Associate Director, Data Engineering
Core
Lead the data engineering team to build and maintain an AI-native data platform supporting clinical operations, asset evaluation, and company decision-making.
Role type
Senior IC manager (Associate Director)
Builds
Data pipelines, data warehouse, and data products
Domain
Biotech / Clinical Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Engineering management, Data platform architecture, AI tooling (LLMs, agentic coding), Snowflake, Orchestration (Dagster/Airflow), Transformation (dbt), Python, SQL, Data governance, Cloud infrastructure (Terraform/OpenTofu)
Preferred skills
Experience with regulated/sensitive data (clinical, PHI), Batch and streaming tradeoffs
Technologies
Snowflake, Dagster, Airflow, dbt, Python, SQL, Docker, GitHub, Terraform, OpenTofu
Responsibilities
Hire, coach, and develop a team of data engineers; Set technical direction and roadmap for data engineering; Partner with stakeholders on pipeline design and delivery; Oversee architecture and maintenance of the data platform; Ensure strong data quality, observability, and documentation practices; Own data governance practices for regulated data; Review and provide feedback on design documents; Drive knowledge sharing and mentoring; Own team support rotation for incidents; Manage team budgeting and resourcing.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC manager
