Senior Manager, Data Engineer, Clinical Operations

Scorpion Therapeutics; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 154,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Wellbeing support

401(k)

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in Princeton, NJ seeks a Senior Manager, Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives across GDD for patient/site engagement and feasibility & forecasting.

You'll collaborate with AI/Data teams, build scalable data platforms using Databricks Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and GenAI integrations, and mentor junior staff to accelerate clinical trial data access and governance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Data Eng/Analytics/AI-ML with cloud data capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience with Databricks Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT, data modeling, and semantic analytics.

Responsibilities

• Support cross-functional AI and Data initiatives.
• Develop scalable data solutions for clinical data usage.
• Collaborate with BI/analysts to drive adoption of the Data Platform.
• Build/maintain GenAI and NLP apps to improve efficiency.
• Mentor junior analysts and vendor resources.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics

AI/ML

Cloud data platforms

Python

SQL

Spark / PySpark

GenAI concepts

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Tools

Databricks Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks Workflows

MLflow

Mosaic AI

Job description

Position Summary

As a Senior Manager, Data Engineer, you will support the Data Engineering community to deliver data and analytics platforms for Global Drug Development (GDD) — Patient & Site engagement and Feasibility & Forecasting.

Key Responsibilities

• Support cross-functional AI and Data initiatives for Clinical Trial Operations product lines.
• Develop and enhance data solutions to accelerate clinical R&D data usage (robustness, interoperability, scalability).
• Collaborate with BI&T, business/data analysts, data engineers, and domain experts to drive adoption of the Data Platform.
• Deliver solutions for data product development: standardization, testing, lineage, latency requirements, and access governance.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, interoperability, availability, and cost using cloud-native parallel processing, Databricks Delta Lake, caching, and partitioning.
• Use Databricks Unity Catalog for governance, metadata management, and end-to-end lineage.
• Build self-service data discovery (findability, accessibility, reusability).
• Maintain documentation; provide technical recommendations.
• Build/deploy GenAI and NLP applications to improve efficiency, accelerate timelines, mitigate risk, and automate compliance.
• Operationalize cloud-based GenAI/LLM applications using RAG, fine-tuning, and vector embeddings.
• Stay current on GenAI/RAG/semantic search/Databricks/cloud orchestration/containerization.
• Mentor junior analysts/interns/vendor resources.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years in Data Engineering/Analytics/AI-ML with hands-on cloud data capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; ability to influence adoption.
• Databricks expertise (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, Mosaic AI, MLflow) and certification strong plus.
• Cloud-native data platforms; ETL/ELT, data modeling, semantic analytics; DevOps experience.
• Python, SQL, Spark (PySpark on Databricks), GenAI frameworks; LLM architectures, RAG, prompt engineering, agentic frameworks.
• Production-grade GenAI apps, predictive models, self-service analytics.
• Working knowledge of LLM/GenAI approaches (RAG, fine-tuning, vectorization, agentic frameworks, prompt engineering).
• Life sciences/clinical trial operations knowledge strongly preferred; familiarity with Veeva Vault, Medidata Rave, IRT preferred.

Benefits (as stated)

• Health Coverage; Wellbeing support; Financial wellbeing/protection (401(k), disability, life insurance, etc.).

Compensation Overview (as stated)

• Princeton, NJ: $153,770–$186,327 (full-time). Additional incentives may apply based on eligibility.