Associate Director - Engineering-Future Role (India)

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Associate Director - Engineering-Future Role (India) Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®. Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know. WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. Job Responsibilities Engineering Leadership Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable, cloud‑based data platforms including data lakes, data warehouses, and streaming architectures Own end‑to‑end data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines (batch and streaming) from source systems to curated analytics layers Establish and enforce engineering standards for performance, reliability, security, testing, and operational excellence Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for availability, scalability, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand data needs and translate them into scalable technical designs Contribute to enterprise data architecture standards, reference architectures, and long‑term platform strategy Support analytics, reporting, and data science teams by enabling trusted, well‑modeled, and accessible data assets & data dictionaries Adopt the use of AI where applicable to enhance and support our client delivery needs. People & Delivery Management Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers through coaching, career planning, and performance management Build high‑performing teams using modern engineering practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing) Plan and manage delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives, balancing roadmap priorities, capacity, and technical debt Partner with vendors and contract resources as needed to support delivery goals Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience) 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform development, or data‑centric systems 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, projects, and technical roadmaps Strong experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, AWS) and modern data stack technologies Proficiency with SQL and at least one programming language commonly used in data engineering (e.g., Python, Spark) Demonstrated experience designing and operating large‑scale data ingestion and transformation pipelines. Preferred Qualification Experience in regulated or compliance‑driven environments (e.g., life sciences, healthcare, pharma)Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, MDM, and data quality practice Experience supporting analytics, BI, and data science workload Strong executive‑level communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non‑technical stakeholder Experience contributing to enterprise architecture or platform transformation initiatives We are always excited to connect with great talent. This posting is intended for a [possible] upcoming opportunity rather than a live role. By expressing your interest, you'll be added to our talent pipeline and considered should this role become available. Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com Additional Information Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Eq

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