Technical Manager, IT Applications (DATA)

Grifols, S.A; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Grifols, S.A. in the United States (NC-RTP) seeks a Technical Manager, IT Applications (DATA) to design and maintain enterprise data models that underpin data products and analytics initiatives.

You will bridge business, engineering, analytics, and governance to deliver structured, scalable data solutions. Responsibilities include modeling, documentation, performance tuning, and coordinating with SAP, Power BI, Azure, and data catalog tools, while ensuring governance and security compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Management, or related field.
• Advanced English language skills (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement conceptual, logical, and physical data models that accurately represent business processes and datasets.
• Create ERDs, data flow diagrams, and other artefacts to document the data landscape.
• Collaborate with database administrators, software engineers, and data engineers to deploy and maintain models across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Conduct performance tuning and optimization to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Ensure data solutions are aligned with governance, security requirements and platform capabilities.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as SAP, SAP BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data catalog/governance tools.
• Ability to define technical designs, review data models, understand system integrations, and make informed architecture recommendations.
• Data Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management
• Conduct market and competitive research to identify opportunities for product innovation and differentiation.
• Lead user acceptance testing (UAT) and gather stakeholder feedback to drive iterative product improvements.
• Manage data product catalogs, data contracts (SLAs, sharing agreements), and product governance frameworks.
• Governance, Quality & Compliance
• Ensure data models and data products comply with organizational standards around data governance, security, quality and compliance.
• Oversee the definition, maintenance, and adoption of standards for metadata, documentation, and data lineage.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, pain points, and data needs.
• Facilitate workshops / sessions with business and IT teams to define requirements, align scope, resolve dependencies, and drive decision‑making.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across functions such as Commercial, Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, or Plasma Operations.
• Act as coordination point between business teams, IT Data team and other IT teams for data related topics such as architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, application teams and Business Relationships Managers.

Skills

Data modeling

Stakeholder collaboration

English proficiency

Enterprise data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Data Science/SE/related

Tools

SAP

SAP BI

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Power BI

SAP Analytics Cloud

Data warehouses

Data lakes

Data catalog/governance tools

Job description

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Technical Manager, IT Applications (DATA)

Location: NC-RTP, US

Contract Type: Regular Full-Time

Area: INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

We believe that diversity adds value to our business, our teams, and our culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunities, fostering an inclusive environment where diversity makes us outstanding.

Help us lead one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. We are a world leader in plasma-derived medicines with a presence in more than 100 countries, and a growing global team of over 20.000 people. That’s why we need a TECHNICAL MANAGER IT APPS DATA like you.

Mission

You will be responsible for designing and maintaining high‑quality data models that serve as the foundation for enterprise data products while defining the product strategy, requirements, and roadmap to ensure these data assets deliver measurable business value.

We are looking for a professional that act as a bridge between business, engineering, analytics, and governance teams, to ensure that data products are well‑structured, compliant, high‑performing, and aligned with organizational objectives.

What your responsibilities will be

• Design, develop, and implement conceptual, logical, and physical data models that accurately represent business processes and datasets.
• Create ERDs, data flow diagrams, and other technical artefacts to document the data landscape.
• Collaborate with database administrators, software engineers, and data engineers to deploy and maintain models across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Conduct performance tuning and optimization to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Ensure data solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture, governance standards, security requirements and platform capabilities.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as SAP, SAP BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data catalog/governance tools.
• Ability to define technical designs, review data models, understand system integrations, and make informed architecture recommendations.
• Data Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management
• Conduct market and competitive research to identify opportunities for product innovation and differentiation.
• Lead user acceptance testing (UAT) and gather stakeholder feedback to drive iterative product improvements.
• Manage data product catalogs, data contracts (SLAs, sharing agreements), and product governance frameworks.
• Governance, Quality & Compliance
• Ensure data models and data products comply with organizational standards around data governance, security, quality and compliance. Take into account we work in a highly regulated environment.
• Oversee the definition, maintenance, and adoption of standards for metadata, documentation, and data lineage.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, pain points, and data needs.
• Facilitate workshops / sessions with business and IT teams to define requirements, align scope, resolve dependencies, and drive decision‑making.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders accross functions such as Commercial, Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, or Plasma Operations.
• Act as coordination point between business teams, IT Data team and other IT teams for data related topics such as architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, application teams and Business Relationships Managers.

Who you are

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, education, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions).

Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product Management, or related field.
• Advanced English language skills (spoken and written).
• Minimum of