Senior Director, Enterprise Data & AI Platform

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, 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.