Associate Director, Data Platforms

Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) a serious liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis liver failure need for liver transplantation and premature mortality. Every member of our Madrigal team is connected by our shared purpose: leading the fight against MASH.

Madrigals medication Rezdiffra (resmetirom) is a once-daily oral liver-directed THR-β agonist designed to target key underlying causes of MASH. Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3). An ongoing Phase 3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c).

Our success is driven by our people. We are building a dynamic inclusive and high-performing culture that values scientific excellence operational rigor and collaboration. To support our continued growth we are strengthening our workforce strategy to ensure we have the right talent at the right time in the right way.

Reporting to Executive Director of Data and Analytics as Associate Director of Data Platforms you will own the enterprise data platform strategy architecture and execution with a strong focus on Microsoft Fabric. This role is responsible for designing and operating a scalable secure and globally available data platform that supports analytical and operational data products. The AD will ensure platform reliability (SLAs) performance governance and cost efficiency while enabling teams to build trusted data pipelines and reusable data products.

This role partners closely with Data Engineering Analytics AI/ML Cloud Security and Business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Platform Architecture & Strategy

Own the end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architecture including Lakehouse Data Warehouse OneLake Data Pipelines Notebooks Real-Time Analytics and Power BI integration.

Define and maintain reference architectures design standards and best practices for enterprise data platforms.

Drive global multi-region scalability resiliency and performance of the data platform.

Lead platform modernization migrations and roadmap evolution aligned to business needs.

2. Platform Operations & SLAs

Own platform SLAs SLOs and operational KPIs (availability latency data freshness cost).

Establish monitoring alerting incident management and on-call processes.

Ensure high availability disaster recovery and business continuity for critical data workloads.

Manage platform capacity planning performance tuning and cost optimization.

3. Data Pipelines & Engineering Enablement

Provide architectural oversight for batch and streaming data pipelines built on Fabric.

Define patterns for ingestion transformation orchestration and data quality.

Enable CI/CD automation and Infrastructure-as-Code for platform components.

Partner with data engineering teams to ensure pipelines are reliable scalable and reusable.

4. Governance Security & Compliance

Define and enforce data governance security and access control within Fabric.

Implement metadata management lineage auditing and data classification.

Ensure compliance with regulatory privacy and enterprise security requirements.

Partner closely with the Cyber Security and Risk teams to ensure the data platform complies with enterprise security standards policies and controls.

Ensure Microsoft Fabric architecture aligns with identity access management encryption network security and data protection standards.

Support security reviews threat modeling audits and remediation activities for the data platform.

5. Leadership & Collaboration

Act as a technical leader and mentor for platform and data engineering teams.

Partner with Cloud Security Enterprise Architecture and Application teams.

Collaborate closely with Analytics leaders to enable scalable reliable data pipelines and curated datasets that support enterprise reporting and insights.

Partner with Data Science and Advanced Analytics teams to ensure the platform supports future-ready analytical AI/ML and experimentation use cases

Influence stakeholders and leadership through clear communication of platform strategy and trade-offs.

Contribute to vendor engagement and evaluation (Microsoft tooling ecosystem).

Required Qualifications

10-12 years of experience in data engineering data platforms or cloud architecture.

Strong 2 hands-on and architectural experience with Microsoft Fabric (or 8 deep experience in Azure data services with Fabric adoption).

Proven experience designing and operating large-scale enterprise data platforms.

Experience owning platform SLAs reliability and operational excellence.

Strong understanding of data pipelines Lakehouse architecture and data warehousing.

Experience with global / multi-region deployments and enterprise security models.

Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in product-oriented data platforms or data mesh implementations.

Familiarity with DevOps / DataOps CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Experience supporting AI/ML and advanced analytics workloads.

Prior leadership experience managing senior engineers or platform teams.

Competencies

Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate business priorities into an actionable analytics strategy.

Analytical Excellence: Demonstrates strong quantitative skills and ensures rigor transparency and clarity in insights.

Influence & Communication: Communicates complex concepts simply shapes decisions and engages senior leadership effectively.

Collaboration: Works effectively across functions and builds strong partnerships.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Drives modernization automation and adoption of new technologies.

Results Orientation: Delivers high-quality work manages competing priorities and operates with a bias

toward action.

Madrigal offers a competitive Total Rewards strategy to attract and retain top talent and is inclusive of base pay bonus equity and a generous benefits package. Full-time employees are eligible for base salary bonus equity and a comprehensive benefits suite.

Base salary is determined by several factors including the candidates qualifications skills education experience business needs and market demands. As of the date of this posting a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position applicable to all candidates is $177000 - $216000 per year. We comply with all applicable minimum wage laws.

All full-time employees receive equity which reinforces our ownership culture and offers meaningful opportunity for our employees to share in the success they help create. By aligning individual and company performance we empower employees to think like owners giving them a stake in the organization.

Full-time employees are also eligible for comprehensive benefits including flexible paid time off medical dental vision and life/disability insurance and 401(k) offerings (i.e. traditional Roth and employer match) in accordance with applicable plans. We also offer additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life insurance legal services and other addition we offer mental health benefits through our Employee Assistance Program for employees and their family. The company also provides other benefits in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.

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Madrigal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications merit and business need. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race ethnicity color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin age disability protected veteran or disabled status or other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.

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