Director, Research Data Foundation

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Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan New Jersey United States of America Spring House Pennsylvania United States of America Titusville New Jersey United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Director Research Data Systems to be located in Spring House PA; Raritan NJ; Titusville NJ or Beerse Belgium.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

Belgium: R-10434949

Remember whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers your applications will be considered as a single submission.

The Director Research Data Systems Innovative Medicines R&D is responsible for leading the research data technology capabilities that enable trusted governed and reusable data across the Research organization. The role will drive a major transformation to bring research data from fragmented systems instruments labs and (in silico) scientific workflows into a FAIR environment that accelerates discovery translational science analytics AI/GenAI and scientific decision-making.

This role partners across research functions lab informatics teams data product owners scientists data science/modeling teams governance leaders architecture cybersecurity and technology platform teams to run a research data operating model. The role translates research strategy FAIR principles scientific data needs and AI-readiness requirements into using scalable platforms metadata practices data services standards scorecards and operating routines.

The role is accountable for research data platforms research data ingestion FAIR metadata and cataloging scientific data quality and scorecards research master/reference data semantic interoperability data virtualization and research data products across Discovery laboratory sciences translational research computational biology chemistry biologics imaging omics screening and other research domains.

Key Responsibilities:

Research Data Ingestion and Curation Services

• Lead scalable data ingestion and curation platforms covering onboarding metadata enrichment pipeline engineering orchestration monitoring and issue resolution.
• Enable tools to standardise naming conventions identifiers provenance lineage ontologies vocabularies quality thresholds stewardship sharing and compliant scientific reuse.
• Partner with data product teams and scientists to ensure scientific context and data quality.
• Enable governed and performant access to distributed R&D data through scalable integration and data virtualization including federation semantic access security caching and performance optimization.

Research Data Quality Governance and FAIR Standards

• Define and operate research data quality and FAIR frameworks standards thresholds and executive reporting across priority research data domains.
• Partner with data owners stewards DDSAI product teams and business functions to establish quality rules ownership metadata expectations and FAIR acceptance criteria.
• Establish consistent automated monitoring and governance across diverse research data covering quality and completeness.
• Translate quality and FAIR insights into remediation priorities and measurable improvement roadmaps improving data readiness for analytics AI/GenAI computational modeling knowledge graphs translational science and scientific reuse.

Research Data Semantics Metadata and Master Data

• Lead research data catalog metadata ontology lineage and master/reference data capabilities to improve the findability context interoperability governance and reuse of research data.
• Establish consistent adoption of canonical research entities identifiers controlled vocabularies semantic standards metadata lineage and provenance across research platforms workflows pipelines and data products.
• Enable high-quality semantically consistent research data across compounds targets assays samples studies experiments instruments and other scientific domains to support analytics AI automation knowledge management and cross-study interoperability.

Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Life Sciences; advanced degree preferred.
• 10 years of progressive technology leadership experience with relevant focus.
• Solid experience in research data platform engineering scientific data architecture laboratory informatics or enterprise research data management.
• Good background in designing and implementing cloud-based FAIR data environments semantic and metadata capabilities and enterprise master/reference data solutions.
• Experience in life sciences healthcare biotech pharmaceuticals or other highly regulated environments preferred.
• Good understanding of FAIR data principles data product management data contracts research governance workflows privacy security compliance AI-ready data and platform operating models.
• Shown to successfully lead multi-functional teams and influence research leaders and scientists.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to translate complex data platform and governance topics into clear business decisions and outcomes.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Shown success building and operating enterprise-grade data solutions!
• Experience establishing operating models for governed reusable data assets.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with scientists data science analytics business and technology organizations.
• Experience handling critical data services with reliability targets operational metrics issue remediation cost optimization and service improvement routines.
• Consistent track record driving adoption of shared platforms common standards self-service patterns metadata practices governance workflows and data product lifecycle management.
• Strong executive influencing skills!

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Advanced Analytics Agility Jumps Data Engineering Data Governance Data Modeling Data Privacy Standards Data Quality Data Science Developing Others Execution Focus Hybrid Clouds Inclusive Leadership Leadership Program Management Stakeholder Engagement Succession Planning Technical Development Technologically Savvy

Required Experience:

Director