DT Lead - Commercial Data Engineering & Data Product
UCB Pharma12 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$148k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the lifecycle, roadmap, adoption, quality, service measures, and retirement decisions for U.S. Commercial data products.
- Lead Commercial Data Engineering teams and third-party partners responsible for data onboarding, integration, transformation, publishing, and production support.
- Define architecture and engineering standards for data quality, contracts, lineage, security, testing, observability, governance, and operational readiness.
- Deliver scalable Azure and Databricks data solutions using automation, reusable frameworks, metadata-driven ingestion, and enterprise semantic models.
- Ensure interoperability among Databricks, Fabric, Snowflake, Power BI, and future enterprise platforms.
- Lead technology delivery across customer, HCP/HCO, claims, payer, specialty pharmacy, patient services, omnichannel, territory, and master data domains.
- Drive reliability, performance, cost efficiency, incident management, release management, runbooks, service-level expectations, and build-to-run governance.
- Enable governed data foundations for machine learning, RAG, Databricks Genie, copilots, agents, feature engineering, retrieval pipelines, and model integration.
- Communicate technical risks and tradeoffs to business and senior stakeholders while building long-term organizational capability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of progressive data engineering or cloud data platform experience, including technical leadership of complex enterprise delivery and operations.
- Experience in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with commercial data domains such as claims, HCP/customer, payer, patient services, specialty pharmacy, omnichannel, territory, or master data.
- Hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks or AWS/Google Cloud, including Python, SQL, Spark, Delta Lake or lakehouse patterns, orchestration, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience delivering trusted data products for Power BI/Fabric, advanced analytics, machine learning, RAG, copilots, or agent-enabled applications.
- Experience designing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, metadata-driven ingestion, reusable transformation frameworks, and automated data-quality controls.
- Demonstrated data product experience covering product definition, ownership, consumer alignment, data contracts, quality and service measures, roadmap management, adoption, and lifecycle decisions.
- Experience with Unity Catalog or comparable governance capabilities, including access controls, metadata, lineage, classification, and environment promotion.
- Experience with Git-based development, CI/CD, release controls, automated testing, observability, and incident management.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and GenAI data requirements, including features, RAG or vector data, model and agent integration, telemetry, security, and supportability.
- Experience leading engineers and third-party partners and communicating technical risks and tradeoffs to business and senior stakeholders.
Benefits
- The role is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with an on-site/hybrid arrangement.
- UCB follows a hybrid-first approach, generally expecting 40% of work time in the office unless the position requires otherwise.
- UCB offers a caring, supportive, inclusive, and collaborative culture with opportunities for professional growth and career development.
About UCB Pharma
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes medicines for serious neurological and immunological diseases. Its portfolio includes epilepsy therapies such as Keppra and Briviact, Cimzia for inflammatory conditions, and Bimzelx for psoriasis, sold through healthcare providers and payers. Founded in 1928 and headquartered in Brussels, it operates worldwide with manufacturing and quality operations, including a site in Saitama, Japan.