Job Details

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