Senior Director, Data, Cloud & AI Platforms

Inventiva; France; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Inventiva, a France-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, seeks a hands-on technology leader to architect and operate the data, cloud, and AI platform backbone supporting clinical, scientific, medical, and commercial functions.

Reporting to the CIO, the Senior Director will own architecture, engineering, delivery, and governance of data warehouses, data exchange, and AI infrastructure, enabling trusted data access and scalable analytics across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive IT infrastructure, service operations, and technology leadership experience.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, healthcare, or another highly regulated environment is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data architecture and engineering supporting clinical, safety, medical, commercial, finance, and corporate functions.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data warehouses, integration platforms, and shared data services.
• Establish standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, quality, lineage, and secure access.
• Enable integration and governed data exchange across internal systems, CROs, vendors, and external partners, ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Define common data models, interoperability standards, and centralized or federated architectures, applying FAIR principles where appropriate.
• Partner with functional data owners to establish priorities, accountability, and delivery milestones.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud platforms

AWS

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft 365

ITSM platforms

Job description

Inventiva is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in France, focused on the development of lanifibranor in a Phase 3 trial, NATiV3, in MASH. To learn more, please visit: https://inventivapharma.com/

The Opportunity

The company is seeking a hands-on technology leader to architect, build, and operate the data, cloud, and AI platform backbone that supports the Company’s clinical development, scientific research, medical, commercial, and corporate functions.The role participates in the IT leadership team and is accountable for its platform roadmap, budget, technical standards, and delivery outcomes.

Reporting to the CIO, the Senior Director owns the architecture, engineering, delivery, and technical operation of Inventiva’s data and AI platforms. This includes the underlying cloud environment, data integration and engineering capabilities, data warehouses, shared data services, AI platform infrastructure, and associated technical governance.

The role provides a secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective technology foundation that enables business and scientific teams to access trusted data and develop their own analytics, insights, and applications. This includes supporting clinical, medical, drug safety, biostatistics, and commercial data warehousing, while partnering closely with the respective functional teams on requirements, architecture, integration, and delivery priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data architecture and engineering supporting clinical, safety, medical, commercial, finance, and corporate functions.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data warehouses, integration platforms, and shared data services.
• Establish standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, quality, lineage, and secure access.
• Enable integration and governed data exchange across internal systems, CROs, vendors, and external partners, ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Define common data models, interoperability standards, and centralized or federated architectures, applying FAIR principles where appropriate.
• Partner with functional data owners to establish priorities, accountability, and delivery milestones.
• Develop and maintain data platforms supporting Clinical Operations, Drug Safety, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs, and Biostatistics.
• Integrate clinical and scientific data across EDC, CTMS, eTMF, safety databases, CRO platforms, and other relevant systems.
• Enable secure, governed access to trusted data for authorized reporting, analytics, and scientific applications.
• Establish technical controls for data quality, traceability, lineage, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable platform solutions while maintaining functional ownership of reporting and analytical outputs.
• Support secure data exchange with CROs, research collaborators, and external partners.
• Lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of the commercial data warehouse and supporting infrastructure.
• Partner with Commercial Analytics to deliver scalable data capabilities supporting launch readiness and ongoing operations.
• Integrate commercial data sources, including CRM, claims, market data, patient services, and distribution systems.
• Establish data engineering standards, shared models, security, quality controls, and governed access.
• Maintain clear accountability between platform engineering and Commercial Analytics, which owns business insights, dashboards, reporting, and analytical products.
• Align platform development and delivery with commercial priorities and launch milestones.
• Lead architecture and technical operations of AWS environments supporting data, analytics, AI, and scientific workloads.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure, including automation, identity integration, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Establish cloud cost management, performance optimization, and FinOps practices.
• Develop and maintain compute, data processing, and model-serving environments.
• Evaluate technology solutions, manage platform vendors, and oversee build-versus-buy decisions.
• Partner with IT & Operations to ensure alignment with enterprise infrastructure, security, and operational standards.
• Develop and execute the AI platform roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy and business priorities.
• Build and maintain secure, governed AI and machine-learning infrastructure, including model access, deployment, integration, and monitoring.
• Enable functional teams to develop and deploy approved AI applications through reusable platform capabilities.
• Establish technical controls for AI security, data protection, validation, traceability, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with business stakeholders to assess AI use cases, value, and risk while maintaining functional ownership of business outcomes.
• Collaborate with Quality and IT & Operations to ensure appropriate regulatory oversight, security, and compliance.
• Evaluate secure and privacy-preserving approaches to external data collaboration.
• Establish and maintain technical governance, architecture standards, access controls, and documentation across data, cloud, and AI platforms.
• Partner with IT & Operations on security requirements, technical controls, incident response, and business continuity.
• Collaborate with Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and Privacy to address applicable GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR, data integrity, and privacy requirements.
• Implement risk-based computerized-system validation and maintain audit-ready technical documentation.
• Establish standards for secure data sharing, external integrations, and sensitive information management.
• Develop and maintain technical SOPs, engineering standards, and platform procedures.
• Serve as Inventiva’s technical leader for enterprise data architecture, cloud engineering, warehouse platforms, and AI infrastructure.
• Own platform strategy, roadmaps, budgets, delivery priorities, technical standards, and vendor relationships.
• Translate business and scientific needs into scalable solutions, measurable outcomes, and delivery milestones.
• Oversee architectural decisions, technical performance, platform reliability, and risk management.
• Establish effective partnerships across IT & Operations, functional data owners, analytics teams, and external stakeholders.
• Strong executive communicator and people leader who can balance strategic transformation with operational excellence and who brings a customer-focused, pragmatic approach to technology leadership.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience across enterprise infrastructure, IT service management, end-user computing, digital employee experience, productivity platforms, collaboration technologies, and enterprise operations.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 or comparable productivity platforms, ITSM, endpoint management, networking, infrastructure, AV/collaboration technologies, observability, automation, and managed services is highly desirable.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functions in a small, evolving organization
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and electronic contract management systems

Required / Preferred Education and Licenses

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 12+ years of progressive IT infrastructure, service operations, and technology leadership experience

Preferred

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, healthcare, or another highly regulated environment is strongly preferred.

WHY JOIN US

Join Inventiva at a pivotal moment as we prepare for our next phase of growth. This is an opportunity to contribute your expertise, collaborate across teams, and help advance our mission to improve the lives of patients with serious unmet medical needs.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factor prohibited by law.