Senior Data Architect - Evinova

Job Title: Senior Data Architect - Evinova
Location: Gaithersburg, MD

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe. 

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects. 

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Are you able to think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you!

Transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and pioneering ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector.

Introduction to Role:

Our cloud platform will play a crucial part in the success of Evinova as the foundation for our current and future digital products. We are creating a dynamic and innovative team to take our organization to the forefront of technology solutions for the life sciences industry. We are committed to delivering innovative, secure, and regulated experiences for our customers. As we begin our journey, we are seeking a dedicated and experienced Senior Data Architect that can understand large, complex data integration landscapes and drive optimal data model and data pipeline solutions.

This position offers a unique opportunity to lead as a data expert, innovate, and make a significant impact on our ability to meet customer needs. An ideal candidate should be a creative problem solver who can identify and deeply understand challenges and opportunities for Evinova customers and products. This role presents an opportunity to join Evinova from the beginning, implementing a market-leading, foundational platform designed by industry, for industry. 

Accountabilities:

• Data Architecture: Experience working with complex data systems, reverse-engineering, and understanding data requirements of disparate systems to build out a singular data architecture across and entire platform, and/or individual applications.   
• Data Flow: Able to map how data flows through a system from start to finish and through that process optimize.
• Database Engineering: Experience in building SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DocumentDB, and DynamoDB) databases.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure the applications and services meets all regulatory requirements specific to the pharmaceutical industry, including data security, privacy, and compliance with industry standards by working work the appropriate quality teams and following the expected processes needed.
• Security and Data Protection: Work with the Cyber Security teams to develop and maintain robust security access controls, encryption, and data protection, to safeguard sensitive pharmaceutical data within our deployments, security and compliance checks, and operations for the application, its services, and database.
• Monitoring and Performance Optimization: Help implement monitoring and analytics tools to track platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization for data systems and data flow.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, quality assurance, and customer support, to ensure platform alignment with customer requirements and company goals.
• Quality Assurance: Work with and develop a strong repeatable process with our QA teams to ensure data integrity, security, privacy, and compliance with industry regulations for delivering and maintaining platform services.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for the databases and data architecture, ensuring transparency and ease of use for both internal teams and potentially customers.
• Compliance Adherence: Comprehension of regulatory data requirements while creating, maintaining, and updating processes for testing and assessment of adherence to regulatory compliance policies.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture and data pipelines
• Understanding of modern data solutions and tools
• Familiarity with AWS cloud development environment and capabilities including Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, EventBridge, and CDK w/Typescript.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes clusters and kafka streams.
• Expertise in database systems  and best practices
• Good knowledge of github and CI/CD for data engineering workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Node.js, Python and TypeScript. Familiarity with Kotlin preferred.
• Proficiency in security best practices, data protection, and encryption methods.
• Knowledge of data security standards and regulatory compliance in the healthcare and clinical research industry.
• Familiarity with technical concepts in infrastructure or applications.
• Knowledge of industry good practice and standards such as ISO (multiple), GAMP GxP, ICH GCP, FDA 21 CFR, GDPR, CMMI, ITIL, GDPR.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in an agile environment.
• Good project management and time management skills.
• Lifelong learner always looking to expand knowledge and experience.
• Ability to describe technical concepts verbally and in documentation.
• Meticulous attention to detail to ensure data integrity, accuracy, and compliance.
• Ability to work with a diverse team distributed around the globe.
• Strong collaboration and relationship building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong leadership skills to drive accountability and inspire the organization to do the right thing.
• Pragmatic decision making - analyzes highly complex situations, assessing risks and balancing strategic and tactical compliance/quality requirements.
• Tenacity - challenges the status quo by surfacing challenging and complex issues to get simple and desirable outcomes.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Actively identifies untapped opportunities and drives benefit realization.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or analytics.
• Long history of enjoying problem solving.

Why Evinova?

Evinova draws on AstraZeneca’s deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment. We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider healthcare community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients. Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health-tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

Total Rewards:
The annual base pay for this position ranges from $123,114.40 to $184,671.60. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. 

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.

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