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Job Description

Clinical Operations in our Company Research Labs IT supports clinical trial operations, execution, and management. Our IT team operates as a partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new capabilities and drive efficiencies in our clinical trials.

For this position, Trial Site Monitoring is seeking a highly skilled Technical Lead to drive, oversee, and lead the development and maintenance of our clinical trial risk management applications. This role demans a blend of leadership, technical experience, and a thorough understanding of of clinical trial data workflows. The ideal candidate will also have a strong background in data integration, ETLs, cloud technologies, and data modeling.

Responsibilities:

The Trial Site Monitoring Technical Lead works collaboratively with the Product Manager and Product Line Technical Lead to ensure development standards are adhered to, provides leadership to developers, and that our technical solutions are aligned to the IT strategic roadmap and are always modernized and streamlined for efficiency. This role has overall responsibility for system design, overseeing development, ongoing maintenance, and updating of complex technical solutions leveraging modern technical capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers, ensuring adherence to Agile, GxP, and SDLC processes.

• Architect and oversee the development of data pipelines using a tech stack that includes DBT, Databricks, Airflow, AWS, and Mulesoft

• Design and optimize data models and canonical schemas to support dynamic business needs across clinical, regulatory, and commercial domains

• Use DevSecOps and CI/CD principles and methodologies to ensure the security and efficiency of data operations

• Proactively identify and resolve technical and operational issues, enhance data quality and system performance

• Drives scoping, system requirements, and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives

• Leverages business and user insights to help inform solutions ideas and prioritization decisions to deliver valuable products

• Promote and facilitate the adoption of data products, tools, and best practices across various teams.

• Works closely with Product Line Lead(s), Product Manager(s), User(s), Technical Lead(s), Solution Architect(s) and other Product/Business Analyst(s) in creating, prioritizing and executing against product backlog and for ensuring that quality solutions are designed and delivered to realize business value

• Applies a structured approach to discover, document, and manage the business process, user, and stakeholder needs, including opportunity statements, use cases, insights, and requirement

Prerequisites:

• 6 years in Information Technology

• 3 years in Clinical Trial software experience

• Expertise in AWS services (S3, Glue, EMR, Athena, Lambda)

• Experience with DBT, Databricks, and Airflow

• Experience with Scrum/Kanban/Waterfall Software Development Methodologies

• Strong foundation in data integration, ETL processes, and experience with platforms such as Snowflake and Redshift.

• Expertise in Python and PySpark

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to lead projects from concept to completion.

• Expertise with JIRA & Confluence

• Excellent oral and written communications

• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

• Ability to lead across multiple geographically distributed squads

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• 7 years of experience in data engineering, with a significant portion in a leadership role managing complex data systems

• 5 years in a global pharmaceutical company

• AWS Solutions Architect Certification

• Self-driven with the ability to work in a self-guided manner

• Great organization skills with the ability to prioritize effectively

• Ability to work in matrixed environments with competing priorities

• Experience working with SaaS vendors

• Experience with UX design and research

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree is required. Concentration in a Computer Science, Information Systems or Applications is preferred.

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Expected salary range:

$135,500.00 - $213,400.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here (https://www.benefitsatmerck.com/) .

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

Yes

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

07/9/2024

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Job Posting End Date: 07/09/2024

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Requisition ID: R302131