Process Development Engineer III, Data Management

Role Summary

The Data Enablement and Analytics (DEA) team within PAPD drives digitalization by making data usable, reliable, and impactful across process development. We are seeking a Data Solutions Engineer with deep expertise in LIMS solutions like LabWare LIMS or Benchling and enable analytics from this data. This person will serve as a functional and technical bridge between laboratory users, process development scientists, and digital/data platforms.

This role is critical to ensuring high‑quality data capture, governance, integration, and reporting across PAPD workflows. The ideal candidate combines strong LIMS domain knowledge with hands‑on experience in data platforms (data lakes and data stores) and reporting/visualization tools and brings excellent communication and collaboration skills.
 

Key Responsibilities

LIMS Platform Ownership & Support

• Act as a superuser and subject‑matter expert for LabWare and Benchling Lab information management systems (LIMS), supporting day‑to‑day PAPD laboratory operations.
• Work with IT and our LIMS vendors to support onboarding, training, and adoption of new LIMS capabilities across PAPD.
• Partner with laboratory scientists, process engineers, and data teams to optimize LIMS configurations, workflows, templates, and metadata standards.
• Troubleshoot LIMS issues, coordinate with vendors/IT, and drive continuous improvement.

Reporting & Analytics Enablement

• Enable and support reporting and visualization using Spotfire, Tableau, and Power BI, ensuring PAPD data from various data sources is usable for operational, scientific, and management insights.
• Work with stakeholders to define key metrics, dashboards, and reporting requirements tied to PAPD processes.

Data Integration & Digital Enablement

• Ensure LIMS data is complete, consistent, and analysis‑ready, supporting downstream consumption by data lakes, data stores, and analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with DEA data engineering and OT/IT partners to enable reliable data pipelines from LIMS into enterprise data platforms.
• Contribute to creation of data standards, data quality checks, and documentation that support scalable digital solutions.

PAPD Process & Documentation

• Apply strong knowledge of PAPD processes, workflows, and documentation practices to ensure digital solutions align with how work is performed in the labs.
• Support documentation, data traceability, and audit readiness as required.

Collaboration & Agile Execution

• Serve as a team player and connector across PAPD, DEA, IT, and external vendors and execute using SAFe (Scaled Agile Frameworks).
• Translate between scientific, technical, and business stakeholders with clear, concise communication.
• Act as the overall product owner and product manager for multiple agile teams and drive forward the PAPD roadmap using Agile methodology.
• Participate in cross‑functional initiatives supporting PAPD’s broader digital and data strategy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of total experience.

• Good understanding of LIMS Solutions and hands‑on experience with LabWare or Benchling LIMS solutions.

• Strong understanding of laboratory data flows, sample management, and experimental workflows.
• Working knowledge of data lakes, data stores, and data integration concepts.
• Experience enabling reporting or analytics using Spotfire, Tableau, and/or Power BI.
• Solid understanding of PAPD process development environments and documentation.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within biopharma or biotech process development organizations.
• Familiarity with upstream and downstream processing and analytics needs in a biopharma company.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata standards, and data quality practices.
• Experience partnering with IT, data engineering, or digital transformation teams.
• Familiarity with AI capabilities of Tableau Cloud, Power BI tools or similar.

Why Join DEA & PAPD

• Play a key role in PAPD’s digital transformation and data strategy.
• Work at the intersection of laboratory science, data platforms, and analytics.
• Collaborate with a highly cross‑functional team supporting Regeneron’s mission to bring new medicines to patients.

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