When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.
Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.
Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. We believe in our values, Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.
This role will work within our innovative Data & Technology group that continues to evolve to meet business needs, fuel Parexel's growth and enable improved support for stakeholders, including customers and ultimately patients, who will benefit from Parexel's integrated processes and systems.
This role can be based in the UK, Poland or Romania and can be fully home based. This position will involve enhancing and developing an innovative, collaborative environment by leading an international team, partnering with senior peers, and working closely with an engaged senior leader.
As the Executive Director, Data Aggregation & Reporting, you will be the senior leader responsible for enabling Parexel’s enterprise reporting, metrics, and standardized operational data products spanning clinical, safety, and corporate domains. You will also lead Data Lake Strategy, Engineering and Operations as well as Enterprise Integration capabilities, and the overall data preparation and transformation functions required to power analytics, AI enablement, and sponsor data delivery.
You will partner in the business to ensure trusted, high‑quality, well‑governed data, consistent definitions, and reliable data movement across the enterprise. You will work with senior leaders across technology and business functions to ensure Parexel operates with clear, consistent, compliant, and actionable data.
Key Responsibilities & What You’ll Do:
Enterprise Data Aggregation & Reporting Leadership
Lead strategy, design, and roadmap for enterprise reporting and analytics aligned to operational, clinical, financial, and safety needs.
Drive the creation of standardized enterprise metrics, KPIs, and dashboards.
Ensure consistent definitions and alignment with Data Governance and MDM
Partners in the development and scaling of reporting & metrics Center of Excellence.
Data Lake Engineering & Operations Oversight
Lead engineering teams responsible for ingestion, transformation, storage, and optimization of enterprise data in the Enterprise Data Lake
Oversee performance, reliability, security, and lifecycle of data lake environments.
Ensure all data domains (clinical, safety, financial, HR, scientific, etc.) have scalable engineering pipelines aligned with governance requirements.
Enterprise Integration Capability Ownership
Lead teams responsible for API engineering, backend integration, and enterprise data flow
Ensure reliable movement of data between source systems, the data lake, reporting platforms, and client delivery mechanisms.
Establish robust integration patterns, standards, monitoring, and observability.
Data Quality, Governance, and MDM Partnership
Drive high-quality, validated data preparation and staging for reporting and analytics, partner with governance teams on data definitions, lineage, cataloging, and quality improvements.
Support information enforcement mechanisms and operational agreements
Represent Data & Technology Data governance, standards and oversight forums.
Delivery Excellence & Cross-Functional Leadership
Serve as the D&T executive partner for operational leaders and sponsors—aligning reporting and data services with organizational priorities.
Lead cross-functional intake, prioritization, and delivery processes to ensure cohesive, timely outcomes.
Drive transparency and communication of enterprise roadmaps
Team Leadership & Organizational Development
Build, mentor, and lead global teams across data engineering, data modeling, visualization, and integration engineering.
Champion skill growth in cloud engineering, Databricks, Power BI, structured data modeling, and integration frameworks.
Promote a culture of innovation, operational rigor, and customer-focused delivery.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required.
Master’s degree preferred
Skills:
Executive-level communication, influence, and stakeholder engagement.
Deep understanding of data lake design, data engineering, and cloud architecture.
Strong command of enterprise reporting, metrics standardization, and data modeling.
Expertise in enterprise integrations (APIs, event-driven architectures, ETL/ELT patterns).
Ability to operate in regulated life sciences environments with strong governance requirements.
Proven success leading global technical and functional teams.
Knowledge and Experience:
Many years of Senior or Executive level experience in data engineering, reporting, analytics, or enterprise data management.
Demonstrated leadership of large-scale data lake engineering and reporting programs.
Experience with enterprise integration technologies, APIs, and data distribution models
Strong knowledge of clinical development, safety, operational systems, and associated data.
Experience partnering with Data Governance, MDM, and architecture bodies.
Familiarity with Databricks, Azure, Power BI, modern data catalogs, and MDM platforms.
In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and encouragement to develop within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry. You will be well supported and in return for your hard work you will be rewarded with a competitive base salary, bonus, company car or car allowance, holiday as well as other leading benefits you would expect with a top company in the CRO Industry.
Apply today to begin your Parexel journey!
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