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Celebrating over 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 38,000 trials and 12 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million registered users across approximately 2,300 customers trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. A Dassault Systèmes brand (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has been recognized as a Leader by Everest Group and IDC. Discover more at www.medidata.com. Listen to our latest podcast, from Dreamers to Disruptors, and follow us at @Medidata.\nThe Role:\nYou will define the technical direction for Medidata's Platform engineering organization - the systems, infrastructure, and practices that power clinical trial operations for the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. You set architectural direction across multiple teams and time horizons, translate business strategy into durable technical capabilities, and develop the Staff and Senior Staff engineers who execute within that direction.\nThe platform is in the middle of a fundamental shift. AI and agentic systems are moving from experimental features to core infrastructure. You will be the architectural authority for how this transformation plays out - not within a single team, but across every team that builds on the platform. You will determine where AI agents operate in production workflows and where humans must remain, define the cost, quality, and reliability trade-offs at scale, and establish the engineering practices and standards required to build and operate AI-native systems responsibly.\nWhat You'll Do:\nArchitectural Direction & Technical Strategy\nDefine the long-term technical vision for the platform - service architecture, data strategy, infrastructure evolution, and AI integration across all platform teams\nOwn architectural trade-offs that span multiple systems, teams, and time horizons - balancing velocity, cost, reliability, risk, and long-term sustainability. This includes explicit investment decisions on AI adoption: model selection, build-vs-buy for AI infrastructure, and ROI frameworks for agentic automation\nTranslate business strategy and product direction into technical capabilities that are durable, not reactive\nEvaluate, validate, and institutionalize new technologies and practices. You decide what enters the platform's technical foundation and what doesn't\nDefine quality bars, architectural guardrails, production excellence standards, and engineering talent expectations at the organizational level\nAI & Agentic Systems - Platform-Wide\nOwn the architectural vision for how AI and agentic capabilities are embedded across the platform - as a fundamental layer of how every team builds and operates, not a standalone initiative\nDefine the organizational framework for agent autonomy: where AI agents operate with full autonomy, where human oversight is required, and how those boundaries evolve as systems mature - spanning production workflows, development processes, and operational tooling\nShape the platform's observability and production readiness standards for AI-powered systems - cost telemetry, dual-pipeline tracing, failure mode classification, fallback mechanisms, and incident response patterns specific to agentic workloads\nDrive the architectural standards that make platform systems AI-ready: well-documented APIs, deterministic interfaces, observable behavior, and safe patterns for automated interaction\nSDLC Transformation & Engineering Practice\nDefine and institutionalize agentic development as an engineering practice across the organization - not just tool adoption, but how software is designed, reviewed, tested, and deployed when AI agents are part of the workflow\nEstablish measurement frameworks for engineering transformation: developer throughput, cost per automated decision, quality impact, and where AI augmentation creates value versus risk\nOwn the architectural direction for CI/CD evolution - intelligent pipelines, AI-assisted code review, automated testing, and deployment automation\nChallenge and reshape engineering processes that don't survive the shift to AI-augmented development\nTechnical Leadership\nDevelop technical leaders - Staff and Senior Staff engineers are your primary mentorship scope. Shape how they think about architecture, trade-offs, and organizational impact\nRepresent the platform's technical direction to executive leadership, product, architecture, and external stakeholders. Create narratives that connect technology decisions to business outcomes. Influence across organizational boundaries without positional authority\nShape engineering culture and decision-making frameworks that allow teams to reason through ambiguous technical decisions without escalating to you\nRequirements:\n15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time defining architectural direction across multiple teams and systems\n3+ years in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent architectural leadership role\nProven track record translating business strategy into durable technical capabilities - defining what should be built and why, not just executing what was asked for\nDeep architectural expertise across backend systems, data infrastructure, cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred), and distributed systems at scale\nDirect experience with AI/ML systems in production - hands-on understanding of LLM integration patterns, agentic systems, and the architectural implications of embedding AI into platform infrastructure\nDemonstrated experience driving agentic development practices - you've formed strong, experience-based opinions on how AI tools transform software engineering workflows. You can define adoption strategy for an organization, not just use the tools yourself\nTrack record of developing technical leaders at the Staff/Sr Staff level\nAbility to communicate strategy, trade-offs, and risk to executives and engineering teams, and to drive alignment across teams with competing priorities\nStrongly Preferred:\nExperience with agent orchestration patterns, autonomy frameworks, and the architectural decisions around where AI agents should and shouldn't operate in production\nProduction experience in regulated industries (life sciences, healthcare, fintech) - understanding of compliance, audit, and data integrity constraints\nExperience with SDLC transformation at organizational scale - reshaping how teams build, test, and deploy software\nBackground spanning multiple technical domains (backend, data, infrastructure, AI) rather than deep specialization in one\nNice to Have:\nExperience with clinical trial operations, life sciences, or regulated SaaS platforms\nExternal technical influence - conference talks, open-source contributions, published architectural thinking, or industry working groups\nAs with all roles, Medidata sets ranges based on a number of factors including function, level, candidate expertise and experience, and geographic location.\nThe salary range for positions that will be physically based in the NYC Metro Area is $184,500-246,000\nThe salary range for positions that will be physically based in the California Bay Area is $194,250-259,000.\nThe salary range for positions that will be physically based in the Boston Metro Area is $181,500-242,000.\nThe salary range for positions that will be physically based in Texas or Ohio is $162,000-216,000.\nThe salary range for positions that will be physically based in all other locations within the United States is $165,000-220,000.\nBase pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; 401(k) matching; unlimited paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.\nEqual Employment Opportunity:\nIn order toprovide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Medidata are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Medidata is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Medidata will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.\nApplications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nInclusion statement\nIn order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at 3DS are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. 3DS is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age (40 and above), disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. 3DS will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.\nQualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state laws and local ordinances. We are committed to fair employment practices and will evaluate all candidates based on their qualifications, regardless of past arrest or conviction history.\n Salary Pay Transparency\nCompensation for the role will be commensurate with experience. 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