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Director, Data Engineering (RWD)

Primary Location: India, Remote Job ID R0000045727 Category Information Technology

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About This Role

As 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

• 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
• Exposure to Real World Data in the clinical/medical space
• Experience with GxP regulations in a life sciences environment advantageous
• 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
• 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)
  
  

If you're an experienced data engineering leader with a passion for building scalable, enterprise-grade data solutions, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and help shape the future of data at Parexel!

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