Pharmaceutical Data Engineering Manager
Summary
Data Operations Manager at Alexion Pharmaceuticals bridging business needs and technical delivery for commercial and patient-level pharma data. Day to day: design pipelines and reusable data models, define quality controls, lineage, and validation evidence, and coordinate engineers and vendors. Core stack: SQL and Snowflake.
Shape pharmaceutical data products through SQL, pipeline troubleshooting, and quality controls while balancing office collaboration with individual flexibility. Support dependable operations.
Alexion seeks a Data Operations Manager to connect business needs with technical delivery across commercial and patient-level data. You will define business rules, lineage, validation evidence, and release requirements while coordinating engineers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders. Your work will support trusted downstream reporting and operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design reusable models and pipelines from ingestion through curated products
- Define data quality controls, lineage, release validation, and documentation
- Trace records across source files, transformations, and downstream outputs
- Translate technical issues into business terms and actionable decisions
- Maintain mappings, dictionaries, runbooks, and compliance evidence
Requirements:
- At least five years in data operations, engineering, or management
- Strong SQL, complex joins, profiling, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis
- Practical Snowflake knowledge including schemas, stages, roles, and performance
- Ability to read code, technical designs, mappings, and architecture diagrams
- Experience writing requirements, acceptance criteria, and validation evidence
Bring pharmaceutical data engineering judgment, Snowflake capability, and quality discipline to Alexion’s trusted commercial data environment.