Job Description

Role: Pharma R&D Functional Expert

Location: San Francisco, CA Onsite
Type: Contract

We are looking to engage an experienced Pharma R&D Functional Expert for one of our clients in San Francisco . This is a contract role, and the details are as follows:

Role Overview:
The consultant will serve as the primary contact for the development of a data and analytics platform on Databricks, acting as the bridge between customer's R&D stakeholders and the technical data engineering team. The key responsibility will be to define business rules/logic and provide clear documentation for implementation.

Key Requirements:

• 8 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, specifically in R&D, clinical operations, or bioinformatics data management.
• Strong communication skills to translate scientific/clinical requirements into technical specifications.
• Experience with clinical data systems (Medidata RAVE or other EDC platforms).
• Familiarity with CDISC standards (SDTM, ADaM) and LIMS.
• Good understanding of clinical trial processes.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to genomics data (NGS, gnomAD, GWAS) and bioinformatics data lifecycle.
• Knowledge of SAS and R in statistical/clinical reporting and regulatory submissions.
• Experience with data platforms (data lakes, data mesh), cloud (Azure preferred), and Databricks/Spark.
• Translational medicine experience.

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