Laboratory Data Strategy & Architecture Lead

Overview

Lead laboratory data strategy, architecture, and migration planning for a complex pharmaceutical transformation, providing strategic and technical guidance for laboratory data across systems and platforms in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

What you'll do

• Develop and lead laboratory data strategies, roadmaps, mapping approaches, and conversion plans aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Define data reconciliation processes, quality standards, validation rules, and controls to support accurate and complete data migration.
• Establish data ownership, stewardship, governance, metadata, master/reference data, and operational handover requirements.
• Define laboratory data architecture, data models, integration patterns, interfaces, and cross-platform migration requirements.
• Partner with laboratory systems teams, data architects, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and remediation plans.
• Provide subject matter guidance on laboratory data structures, workflows, and system transitions in regulated pharmaceutical environments.
• Support connected analytics, reporting, and cloud data initiatives while aligning practices with applicable regulatory and compliance requirements.

What you'll need

• Extensive experience with laboratory systems and data in pharmaceutical or life sciences environments.
• Demonstrated ownership of laboratory data strategy, roadmaps, data architecture, and cross-system transformation planning.
• Direct experience with data mapping, conversion, migration planning, reconciliation, and data-quality controls.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, stewardship, metadata management, and master/reference data practices.
• Experience defining data models, system interfaces, integration requirements, and migration or validation standards.
• Ability to work directly with business, laboratory, IT, and architecture stakeholders and turn complex requirements into actionable plans.
• Working familiarity with cloud data platforms, analytics, and enterprise reporting environments.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting large-scale laboratory system transformation or pharmaceutical data modernization programs.
• Familiarity with GxP requirements and regulated laboratory data practices.
• Experience with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), scientific data management, or cloud migration initiatives.

Details

• Remote in the United States; client-facing assignment.
• Travel to Philadelphia approximately twice a month.
• Candidates based in New Jersey or Pennsylvania are preferred.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.
• Full-time employment.