Director, Clinical Data Engineering

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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 Director, Clinical Data Engineering 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.

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

• Provide strategic leadership for a team of Clinical Data Engineers responsible for building, maintaining and enhancing data pipelines across clinical systems.
• Responsible for the integration, design, development, and execution of data pipelines for the ingestion and integration of clinical data from all trial data sources.
• Develop and maintain a library of data schemas and templates for managing sustainable clinical data flows.
• Accountable to act as the technical data SME for data related process work in Takeda.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Lead team of Clinical Data Engineers responsible for building data pipelines [ETL or ELT] for various heterogenous data sources.
• Drive strategy related to the design and implementation of scalable data delivery pipelines and transition from manual to automated processes.
• Serve as a thought leader and strategist ; guide and empower the team to develop and maintain, tools, libraries, and reusable templates of data pipelines and standards for study level consumption by data configuration engineers.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for data extraction, transformation and loading of data using cloud technologies.
• Able to communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical teams at all levels of the organization.
• Educate and train end users about clinical data pipelines.
• Motivate and support team members in achieving business priorities and development goals.
• Able to manage study deliverable timelines and deliver on time with high quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business priorities and ensure alignment with CDE roadmap.
• Promote organizational knowledge of data sources and systems to educate stakeholders on best practices for data ingestion and data integration to pursue company objectives.
• Provide technical leadership on various aspects of clinical data flow including assisting with the definition, build, and validation of application program interfaces (APIs), data streams, data staging to various systems for data extraction and integration.
• Organize and set clear goals and expectations for direct reports and stakeholders related to CDE deliverables.
• Understand end-to-end requirements for stakeholders and contribute to process and conventions for clinical data ingestion and data transfer agreements.
• Act as functional process expert in the development of Clinical Data Engineering SOPs and provide business guidance.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• BS degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics preferred or equivalent combination of education, training and exper