Director, Data Science Engineering
Medidata: Powering Smarter Treatments and Healthier People
Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of people. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 2,000+ customers and partners access the world's most trusted platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Known for its ground-breaking technological innovations, Medidata has supported more than 30,000 clinical trials and 9 million study participants. And Medidata’s ongoing commitment to infusing the patient voice into trial designs and solutions is helping to create a better and more inclusive experience for all participants in clinical studies. Medidata is involved in nearly 40% of company-initiated trial starts globally, with studies conducted in more than 140 countries. More than 70% of novel drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022 were developed with Medidata software. Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com and follow us @medidata.
Medidata is looking for individuals who will help us solve some of the most complex questions facing the industry today using our proprietary platform and advanced analytics. At Medidata, we never work alone. You will partner with all of the departments including product, delivery, data science, application engineering, partnerships, and biostatistics. You will be accomplished in analytical/quantitative thinking, and excited about building the next horizon of Medidata's mission to power smarter treatments and healthier people.
Our Team:
Medidata is looking for individuals who will help us tackle some of the most complex questions facing the industry today using our proprietary platform and advanced analytics. At Medidata, we never work alone. This role will partner heavily with all of the key stakeholder functions including product, delivery, data science, engineering, partnerships, and biostatistics. Successful Medidata AI candidates will be skilled in analytical/quantitative thinking, structured communication, and excited about building the next horizon of Medidata’s mission to power smarter treatments and healthier
Your Competencies:
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Provide strategic technical guidance for motivated data engineering teams
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Lead technical delivery of complex cloud-based data systems (AWS and Snowflake), balancing depth of analysis and delivery timing
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Architect and build data and modeling pipelines for research and production with data engineering best practices, quality, transparency and scalability.
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Grow the Acorn AI data science engineering function through recruiting, coaching, and employee development.
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Solve complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of cross-organizational and client goals
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Engage with business leaders, engineers, data scientists and cross-functional partners to implement data science engineering solutions based on our solution priorities and technology projects
Your Education and Experience:
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10+ years of increasing supervisory and mentoring experience combining definition of strategy with a hands-on management approach
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Master's degree in a quantitative science, life science or equivalent
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Focus on maintaining large, scalable environments for the enrichment, linking and analysis of complex data sets
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Experience building complex, automated data processes in Python, Spark, AWS, Airflow, Snowflake and other technologies
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Commitment to creating rigorous, high-quality insights from data at scale.
The salary range posted below refers only to positions that will be physically based in New York City. As with all roles, Medidata sets ranges based on a number of factors including function, level, candidate expertise and experience, and geographic location. Pay ranges for candidates in locations other than New York City, may differ based on the local market data in that region. The base salary pay range for this position is $157,500 to $210,000.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata’s non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; 401(k) matching; unlimited paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.
Diversity statement
Equal opportunity
MEDIDATA generates the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes.