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
Company Overview
PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy is the rare Disease Specialty Pharmacy", servicing patients nationwide. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.pantherxrare.com/.