Senior Manager, Clinical Data Ingestion

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Senior Manager, Clinical Data Ingestion in our Cambridge, MA office.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

OBJECTIVES:

The Senior Manager, Clinical Data Ingestion is responsible for ingesting, validating, and operationalizing clinical data feeds into clinical data review platforms (e.g., Veeva CDB, Elluminate, JReview) to enable efficient, high-quality clinical data review. This role focuses on strong ingestion principles, building and scaling reusable ingestion frameworks, and establishing monitoring and controls for vendor transfers and enterprise sources (e.g., EDC, CTMS) as well as managing downstream exports to enable analytics and programming teams.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ingest clinical data from EDC/CTMS and vendors (e.g., labs, eCOA, imaging, safety) into Veeva CDB/Elluminate/JReview per specifications and refresh cadence.

• Execute and support file/API loads, including mapping, transformations, referential integrity, and controlled reprocessing.

• Apply ingestion best practices: standardization, automated QC/validation, reconciliation, auditability/lineage, and incremental loads.

• Build and maintain a reusable ingestion framework and standards (templates, metadata-driven mappings, reusable QC rules, runbooks) to accelerate onboarding and improve consistency.

• Operate transfer monitoring and ingestion operations: expected vs received, timeliness/completeness checks, alerting/escalation, scheduling/re-runs, defect triage, and KPI/SLA tracking.

• Ensure datasets are review-ready and manage downstream exports to internal consumers with clear data contracts and refresh expectations.

• Partner with vendors and stakeholders to define/maintain transfer specs and acceptance criteria; provide SME troubleshooting and document fixes for repeatable operations.

• Follow controlled documentation and change practices for regulated clinical processes, maintaining validation/traceability evidence and audit-ready records as required.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Education:

• BS/BA (or equivalent) plus 7+ years in data ingestion/integration. ETL/ELT operations, or clinical data pipeline support, ideally supporting clinical data review and recurring study/vendor transfers.  

Technical Competencies

• Preferred platform exposure: Experience ingesting data into Veeva CDB, Elluminate, and/or JReview (or comparable clinical data review systems).

• Clinical data ingestion principles: Strong understanding of end-to-end ingestion concepts including data contracts/specifications, refresh cadence, incremental vs full loads, controlled reprocessing, reconciliation, and traceable lineage.

• Data quality & review readiness: Ability to design/execute automated QC/validation checks, completeness/timeliness verification, and reconciliation routines to ensure datasets are review-ready.

• Data formats & interfaces: Hands-o