Director, Real-World Data Engineering

Parexel; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Parexel seeks a Director, Data Engineering - RWD to lead domain engineering for Real-World Data in a life sciences context. You will orchestrate ingestion, transformation, and distribution across cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality, governed data assets for analytics and sponsor-facing use cases.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, data governance, and collaboration with Clinical Operations, Commercial, and governance teams.

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in enterprise data engineering and RWD
• Strong matrixed leadership and cross-functional coordination
• Experience with life sciences data environments and regulated data
• Hands-on cloud data platforms with Databricks, lakehouse, CI/CD and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Lead RWD data ingestion, transformation, curation and distribution
• Coordinate across ingestion, engineering and distribution teams
• Shape roadmaps, prioritize work, manage dependencies and governance
• Ensure data quality, metadata management and secure data distribution

Skills

Azure Databricks

Lakehouse architecture

CI/CD

Python

SQL

Data governance

Data quality

Data observability

API integration

Orchestration frameworks

Monitoring

Matrixed leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Azure Data Lake

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Parexel seeks a Director, Data Engineering - RWD to lead domain engineering for Real-World Data in a life sciences context. You will orchestrate ingestion, transformation, and distribution across cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality, governed data assets for analytics and sponsor-facing use cases.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, data governance, and collaboration with Clinical Operations, Commercial, and governance teams.