When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.
Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.
Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. We believe in our values, Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.
This role will work within our innovative Data & Technology group that continues to evolve to meet business needs, fuel Parexel's growth and enable improved support for stakeholders, including customers and ultimately patients, who will benefit from Parexel's integrated processes and systems.
This role can be based in the UK, Poland or Romania and can be fully home based and remote working anywhere in any of these locations only.
As the Director, Data Engineering - RWD is a domain-aligned technical execution leader with predominant experience in life sciences, clinical research, and Real-World Data, responsible for orchestrating and driving delivery across Data Ingestion, Data Engineering, and Data Distribution for RWD and related enterprise data products.
This is a strong individual contributor role with no direct line management authority, however it requires strong matrixed leadership, technical credibility, and influence across data engineering, Clinical Operations, Commercial, and broader business stakeholders to ensure that life sciences data priorities are translated into executable plans and delivered with consistency, transparency, regulatory awareness, and measurable impact.
You will partner with Data and Technology, the Data and Analytics CoE, Clinical Operations, Commercial, business domain stakeholders, platform teams, governance partners, and delivery teams to translate life sciences and Real-World Data needs into executable engineering priorities.
You will lead intake management, roadmap shaping, prioritization, dependency management, stakeholder alignment, delivery governance, and value tracking, while establishing clear ownership, managing dependencies, coordinating delivery sequencing, and ensuring trusted, high-quality, governed, and reusable data assets are available for analytics, AI enablement, operational reporting, regulatory-aligned use cases, and sponsor-facing distribution.
