Senior Director, Data Platform (fmd)

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology

At Cytiva one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines new medicines and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other our customers and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

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Senior Director Data Platform will build and inspire high-performing teams across data engineering EDI ETL and enterprise integrations operating in SOX- and GxP-regulated environments. The role also leads a senior leader responsible for enterprise data governance ensuring trusted well-governed data is consistently available across the organization.

This position reports to the VP Digital Data & AI and is part of the Digital Data & AI team and will be an on-site role in Kraków.

What you will do

• Set a bold clear enterprise data platform vision and strategy aligned to business priorities and translate it into an executable multi-year roadmap.

• Lead coach and scale teams across data governance data engineering EDI ETL and integration engineering developing strong leaders and a culture of accountability and excellence.

• Drive modernization of the data platform including architectural simplification standardization and adoption of modern data patterns and platforms.

• Own delivery outcomes for the data platform including reliability performance scalability cost efficiency and time-to-value.

• Ensure the platform meets stringent SOX and GxP requirements with strong controls validation discipline audit readiness and data integrity practices embedded by design.

• Lead a team responsible for enterprise data governance and partner closely to:

- Define and enforce data policies standards and stewardship models.

- Improve data quality lineage and transparency across domains.

- Enable confident decision-making through trusted well-documented data.

• Influence and align across a complex matrixed organization driving adoption of shared platforms and reducing fragmentation and technical debt.

• Establish clear metrics and operating rhythms to measure platform health adoption and business impact.

• Make decisive build/buy and prioritization decisions balancing speed risk compliance and long-term sustainability.

Who you are

• Bachelors degree in computer science engineering information systems or a related field.

• 12 years of experience in data engineering integration engineering or data platform roles with 6 years in people leadership roles.

• Proven experience defining and delivering enterprise data platform strategy and roadmaps in a complex matrixed organization.

• Demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary teams including data engineering ETL/integration and EDI capabilities.

• Strong understanding of modern data architectures (lakehouse/warehouse patterns streaming semantic layers data product thinking) and how to operationalize them at scale.

• Experience delivering solutions in regulated environments including SOX controls and GxP expectations (e.g. validation traceability audit readiness data integrity).

• Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS azure or gcp) and modern engineering practices (CI/CD observability infrastructure as code security by design).

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence executive audiences and align priorities across teams.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in

• Leading enterprise data governance programs (catalog lineage stewardship data quality policy enforcement) in partnership with business and IT.

• EDI standards and ecosystems (e.g. ANSI X12 EDIFACT) B2B integration patterns and partner onboarding at scale.

• Integrating data across ERP CRM manufacturing quality and supply chain platforms in life sciences biotech or healthcare environments.

• Driving platform modernization programs (legacy to cloud migration tool consolidation operating model changes) with measurable cost and reliability improvements.

• Supporting M&A integration including rapid onboarding of new data sources and harmonization of data models and controls.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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