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At Worldwide Clinical Trials, we're driven by a shared commitment to improving lives through high-quality clinical research. Our teams are empowered to think creatively, take ownership, and deliver meaningful work that helps bring life-changing therapies to patients around the world.\nWith more than 4,000 professionals across the globe, we foster a collaborative and inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, growth is encouraged, and every contribution makes an impact. Whether you're building your career or bringing years of experience, you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and help shape the future of clinical research.\nSUMMARY: Data Product Engineer will lead the technical evolution of our data assets into high-value, AI-ready products. In this role, you will merge the operational rigor of DataOps with a product-centric mindset, ensuring that our data is discoverable, highly governed, and optimized for Generative AI and Agentic AI workflows. Data Product Engineer will be responsible for the production readiness of our data, including governance and master data management, ensuring that data products supporting data intelligence, analytics, Generative AI, and Agentic AI are governed, reliable, and scalable, while also owning the end-to-end lifecycle from ingestion through master data management to secure consumption via Unity Catalog.\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\nTasks may include but are not limited to:\nData Governance & Master Data Management (MDM)\n\nLead the technical implementation of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions to establish the \"Golden Record\" for clinical trials, ensuring consistency across disparate data sources.\n\nEnforce Data Governance policies through automated \"policy-as-code\" within the data product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with global clinical regulations.\n\nUtilize Databricks Unity Catalog to provide centralized access control, rigorous auditing, and end-to-end data lineage across the entire Azure tenant.\n\nCollaborate with data stewards to automate the identification and remediation of sensitive data (PII/PHI) within the data lakehouse.\n\nData Product Engineering & AI Readiness\n\nTreat data as a formal product by defining and maintaining SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for data quality and availability across the clinical enterprise.\n\nEngineer API-based integrations that allow data products to be seamlessly consumed by internal applications, LLMs, and external partners.\n\nEnsuring high-quality metadata and are including in data products and available for Generative AI applications.\n\nDataOps Mastery (Data Kitchen & IBM Best Practices)\n\nArchitect the Data Kitchen \"Innovation Pipeline\" to allow for the rapid, automated deployment of new data features without compromising production stability.\n\nImplement IBM DataOps best practices by creating a unified data virtualization and governance layer that drastically reduces data silos.\n\nAutomate the \"Value Pipeline\" using CI/CD for data to ensure that data products are continuously monitored for quality and statistical drift.\n\nFoster a culture of \"observability\" where automated testing is a required part of the data product (governance, MDM) pipeline.\n\nPerform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.\nOTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:\nCloud Infrastructure: Advanced expertise in the Azure ecosystem, including Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, and Azure Key Vault.\n\nDatabricks Stack: Mastery of Databricks, specifically Unity Catalog for governance and Delta Lake for resilient data lakehouse architecture.\n\nModern Integration: Strong proficiency in PySpark, SQL, and building/consuming RESTful APIs for data exchange programmatic workflow scheduling using Apache Airflow, Databricks Lakeflow, or Prefect.\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\nExperience: 3+ years in master data management, data governance technology, and/or data engineering with at least 2 years focused specifically on architecting DataOps, data governance, and/or master data management frameworks and platforms.\n\nGovernance & MDM: Proven experience building MDM frameworks and implementing automated data governance tools in a regulated environment.\n\nPromotion to the next level is not automatic based on years of experience. Personnel are evaluated on proven competency, level of responsibility, and ability to work independently.\nDiscover the Difference\nWe love knowing that someone is going to have a better life because of the work we do. Discover the Difference at Worldwide Clinical Trials. 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