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Proactively identifies and advances strategic data, analytics, and AI opportunities with business unit leaders, providing technical solution leadership across all aspects of information systems planning, design, delivery, and optimization.

Leads the translation of business problems into end-to-end technical solutions, defining data architecture, modeling approaches, and solution design while evaluating trade-offs across platforms and technologies. Moves beyond traditional requirements gathering to own and shape solution direction, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution.  

Champions the delivery of advanced custom analytics and AI solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams, challenging conventional thinking, and driving measurable business value through a deep understanding of data, processes, and systems—ultimately advancing impactful outcomes for patients. 

Responsibilities:

•  Lead the conception, design, and deployment of data, analytics, and AI solutions, translating  strategic objectives and information needs into scalable, end-to-end system architectures across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and consumption layers. 
•  Act as a technical solution lead across a portfolio of initiatives, guiding cross-functional teams through the full lifecycle of data and AI products, ensuring alignment on architecture, priorities, and delivery outcomes. 
•  Define and oversee data models, semantic layers, and transformation logic, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with business definitions and KPIs. 
•  Partner closely with data engineering, data science, and platform teams to guide implementation, challenge design decisions, and ensure high-quality technical delivery. 
•  Drive pragmatic solutioning by balancing speed, cost, scalability, and data readiness—clearly articulating trade-offs and guiding stakeholders toward optimal decisions. 
•  Lead stakeholder engagement and governance forums, effectively communicating complex technical concepts in business terms while managing expectations across competing priorities. 
•  Champion the development and deployment of advanced analytics and AI solutions (including ML and LLM-based use cases), ensuring alignment with business value and operational feasibility. 
•  Ensure adherence to enterprise standards, including data governance, security, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GxP), while enabling innovation. 
•  Facilitate incremental and iterative delivery approaches (e.g., MVPs, phased releases) to accelerate time-to-value while managing risk and data limitations. 
•  Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation by introducing modern data practices, tools, and architectural patterns. 

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years’ experience, master’s degree with 5 years’ experience, PhD and 0 years’ experience
• Experience in data, analytics, or technical solution leadership roles.
• Proven excellence in analytical thinking, sound judgment, and consultative abilities, with strong communication and influencing skills to navigate and balance diverse stakeholder interests through data-driven decision-making and technical leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical solutions with increasing ownership, driving clarity and execution across cross-functional and matrixed teams in ambiguous environments.
• Experience managing or contributing to a portfolio of initiatives, with the ability to prioritize, align stakeholders, and drive outcomes across multiple concurrent efforts.
• Strong understanding of relational and analytical data platforms, including advanced SQL proficiency, data modeling (dimensional modeling, semantic layers), and data pipeline design (ETL/ELT).
• Experience with modern data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or similar platforms, along with transformation/orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Spark, Airflow, Informatica).
• Working knowledge of Python for data analysis, prototyping, or light data processing.
• Familiarity with BI and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Spotfire, Qlik) and an understanding of how data is consumed by business users.
• Practical understanding of AI/ML concepts, with exposure to real-world use cases and an understanding of when to apply different approaches (e.g., rules-based vs ML vs LLM-driven solutions).

Preferred:

• Experience in life sciences/pharma environments and familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations.
• Familiarity with data governance and catalog tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra).

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