Senior Clinical Data Consultant

Role: Senior Clinical Data Consultant

Location: Hyderabad :: Hybrid

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and drive clinical data product strategy aligned to business priorities, study requirements, and enterprise data objectives.
• Lead or support the design of scalable clinical data transformation approaches for an innovative pharmaceutical company, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, compliant, and sustainable.
• Translate complex business requirements into data product roadmaps, platform capabilities, and implementation plans.
• Partner with business, data, and technology stakeholders to define the target-state architecture and operating model for clinical data products.
• Leverage modern data lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks to enable efficient ingestion, transformation, storage, and access to clinical data.
• Oversee or contribute to data integration, ETL, and pipeline design using tools such as StreamSets and related technologies.
• Apply strong SQL and Oracle expertise to support data modeling, transformation logic, validation, and performance optimization.
• Ensure clinical data solutions support quality, traceability, governance, and regulatory expectations across the clinical data lifecycle.
• Collaborate across Clinical IT, product teams, data engineering teams, and business leaders to prioritize capabilities and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Provide strategic recommendations for process improvement, platform modernization, and data product innovation within the clinical domain.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience in clinical data, clinical IT, data engineering, or data product consulting within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry.
• Demonstrated experience working on clinical data transformation initiatives for an innovative pharmaceutical company.
• Proven experience shaping data product strategy to meet specific business and company requirements.
• Strong understanding of clinical data domains, data flows, and the broader clinical development landscape.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work across global and cross-functional teams.

Required Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with modern data lakehouse platforms, including Snowflake and Databricks.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Oracle technologies.
• Experience designing and managing ETL/data integration pipelines.
• Working knowledge of StreamSets or comparable ETL and data movement tools.
• Experience enabling scalable, high-quality clinical data pipelines and downstream data product consumption.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating in product-centric delivery models within Clinical IT or enterprise data organizations.
• Exposure to clinical data standards, governance practices, and regulated environments.
• Ability to influence strategy, drive alignment, and lead through ambiguity in a complex matrix organization.
• Strong consulting mindset with the ability to balance strategic thinking and execution.

Regards

Vibha Patel