Principal Data Architect, CMC Digital
Core
Design and steward enterprise data architecture to make CMC data usable, governable, and AI-ready at scale, bridging OT and IT data for Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain operations.
Role type
Principal Data Architect
Builds
Unified, event-driven data platforms connecting control systems and automation environments with enterprise data platforms
Domain
Pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotech, and regulated environments
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Data architecture design, integration patterns for OT/IT, data modeling (dimensional and ER), data governance and lineage, GxP compliance, architecture specifications, cloud data platform strategy, mentorship
Preferred skills
Veeva Quality/LabVantage/Syncade experience, SAP data domains, dbt/Snowflake/Redshift, metadata management, knowledge graphs/ontologies, architecture-as-code, AI-ready data architecture, GxP validation readiness
Technologies
dbt, Redshift, Snowflake, Veeva Quality, LabVantage, Syncade, SAP, MES, DCS, SCADA, historians, GitHub
Responsibilities
Define target-state data architecture with composability, implement integration patterns for real-time data flows, establish repeatable ingestion/transformation patterns, enforce data standards and metadata, design semantic structures for analytics and AI, codify architecture patterns as templates, inform cloud data platform decisions, mentor engineers and data product owners
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with significant autonomy and technical direction influence
