Data Domain Lead, Lab Data (Director)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher’s PPD clinical research business, we’re using digital innovation, data science, and AI to reimagine how life-changing therapies reach patients. Our teams combine deep scientific expertise with advanced analytics, automation, and digital platforms to make research smarter, faster, and more connected.

At PPD we know that innovation happens when diverse minds meet. Our Digital Science, Data, and AI professionals collaborate closely with scientists, clinicians, and operational experts to solve real-world challenges in clinical research. Alongside our partnership with Open AI, you can be part of the collaboration that will help to improve the speed and success of drug development, enabling customers to get medicines to patients faster and more cost effectively.

You’ll join a culture that values experimentation, learning, and collaboration — where your ideas can help shape how we deliver life-saving solutions and improve global health outcomes. Whether you’re a data engineer, product manager, software developer, or AI scientist, you’ll find opportunities here to apply your skills to work that truly matters — improving global health outcomes. 

Position Summary
The Data Domain Lead, Lab Data (known internally as Director IT, band 9) owns the end-to-end data strategy, prioritization, technical roadmap, and delivery for their assigned domain, and is responsible for delivering value via trusted, interoperable, AI-ready data products and capabilities.  This role leads Domain Managers, Data Solutions Specialists, BSAs, MDM/quality analysts, and technical delivery teams and partners in a matrix with Data Platforms, Digital Products, Data Governance, and CRG data owners and business stakeholders to ensure availability and robustness of data to achieve business objectives.

Reporting to the Head of Data Capabilities, CRG Digital, you will become the subject matter expert in your assigned data domain and are accountable for domain vision, roadmap execution, user outcomes, value realization, and internal SOP and regulatory compliance (21 CFR Part 11, ICH-GCP, GDPR, HIPAA).

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Roadmap, Vision, and Value Realization
Develop the vision and roadmap for your data domain, aligned with CRG Digital product roadmaps and key strategic initiatives.  Ensure that trusted, high-quality data is available at the right time by prioritizing data initiatives against these roadmaps on an ongoing basis.  Proactively plan for future innovations and drive exploration of new capabilities, including potential external commercialization of new internal data products and capabilities.  Develop metrics and KPIs for assessing data consumption.

Data Sourcing
Based on the strategic roadmap within assigned domain, define data needs and determine internal data availability, including developing expertise in data flows between internal systems and appropriate uses of internal data.  Partner with internal stakeholders, Legal, and other teams as needed to address barriers to data access.  Maintain an understanding of the external data landscape for assigned domain and identify external partners to address internal data gaps. Lead partnership scoping, business case alignment, negotiations, internal management and external alliance management for external data partners.  

Delivery Oversight
Lead technical execution of data delivery within your assigned domain, ensuring that data is available for consumption within CRG Digital’s data platform. Ensure that product/business requirements are translated into technical requirements and that data is appropriately mapped and modeled, applying product management techniques to data models (roadmap, backlog, etc.).  Work closely with data and platforms engineers to make data available in the platform, including data cataloging and creation of semantic layers where relevant.  

People & Org Leadership
Line-manage and coach domain talent, including a combination of FTE and external partner team resources.  Foster a data-product mindset and a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.  Provide oversight of and strong engagement with external partner teams to ensure that they function as a flexible and seamless extension of CRG’s internal teams.

Stakeholder & Customer Engagement
Serve as executive liaison to product and relevant project teams within CRG Digital.  Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in CRG divisions to ensure alignment and support for data initiatives.

Governance, Compliance & Data Stewardship
Drive data stewardship and govern