Associate Director, Study Data Services (Clinical Data)

Location: Hybrid; primary location in Rahway, New Jersey, USA. Available to residents of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Salary: $142,400–$224,100 per year for the primary location; annual bonus and long-term incentive may also apply.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and healthcare solutions and operates clinical development and data-management functions in a global organization.

What you will do

• Lead and develop programming and reporting teams, setting goals, assigning work, coaching performance, and managing recruiting and onboarding.
• Lead the design and deployment of clinical technology solutions for EDC, RTSM, and eCOA/ePRO systems, including programming, reporting, and data integration.
• Define and govern integration architecture, data sources, transformation workflows, data models, semantic layers, and curated datasets.
• Develop dashboards, listings, visual analytics, reusable components, role-based access, and automated validation solutions.
• Drive process optimization, release management, UAT, documentation, audit standards, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate cross-functional and global teams, resource planning, workload distribution, budgets, stakeholder alignment, and enterprise improvement programs.

Requirements

• Expert-level proficiency in technology languages such as SQL, Python, SAS, and R for clinical data collection, integration, transformation, and visualization.
• Experience architecting and integrating EDC platforms, data-integration environments, clinical operations systems, and cloud computing platforms.
• Experience with data-management and clinical operations tools for data capture, review, visualization, reconciliation, and reporting, including solution selection, configuration, or optimization.
• Experience with automation, scripting, digital solutions, data-quality checks, validation, system lifecycle activities, data privacy, and System Development Lifecycle Management.
• Strong understanding of clinical and regulatory data standards, clinical operational data models, metadata management, controlled terminologies such as MedDRA and WHODrug, FDA regulations, and GxP/ICH guidelines.
• Ability to interpret operational and quality metrics, use analytical or forecasting tools for capacity and scenario planning, and connect business outcomes to technical deliverables.
• Strong leadership, coaching, performance-management, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, partnership, and organizational-transformation skills in a matrixed global organization.
• Non-degree or associate's degree plus at least 10 years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree plus at least 8 years, or master's/doctorate plus at least 4 years, in clinical data programming, data engineering, data management, or clinical operations.
• At least 2 years of people-management experience and demonstrated deep subject-matter expertise in clinical development are required for all education paths.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with collaboration across global, onshore, offshore, and contingent resources.
• Medical, dental, vision, and other insurance benefits for employees and families.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, compassionate leave, and sick days.
• Inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives, respectful challenge, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Regular check-ins, annual reviews, career planning, training, mentoring, recognition, and promotion support.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the hirify.global careers site; current employees and contingent workers use the designated internal application routes.
• Residents of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico should use this posting; residents of other markets should use the applicable MSD Careers site.