Director of Analytics Systems & Platform Engineering

Beacon Biosignals; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

PTO

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Beacon Biosignals seeks a Director of Analytics Systems to lead a distributed team delivering Beacon’s Analytics Suite products for Life Sciences and Diagnostics. You’ll guide data tooling, pipelines, and platform features to empower scientists to curate clinical trial data and perform rigorous analyses.

The role requires managing a growing team, maintaining engineering excellence, and aligning roadmap with Beacon’s strategic goals.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of management experience leading analytics engineering teams.
• Experience with analytics engineering tools and data pipelines (dbt, SQLMesh, Snowflake, Databricks, Argo, Airflow).
• Experience in regulated or quality-sensitive environments and in clinical diagnostics or pharma/biotech contexts.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across diverse partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage 6-10 engineers (and later managers) on the Analytics Systems Team, mentoring and guiding career growth.
• Develop and share deep understanding of the team’s activity and products to enable process improvements.
• Maintain high engineering quality, productivity, and accountability while scaling impact.
• Plan and prioritize weekly work in alignment with strategic initiatives across teams.
• Ensure the team’s long-term roadmap is outcome-oriented and well-communicated to stakeholders.
• Own project management for team initiatives, including scope and timelines.
• Drive product direction and discovery for Analytics Systems, building cross-functional connections.
• Craft and execute a forward-looking vision for analytics in life sciences, diagnostics, and biomarker discovery using real world data.

Skills

Management experience

Analytics engineering

Data modeling

Communication

Stakeholder management

Prioritization

Tools

dbt

SQLMesh

Snowflake

Databricks

Argo

Airflow

Superset

Looker

Tableau

Job description

Beacon Biosignals seeks a Director of Analytics Systems to lead a distributed team delivering Beacon’s Analytics Suite products for Life Sciences and Diagnostics. You’ll guide data tooling, pipelines, and platform features to empower scientists to curate clinical trial data and perform rigorous analyses.

The role requires managing a growing team, maintaining engineering excellence, and aligning roadmap with Beacon’s strategic goals.