Associate Director Data Platform
Associate Director Data Platform
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The Role
Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team thats revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases. As an employee youll be part of a continually growing organization working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide contributing to global health initiatives. Modernas commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience with the potential to make a significant impact on patients lives worldwide.
Moderna is solidifying its presence within our international business services hub in Warsaw Poland a city renowned for its rich scientific and technological heritage. This hub provides critical functions meeting the growing demand of Modernas global business operations. Were inviting professionals from around the world to join our mission and contribute to the future of mRNA medicines.
We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Associate Director Data Platform to lead the design development and of a scalable modular and interoperable data platform. This role requires a deep technical background in cloud architecture data engineering AI integration and system design combined with strong leadership abilities to guide a crossfunctional team of engineers.
As the Associate Director you will define the platforms technical vision architecture and best practices ensuring seamless integration across core components including Data Lake Data Catalog SDKs AI services and Access Control. You will be responsible for mentoring and aligning a team of experts in backend engineering DevOps data engineering and AI/ML driving innovation while maintaining best practices in scalability security and governance.
Heres What Youll Do
Your key responsibilities will be:
Define and drive the technical strategy architecture and roadmap for the data platform ensuring modularity interoperability and scalability.
Lead endtoend design decisions for core platform components including Data Lake Data Catalog Data Versioning SDKs Access Control and AI Services.
Ensure adherence to best practices for system design security performance and governance.
Oversee the development of SDKs for scalable data ingestion transformation and access APIs.
Ensure robust data governance access control and security frameworks that meet compliance requirements.
Your responsibilities will also include:
Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers Backend Engineers DevOps Engineers and AI/ML Engineers fostering a culture of collaboration technical excellence and continuous learning.
Align crossfunctional stakeholders on development priorities sprint planning and .
Drive a DevOps and CI/CD culture ensuring reliability observability and cost optimization.
Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to enable AIpowered workflow automation and data analytics.
Drive the adoption of bestinclass data versioning schema management and metadata governance practices.
Take ownership of additional responsibilities as needed.
The key Moderna Mindsets youll need to succeed in the role:
We digitize everywhere possible You will be at the forefront of Modernas digital transformation building a cuttingedge data platform that integrates seamlessly with AIdriven analytics and automation.
We behave like owners You will lead and drive the evolution of Modernas data infrastructure ensuring scalability security and efficiency while mentoring and guiding a highperforming technical team.
Heres What Youll Need (Basic Qualifications)
Technical Expertise
7 years of experience in software engineering data engineering or cloud architecture
experience with AWS cloudnative design and Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi).
Data Engineering: Expertise in Data Lakes (AWS Lake Formation Iceberg) metadata management (Glue Catalog) and data versioning (DVC).
Backend & API Development: Strong understanding of API design microservices (Kubernetes Docker) authentication (OAuth RBAC ABAC).
AI & ML Integration: Familiarity with AIdriven data pipelines vector databases LLMs (LangChain OpenAI PyTorch).
Security & Governance: Experience with IAM finegrained access control data privacy and compliance best practices.
Leadership &
At least 3 years in a leadership role.
Ability to balance strategic vision with handson in a fastpaced agile environment.
Strong crossfunctional collaboration skills with the ability to align engineering AI/ML and data teams toward common goals.
Experience driving DevOps best practices CI/CD automation and cost optimization in cloud environments.
Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)
Prior experience building and scaling modular interoperable data platforms.
Strong knowledge of modern AI/ML frameworks data governance tools (Collibra) and observability platforms (Datadog).
A desire to make an impact as part of a highgrowth transformational company that is Bold Relentless Curious and Collaborative.
At Moderna we believe that when you feel your best you can do your best work. Thats why our global benefits and wellbeing resources are designed to support youat work at home and everywhere in between.
- Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
- Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to wellbeing
- Free premium access to fitness nutrition and mindfulness classes
- Family planning and adoption benefits
- Generous paid time off including vacation bank holidays volunteer days sabbatical global recharge days and a discretionary yearend shutdown
- Savingsandinvestments
- Locationspecific perks and extras!
The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.
About Moderna
Since our founding in 2010 we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform theinfrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered and a worldclass team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.
By living our mission values and mindsets every day our peopleare the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture.Together we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients our employees the environment and our communities.
We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.
As we build our company we have always believed an inperson culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of inoffice collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70 inoffice structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation teamwork and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn contribute and make a meaningful impact.
If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine we invite you to visit modernatx/careers to learn more about our current opportunities.
Moderna is a smokefree alcoholfree and drugfree work environment.
Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day please apply!
Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry or citizenship ethnicity disability military or protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital or familial status or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
Were focused on attracting retaining developing and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences backgrounds and ideas we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best.
Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodation or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at .
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