Associate Director, IT – Commercial Data & Insights Architect

Scorpion Therapeutics; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in Foster City, CA is seeking an Associate Director, IT – Commercial Data & Insights Architect to lead data and analytics capabilities across Commercial, Medical Affairs, and Patient Services.

You will define and maintain the data architecture roadmap, design scalable, governed data solutions, and oversee data products, with focus on CRM, claims, payer, and digital engagement; collaborate with stakeholders and ensure compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in data architecture, warehousing, or analytics.
• Experience in regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Commercial data architecture across Commercial, Medical Affairs, and Patient Services.
• Define and maintain the Commercial data architecture roadmap aligned to business priorities.
• Design scalable, governed data architectures for analytics, reporting, omnichannel engagement, and advanced analytics.
• Establish Commercial data standards, patterns, blueprints, and integration approaches.
• Define master data requirements and integration strategies across CRM, patient services, specialty pharmacy, claims, payer, marketing, and third parties.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL/ELT

Metadata/Lineage

Governance

Master data management

Snowflake

SQL

Cloud architectures

Power BI

Tableau

Salesforce Data Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

CRM data

Data warehouses

Job description

Associate Director, IT – Commercial Data & Insights Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead Commercial data and insights capabilities across Commercial, Medical Affairs, and Patient Services.
• Define and maintain the Commercial data architecture roadmap aligned to business priorities.
• Design scalable, governed data architectures for analytics, reporting, omnichannel engagement, and advanced analytics.
• Establish Commercial data standards, patterns, blueprints, and integration approaches.
• Define and oversee architectures for Commercial data warehouses, data marts, semantic models, and data products.
• Design data models and assets for reporting, analytics, forecasting, engagement, segmentation, targeting, and performance measurement.
• Lead Commercial master data architecture (HCP/HCO mastering, affiliations, hierarchies, identifiers, territories, reference data).
• Define master data requirements and integration strategies across CRM, patient services, specialty pharmacy, claims, payer, marketing, and third parties.
• Partner with Commercial Operations, Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Patient Services, and Analytics to translate priorities into scalable solutions.
• Establish standards for Commercial data quality, lineage, metadata, monitoring, auditability, and operational support; ensure compliance with security/privacy/regulatory requirements.
• Lead implementation partners/vendors; oversee solution design, development, testing, deployment, and operational support; ensure documentation and sustainability.
• Partner with Data & AI to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and enable AI/ML use cases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Science/Business or related.
• 8+ years in data architecture/engineering/warehousing/analytics.
• Experience in pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare or other regulated industries preferred.

Skills/Required/Preferred

• Deep expertise in modern data architecture, modeling, ETL/ELT, integration, metadata/lineage, governance, observability.
• Experience with Commercial pharmaceutical data (CRM, specialty pharmacy, claims, payer, digital engagement, sales, customer master data).
• Experience with Snowflake, SQL, cloud architectures, modern integrations.
• Master data management concepts (HCP/HCO mastering, affiliations, hierarchies, reference data).
• Analytics/reporting platforms: Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce Data Cloud, or similar.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and ability to influence without authority.

Compensation

Salary range: $215,000–$230,000 USD (base salary only; bonus/equity/benefits not included unless stated otherwise).