Vice President, Platform Engineering

Medidata: Conquering Diseases Together

Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences with the world’s most-used platform for clinical development, commercial and real-world data. Powered by artificial intelligence and delivered by #1 ranked industry experts, the Intelligent Platform for Life Sciences helps pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device companies and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk and optimize outcomes. Medidata serves more than 1,000 customers and partners worldwide and empowers more than 100,000 certified users every day to create hope for millions of patients. Discover the future of life sciences: http://www.mdsol.com

We know that diverse teams win and are fully committed to selecting leaders and employees that represent the markets in which we operate. We are still led by our Co-founders, Tarek Sherif and Glen de Vries, and have global operations in US, Europe and Asia with over 2000 employees.

Your Mission:

The Vice President of Platform Engineering is responsible for creation, support and maintenance of the Medidata platform. The VP works with the SVP of Engineering to set technology directions, defines the technical approach and overall timetable for developing the agreed functionality, and manages the actual development effort through product release.

• Responsible for overseeing the development & engineering function in a sub-part of the overall organization such as hardware, software, systems, telecommunications, or product design and engineering

• Responsibilities include overseeing the creation, development, and design of the organization’s products, engineering services, and may include the research function

• Collaborate in setting product direction

• Determine overall technical approach, including the data model, architecture and processing algorithms

• Conduct review sessions between engineering, product management and SQA during the development process, to confirm the functionality is being delivered correctly and can be tested comprehensively

• Enforce adherence to the Software Development Lifecycle by monitoring code review sessions and the production of design specifications

• Provide line management to members of the Engineering team

• Manage the support and bug fixing process for existing customers

Your Competencies:

• Sets vision and direction through resource allocation decisions for a significant organization or business unit

• Executive responsible for multiple functions, departments, and/or geographic marketplaces

• Develops and implements strategic plans and objectives for the organization in alignment with corporate strategy; oversees direction and approves tactical administrative or operational policies and resource allocation decisions to ensure achievement of objectives

• Develops strategic plans to ensure successful implementation of action plans and objectives where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the company, competitive environment, technology and economic or social implications of organization activities

• Participates in development of corporate methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people

• Approves budgets and schedules to meet corporate requirements

• Erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of long-term company operations

• Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers.

• Interactions frequently involve highly visible activities such as speaking to or negotiating with customers, influencing other executives and/or academics, lobbying regulators or policy makers and representing the organization on matters of great significance to the organization

• Directs and controls the activities of a complete functional area through multiple levels of management within the company

• Has overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and approving changes to methods and practices

• Manages a team of directors and/or high-level individual contributors

• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry & clinical trials

• Superior organization and communication skills, both verbal and written

• Total commitment to quality and attention to detail

• Ruby on Rails

• Database technologies (MySQL & Postgres)

• OpenAPI and API development methodologies

• SAAS & PAAS based Technology Architecture

• Cloud Native Applications

Your Education & Experience:

• Four-year college degree preferably in computer science, information systems or life sciences

• 5+ years’ experience in developing software for clinical research

• 10+ years’ experience in a software development environment

• 5+ years managerial experience

Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform.

Medidata’s solutions have powered over 14,000 clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.

Medidata Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Medidata Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Medidata Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.