Senior Principal Technical Data Specialist (LATAM)

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Protocol & Requirements Translation: Define enterprise expectations for requirements quality and traceability, advise on novel study designs, and resolve critical requirements issues across strategic programs.

• CRF, Edit Check & Technical Specifications: Provide governance for the full suite of technical specifications, shape and harmonize CRF-aligned templates and design principles across platforms, portfolios, and therapeutic areas, create data transfer agreements, and arbitrate high-impact technical design decisions.

• Database Design & Build Oversight: Establish technical architecture and governance expectations for database delivery, advising leadership on strategic design trade-offs, platform capabilities, interoperability, AI enablement, and systemic technical risk.

• Testing, Defect Management & Validation: Define technical testing standards and quality thresholds, provide assurance for critical validation issues, sponsor advanced automation, and establish expectations for technical execution and evidence while supporting overall coordination by the Lead Data Manager.

• Production Readiness, Migration, Change Control & Archival: Provide governance for major migrations, platform transitions, post-production change, and technical database archival within selected EDC systems; direct response to critical deployment or archival risk and define sustainable practices.

• Data Integration & Workbench Enablement: Shape integration and data-cleaning workbench strategy, long-term technical architecture, operating models, data lineage, control points, and interoperability across clinical data platforms.

• Quality, Compliance & Documentation / Cross-Functional & Sponsor Collaboration / Program Complexity, Planning & Risk Management / Mentoring, Standards & Continuous Improvement: Represent Technical Data Management in strategic governance and sponsor forums; define technical quality and inspection-readiness expectations; lead strategy for business-critical programs; build organizational capability; sponsor innovation and transformation; and ensure sustainable value.