We are hiring a Senior Consultant to design and deliver data integration, data quality and master data solutions on Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients.Experience: 8+ years in data management, 3+ years hands-on with IDMCEmployment type: Full-time (contract-to-hire option available)Location: Hybrid or remote, with occasional client travelReports to: Data Management Practice LeadYou will own solution design from start to finish, lead client workshops, and guide onshore and offshore developers. You will also make sure every pipeline meets the compliance standards that regulated life sciences data requires.
What you will do
- Key responsibilities
- Lead requirements and design workshops with business, IT and quality stakeholders, and turn their needs into IDMC solution architecture.
- Design and build integrations with Cloud Data Integration (CDI), Cloud Application Integration (CAI) and Mass Ingestion across cloud and on-prem sources.
- Implement data quality rules, profiling and scorecards with Cloud Data Quality (CDQ) for product, customer, HCP and clinical data.
- Configure Customer 360, Product 360 or Supplier 360 (MDM SaaS), including match/merge rules, survivorship, hierarchies and stewardship workflows.
- Set up data governance and lineage in Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC), including business glossaries and policies.
- Lead migrations from PowerCenter or on-prem MDM to IDMC, covering assessment, conversion and cutover planning.
- Build pipelines into Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift or Google BigQuery.
- Produce validation documentation for GxP-regulated systems, such as IQ/OQ/PQ support, traceability matrices and test scripts.
- Mentor junior consultants, review code, and enforce development standards.
- Improve performance and cost through Secure Agent sizing, IPU consumption monitoring and job tuning.
- Contribute to pre-sales work: solution proposals, effort estimates and client demos.
What we look for
- Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Life Sciences or a related field.
- 8+ years in data integration, data quality or MDM, including at least 3 years on IDMC.
- Strong hands-on skills in CDI mappings, taskflows, mapping tasks and parameterization, plus working knowledge of CAI processes and APIs.
- At least two complete IDMC implementations or PowerCenter-to-IDMC migrations delivered.
- Practical experience with CDQ and at least one MDM SaaS module (Customer 360, Product 360 or Reference 360).
- Advanced SQL, and experience with at least one cloud data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure or AWS).
- Familiarity with REST/SOAP APIs, JSON/XML, and scripting in Python or Unix shell.
- Understanding of CI/CD for IDMC assets, such as Git integration, asset export/import and deployment automation.
- Experience on Agile delivery teams using Jira or Azure DevOps.
- Life sciences experience
- Candidates must have delivered data projects for at least one pharma, biotech, CRO or medical device organization. They should know the following areas well:
- Regulatory and compliance: GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, CSV/CSA, ALCOA+ data integrity, HIPAA, GDPR.
- Commercial data: HCP/HCO master data, IQVIA, Veeva CRM and OpenData, Symphony Health, specialty pharmacy data, and Sunshine Act / Open Payments reporting.
- Clinical and R&D data: CDISC standards (SDTM, ADaM), EDC and CTMS integration (Medidata Rave, Veeva Vault Clinical).
- Product and supply chain: product master, IDMP, DSCSA serialization, and SAP S/4HANA or ECC materials and batch data.
- Quality and regulatory systems: Veeva Vault QMS/RIM, TrackWise or similar.
- A senior hire should have depth in two or more of these areas.