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For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer - working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.\nEvery member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.\nWe believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfill their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.\nJob Description\nJob Description\nGilead's mission is to discover, develop, and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses worldwide. Gilead Sciences is seeking an Associate Director, Advanced Analytics to lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of advanced analytics capabilities within the Data Science Development Systems team. This role is responsible for shaping and executing the technology roadmap for analytics platforms, data science enablement, GenAI solutions that support clinical development and broader business priorities. The role will provide strategic and technical leadership to cross-functional teams, partner closely with business and technology stakeholders, and guide engineering teams in delivering scalable, compliant, and high-impact solutions.\nSpecific duties, job functions:\nDefine and execute the advanced analytics technology strategy, translating business priorities into scalable, compliant, and high-value analytics solutions.\nLead the business and technology vision for GenAI and advanced analytics initiatives, including trial protocol digitization, large-scale medical imaging analytics, and other emerging data science capabilities.\nOwn the open-source strategy for advanced analytics, evaluating and governing open-source tools, frameworks, and communities to speed innovation while maintaining security, compliance, sustainability, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.\nPartner with IT and enterprise technology leaders to define and align the overall AI and analytics strategy, ensuring clear prioritization, architectural consistency, governance, and delivery of capabilities that support development and broader business objectives.\nProvide leadership and oversight to engineering and analytics delivery teams, ensuring effective execution of key initiatives, alignment with stakeholder needs, and delivery of robust, enterprise-ready solutions.\nBasic Qualifications\nB.S. or advanced degree in a technical, scientific, or quantitative discipline, with significant experience leading advanced analytics, data science, or enterprise analytics technology capabilities.\nDemonstrated ability to translate complex business, clinical, and scientific needs into strategic analytics solutions across advanced analytics, and data science domains.\nStrong ability to integrate deep functional expertise, technical judgment, and life sciences domain knowledge to influence strategy, investment decisions, and delivery priorities.\nProven experience leading technical, engineering, or analytics teams, including setting direction, developing talent, and driving execution through ambiguity.\nExtensive experience delivering scalable, secure, and compliant cloud-native analytics platforms, including use of Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and modern software engineering practices.\nWorking knowledge of modern analytics technologies, including R, Python, relational databases, cloud data platforms, data lakes, lakehouses, open table formats, and data science enablement tools, with an ability to guide technical teams and assess architectural trade-offs.\nDemonstrated leadership in developing and operationalizing AI, machine learning, or GenAI capabilities, including establishing governance, prioritizing high-value use cases, and guiding teams in responsible, compliant adoption.\nExperience establishing and scaling MLOps practices, including model lifecycle management, deployment automation, monitoring, governance, and cross-functional operating models that enable reliable and compliant production use of machine learning solutions.\nProficiency in Git and agile development methodologies.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in the biotech/life sciences industry, or another highly regulated industry. \nUnderstanding of drug development phases and the nature of associated clinical trials across phases. \nFamiliarity with Machine Learning workflows and MLOps. \nExperience with High Performance Computing technology. \nExperience with Databricks and AWS.\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO)\nIt is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively \"Gilead\" or the \"Company\") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). 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