

• 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

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (required)

In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and encouragement to develop within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry. You will be well supported and in return for your hard work you will be rewarded with a competitive base salary, bonus, car allowance and holiday as well as other leading benefits you would expect with a top company in the CRO Industry.

Apply today to begin your Parexel journey!

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