Associate Director, Data Engineering & Analytics

Location: Remote in Canada

Company

hirify.global, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, develops data platforms that support clinical trial data and clinical science.

What you will do

• Lead enterprise data engineering, integration, data warehouse, analytics engineering, and API services.
• Own end-to-end engineering delivery across development, testing, validation, deployment, and production support.
• Set engineering standards for data modeling, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, observability, and documentation.
• Modernize legacy platforms, reduce technical debt, and manage migration and retirement plans aligned with the NxT.Lumen strategy.
• Ensure production reliability through monitoring, SLAs, incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Lead global delivery capacity, budgets, vendors, technical roadmaps, risk management, and development of a high-performing team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data engineering, software engineering, integration, or data warehousing, including 5+ years leading engineering teams, distributed or global teams preferred.
• Strong technical experience with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Talend, Airflow, Python, SQL, APIs, and ETL/ELT.
• Experience managing end-to-end engineering delivery, enterprise production platforms, and legacy modernization.
• Experience establishing CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and engineering standards.
• Experience managing technical roadmaps, budgets, resources, and vendors.
• Working knowledge of data privacy, security, and technology risk.
• Experience with regulated SDLC, computer-system validation (CSV), SOPs, and audit readiness.
• SAFe or scaled-agile experience, plus AI-enabled engineering and automation experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Life sciences, clinical research, pharma, CRO, or healthcare experience.
• Knowledge of clinical data transfer and integration standards.
• Databricks Lakehouse/Unity Catalog and modern DataOps experience.
• Legacy data warehouse and ETL modernization experience.
• Customer-facing SaaS experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with global teams across clinical science, technology, and customer-facing functions.
• Support hirify.global’s purpose of unlocking better evidence and helping bring life-changing therapies to patients faster.
• Follow hirify.global SOPs, SDLC, validation requirements, audit remediation, data governance, lineage, MDM, and security standards.