[Remote] Senior Director, Data and Analytics

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy is the nation’s largest rare disease pharmacy, dedicated to providing high-quality outcomes for patients. The Senior Director, Data & Analytics will lead the data layer, overseeing engineering, analytics, and governance to drive data analytics initiatives that support pharmacy operations and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Leads data engineers and analytics professionals, fostering a culture of respect, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Sets and enforces the technical architecture for the Databricks platform, including medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and structured streaming ingress patterns
• Owns the delivery of the Enterprise Data Warehouse, including scalable data pipelines, data models, and ETL processes
• Drives analytics initiatives by partnering with data scientists, analysts, and business leaders to scope, prioritize, and deliver high-impact data projects
• Collaborates cross-functionally with product owners, pharmacists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable data solutions and insights
• Ensures platform reliability and performance, including optimization of Azure services and Databricks environments for cost-efficiency and scalability
• Establishes and enforces data governance, quality standards, and compliance protocols (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2) across engineering and analytics workflows
• Establishes quality and observability standards across the data platform, including pipeline monitoring, anomaly detection, and data reliability reporting
• Maintains comprehensive documentation of data infrastructure, analytics workflows, and operational standards
• Champions a data-driven culture, enabling self-service analytics and empowering stakeholders with trusted, timely insights

Skills

• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics, or data platform leadership, with at least 3 years owning a data organization at a director or equivalent level
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Databricks, including medallion architecture, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse patterns in production environments
• Demonstrated experience leading analytics engineering functions, not just data engineering or BI in isolation; understands and can articulate the semantic layer as a distinct discipline
• Strong proficiency in SQL, PySpark, and/or Python; sufficient to evaluate architecture decisions and code quality without being hands-on daily
• Proven experience with Azure cloud services, especially Azure Event Hubs, Azure Databricks, and Azure Data Lake
• Demonstrated ability to build and develop senior engineering talent, including manager-level hiring and career development
• Executive presence and communication skills to represent the data function at the executive leadership level and present cost transformation, platform health, and delivery metrics to senior executives
• Healthcare, specialty pharmacy, or regulated industry experience, with exposure to clinical or operational data environments
• Experience with data contract standards (ODCS or equivalent) and pipeline observability platforms (Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo Data, or similar)
• Familiarity with enterprise data catalog tooling (Atlan, Collibra, Alation, or equivalent) and data product marketplace design
• Experience partnering with data governance and QA functions to operationalize quality standards in pipeline validation
• Exposure to AI/ML platform integration: understanding how data engineering and analytics engineering decisions affect model input quality
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Hybrid, remote and flexible on-site work schedules are available, based on the position.
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts
• 401K with employer matching
• Employer-paid life insurance and short/long term disability coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous paid time off is also available to all full-time employees, as well as limited paid time off for part-time employees
• Paid holidays

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