Senior Enterprise Data Architect – Life Sciences & Pharma

Planet Pharma Group; California; Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Pharma is seeking an Associate Director, Enterprise Information Architecture to drive data architecture across Clinical Operations, Safety, Regulatory, and other domains. You will operationalize architecture standards, advance MDM/RDM, DQ, and governance, and partner with leadership to deliver trusted, governed data products for R&D and enterprise decision-making.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, collaboration with global teams, and hands-on problem-solving in modern data platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree HARD Requirement
• Experience in data architecture within biopharma or pharm industry
• Architect/lead business analyst in relevant projects
• Knowledge of Information science, architecture, and pharma PV
• Databricks experience would be a huge plus
• Life sciences company background with data analytics from pharma space
• If not from life sciences, unlikely to be considered
• Architect/Lead BA who understands clinical trials in database systems and data types in life sciences

Responsibilities

• Scale the Enterprise Information Architecture framework, standards, and best practices.
• Define and maintain enterprise data domains, subdomains, and canonical data models.
• Ensure alignment of R&D data initiatives with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Provide architectural leadership and execution support for key programs.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and reusable data products.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to design end-to-end data solutions.
• Guide teams in adopting common data models, semantic layers, and architecture patterns.
• Ensure Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers within the platform.
• Support creation and certification of trusted data products for enterprise use.
• Create and review data models and enforce modeling standards.
• Lead enterprise Semantic Modelling standard and framework for context engineering.

Skills

Data architecture

Biopharma domain

Lead business analyst

Information science

Architect role

PV knowledge

Databricks

Life sciences analytics

Data types LS

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Information Science, Computer Science, Data Management, Life Sciences, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Planet Pharma is seeking an Associate Director, Enterprise Information Architecture to drive data architecture across Clinical Operations, Safety, Regulatory, and other domains. You will operationalize architecture standards, advance MDM/RDM, DQ, and governance, and partner with leadership to deliver trusted, governed data products for R&D and enterprise decision-making.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, collaboration with global teams, and hands-on problem-solving in modern data platforms