Takeda · 1 day ago
Associate Director, Clinical Data Engineer (CDE)
United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$154K/yr - $241K/yr
9+ years expTakeda is a leading company in the pharmaceutical industry, and they are seeking an Associate Director, Clinical Data Engineer (CDE) to enhance their Clinical Data Engineering group. This role focuses on managing and integrating clinical trial data, ensuring efficient data extraction and transformation processes, and providing technical leadership to support clinical trial deliverables.
BiotechnologyHealth CareManufacturingMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Ability to manage teams and timelines across multiple functional areas and platforms. Mentor and guide other team members
Advanced knowledge and ability to liaise with outside groups in a matrix environment
Building required infrastructure for optimal data extraction, transformation and loading of data using cloud technologies like AWS, Azure etc
Develop end to end processes on the enterprise level for use by the clinical data configuration specialist to prepare data extraction and transformations of raw data quickly and efficiently from various sources at the study level
Manage timelines, deliverables and communications across organization
Develop and maintain, tools, libraries, and reusable templates of data pipelines and standards for study level consumption by data configuration specialist
Collaborate with various vendors and cross functional teams to build and align on data transfer specification and ensure a streamlined process of data integration
Develop organizational knowledge of key data sources, systems and be a valuable resource to people in the company on how to best integrate data to pursue company objectives
Provides technical leadership on various aspects of clinical data flow including assisting with the definition, build, and validation of application program interfaces (APIs), data streams, data staging to various systems for data extraction and integration
Coordinates with data base builders, clinical data configuration specialists and data management (DM) programmers ensuring accuracy of data integration per SOPs
Provide technical support / consultancy and end-user support, work with Information Technology (IT) in troubleshooting, reporting, and resolving system issues
Efficiently prepare and process large datasets for various end users for downstream consumption
Understand end to end requirements for stakeholders and contribute to process and conventions for clinical data ingestion and data transfer agreements
Adhere to SOPs for computer system validation and all GCP (Good Clinical Practice) regulations
Performs clinical data engineering tasks according to applicable SOPs (standard operating procedures) and processes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, biology or other health related field or equivalent experience that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to perform the job
BS with 9+ years' experience. Minimum of 5 years' experience in data engineering, building data pipelines to manage heterogenous data ingestions or similar in data integration across multiple sources including collected data
Experience with Python/R, SQL, NoSQL
Cloud experience (i.e. AWS, AZURE or GCP)
Experience with GitLab, GitHub
Experience deploying data pipelines in the cloud
Experience with Apache Spark
Experience setting up and working with data warehouse, data lakes (eg snowflake, Amazon RedShift etc.,)
Experience setting up ELT and ETL
Experience with unstructured data processing and transformation
Experience developing and maintaining data pipelines for large amounts of data efficiently
Must understand database concepts. Knowledge of XML, JSON, APIs
Demonstrated ability to lead junior Data engineers and proven ability to resolve problems independently and collaboratively
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle and prioritize multiple competing tasks and demands
Ability to work independently, take initiative and complete tasks to deadlines
Strong attention to detail, and organizational skills
Strong Project leadership and people skills
Strong understating of end-to-end processes for data collection, extraction and analysis needs by end users
Strong ability to communicate with cross functional stakeholders
Strong ability to develop technical specifications based on communication from stakeholders
Quick learner and comfortable asking questions, learning new technologies and systems
Experience creating custom functions Python/R
Cloud computing (AWS, Snowflakes, Databricks)
Ability to visualize large datasets
R shiny/Python App experience a plus
Experience developing R shiny and Python apps
Is comfortable with ambiguity
Excellent teamwork, organizational, interpersonal, conflict resolution and problem-solving skills
Supervision required, should be able to function collaboratively (with guidance) with all levels of employees
Performs clinical data engineering tasks according to applicable SOPs (standard operating procedures) and processes
Preferred
Preferred to have AWS or R or Python certification
Benefits
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives.
U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others.
U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
Company
Takeda
Takeda is a biopharmaceutical company that researches and develops pharmaceutical drugs.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.46B2025-06-27Post Ipo Debt· $2.4B
2016-09-01Grant· $19.8M
2016-05-08Grant· $38M
Leadership Team
Christophe Weber
President and CEO
Schuyler Fairfield
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Supply Chain
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