Associate Director, Data Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Facilitate data movement for Parexel within the Enterprise Data Lake.

• Provide standardized operational data products across clinical, safety, and corporate sectors.

• Play a key role in shaping the data lake strategy, engineering, and operations.

• Ensure the delivery of trusted, high-quality, and well-governed data.

• Act as a subject matter expert in data delivery processes.

• Lead engineering initiatives related to data ingestion, transformation, storage, and optimization within the Enterprise Data Lake.

• Oversee the performance, quality, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of data in the lake environment.

• Guarantee scalable engineering pipelines across various data domains.

• Build, mentor, and guide global data engineering teams.

• Foster a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and customer-centric delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

• Extensive experience in implementing and supporting enterprise data initiatives on cloud platforms.

• Proficiency with modern data management and data-sharing tools, programming languages, relational databases, data transformation, and development frameworks.

• Experience with GxP regulations within a life sciences setting is highly preferred.

• Proven expertise in data and cloud platforms, especially Azure Databricks.

• Comprehensive understanding of architectural best practices and application design and estimation methodologies.

• Significant experience with medallion architecture-based data lake implementations; Power BI experience is advantageous.

• Advanced skills in SQL querying and query optimization are essential.

• Solid knowledge of application architectures and enterprise application ecosystems.

• Extensive IT experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale enterprise integration services and platforms across diverse hardware and software environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Bonus and holiday pay.

• Additional leading benefits.