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Lead Data Platform Architect
Location
Netherlands
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Data Platform Architect
Belmont Lavan
• Design, build, and govern cloud-based data platforms that turn heterogeneous, multi-country life-sciences data into trusted, reusable data products. • The role spans clinical trial data, real-world data (RWD), and omics — harmonising these into standardised, regulatory-grade, analysis-ready assets. • Combines hands-on engineering on Azure and Databricks with technical leadership of a multidisciplinary team.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years in data engineering, with substantial Life Sciences / pharmaceutical experience.
- Proven delivery of cloud data platforms on Azure and Databricks; familiarity with Microsoft Fabric.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, plus ETL/ELT orchestration (Azure Data Factory).
- Hands-on experience with CDISC standards (SDTM, ADaM) and clinical data workflows.
- Relational and non-relational stores: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
- Data governance, access control, and sensitive/anonymised data handling.
- Team leadership and Agile delivery (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).
- __Preferred (Nice-to-Have)__
- OMOP CDM and real-world data standardisation experience.
- Omics / bioinformatics data and large-scale scientific datasets.
- Graph databases (Neo4j) and knowledge-graph modelling.
- BI & visualisation: Power BI, Metabase, Streamlit.
- Certifications (Preferred) Databricks Certified Data Engineer (Associate / Professional) Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer / Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate Neo4j Certified Professional Professional Scrum Master (PSM I / II)
- __Soft Skills__
- Cross-functional collaboration with scientific and business stakeholders.
- Clear communication of technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Multilingual capability for global study support (an asset).
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