Director, Software Engineering, Clinical Systems

Moderna

Warsaw, Poland

The Role:

We are seeking a senior-level Director of Solution Architecture who excels in both leadership and hands-on technical capabilities, focusing on building and operating high-scale systems for services and data. This role will be integral to the creation of a clinical development ecosystem, integrating homegrown systems with external vendors to streamline and revolutionize clinical trial data management. You will drive innovation in clinical development activities, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI to enhance the efficiency and quality of clinical data. With a proactive, collaborative attitude, the successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, continuous delivery culture while influencing both internal and external teams.

Here's What You’ll Do:

Your key responsibilities will be:

Lead the architecture and design of a clinical data ecosystem to aggregate and harmonize data from multiple sources and build closed-loop systems;
Develop and implement data pipelines to streamline data ingestion, cleaning, and transformation processes;
Lead the design and development of complex software systems, ensuring robustness, scalability, and security;
Drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability while mentoring a technical team;
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including data management, clinical operations, and external vendors, to create a cohesive technical strategy for Moderna.

Your responsibilities will also include:

Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices in data security;
Promoting a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and technical excellence within the engineering team;
Overseeing system designs within the broader scope, making well-supported tradeoffs in complex situations;
Serving as a technical adviser at both Director and VP levels, providing architectural guidance and driving strategic roadmaps for long-term technical vision.

The key Moderna Mindsets you’ll need to succeed in the role:

Digitize Everywhere Possible: You will champion the integration of AI and digital tools in the clinical data ecosystem, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and scalability;
Act with Urgency: Your leadership will be critical in fast-tracking innovations and solutions in clinical development, reflecting Moderna’s mission to advance mRNA medicines quickly and effectively.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

Minimum 10 years of experience in software development or 10 years with an advanced degree;
6-8 years of experience in leading API-first infrastructure software development efforts, from design to troubleshooting;
5+ years experience leading technical teams and implementing engineering products at an executive level within multinational organizations.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

Experience landing outcomes across a broad range of products and technologies, walking the line between necessary product heterogeneity and platform centralization;
Experience with Responsible AI;
Experience with working with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements;
Experience working across highly horizontal areas requiring a high-degree of cross-organizational collaboration and coordination;
Understanding of ML Systems and infrastructure for production with technical knowledge to be credible with customers and engineers;
Experience growing team capabilities through role modeling and mentoring;
Ability to perform technical deep-dives into code, networking, operating systems, and compute infrastructure;
Ability to make well-supported tradeoffs in complex situations.

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