Title: Technical Data Architect
Location: Bay Area, CA (Onsite)
Experience: 8+ years
Role Summary
Seeking an experienced Technical Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of cloud-based commercial data lake/ platforms implementation. This role partners closely with Commercial business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure scalable, compliant, and high-quality data solutions supporting pharmaceutical commercial use cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Own technical architecture and technical design of cloud data lakes/data warehouses using Databricks with Azure or AWS
- Act as technical product owner for commercial data platforms, managing roadmap and priorities
- Translate commercial pharma requirements into scalable data solutions
- lead new innovations and technical POCs
- Enable analytics and reporting across Sales, Marketing, Market Access, and Commercial Operations
- Ensure alignment with data governance, security, and compliance standards
- Manage client relationship
- Partner with offshore data engineering teams to deliver high-quality data pipelines
- Participate and drive business development activities
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in data architecture, Azure Services, or building enterprise data platforms
- Strong hands on experience with Databricks + Azure or AWS services
- Proven experience in data management skills
- Strong understanding of pharma commercial data domains
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in managing cross -functional teams
- Have good exposure to business development activities (i.e., creating proposals, SoW, POV etc.)
- Understand MDM concepts and processes
- Good exposure on data quality frameworks
- Experience in designing the data models based on business requirements
Tool/Tech Stack: Azure/AWS Services + Pyspark + CI/CD pipelines, Data Architecture and data management using Databricks
Soft Skills: Stakeholder management, program delivery, presenting POVs to client senior stakeholders, Good communication skills
