R&d Data Modeler

**Job Title**:R&D Data Modeler

**Department**:Data Management

**Education Required**:Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a health-related field

**General Description**:
The R&D Data Modeler designs, implements, and governs the data architecture / data design standards that underpins our R&D analytics and digital initiatives. Partnering closely with business, digital, and IT teams, this role will translate complex R&D data needs into robust conceptual, logical, and physical data models ensuring consistency, scalability, interoperability and reusability across our data ecosystem.

**Essential Functions of the job**:

- **Data Modeling & Architecture**
- Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned to R&D business needs and strategic objectives.
- Develop and govern common data models and ontologies for Research, Clinical, Regulatory, and other R&D domains.
- Collaborate with data product teams to design, prototype, and deliver reusable, scalable data products translating core models into actionable datasets.
- Validate physical schemas for performance and scalability, minimizing data latency for consumers (including self-service analytics and AI model training).
- **Solution Design & Integration**
- Define and maintain modeling standards, naming conventions, and harmonization processes to guarantee data consistency across structured and unstructured data platforms.
- Partner with R&D business, DSDI, GTS and other teams to translate requirements into end-to
- end data solutions, including metadata management and lineage documentation.
- **Governance & Best Practices**
- Embed data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and procedures, into the modeling lifecycle, ensuring FAIR data principles and compliance with GxP regulations.
- Establish best practices for model versioning, documentation, and change management in alignment with SDLC and validation processes.
- Evaluate emerging data modeling tools and technologies (e.g., cloud-native modeling, metadata repositories) and advice on selection and migration strategies.
- **Consulting & Enablement**
- Act as the “data translator” in cross-functional working groups, facilitating workshops to uncover data requirements, perform impact analyses, and drive consensus on future-state architectures.
- Provide expert guidance and training to R&D teams on data modeling methodologies, metadata management, and information management principles.
- Support major platform implementations (e.g., data warehouse, data lake, virtualization hubs) as the principal data consultant

**Computer Skills**:

- Microsoft Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)

**Qualifications**:

- Experience in business data management, information architecture, or other related field
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field.
- Hands-on experience in data modeling, data or information architecture within Pharma R&D.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, complex data models from conceptualization through physical optimization, aligned to business needs.
- Strong understanding of R&D data domains (Research, Clinical Operations, Safety, Regulatory) and related compliance requirements (GxP, validation).
- Solid grasp of data integration patterns, ETL/ELT pipelines, and source-to-target mapping.
- Experience with data governance and data management tools (Databricks, Informatica, Reltio, ERwin, and storage platforms for structured and unstructured data like Azure, AWS, Oracle both cloud and on
- prem)
- Familiarity with SDLC, change control, and quality/compliance processes.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strategic thinker with an eye for detail and a passion for data excellence.
- Collaborative mindset, adept at influencing across matrixed organizations.
- Proactive learner who stays current on data modeling trends and best practices.
- Customer-focused, with a commitment to delivering high-quality, fit-for-purpose data solutions.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹814,912.86 - ₹2,497,845.15 per year

**Benefits**:

- Provident Fund

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Morning shift

Supplemental Pay:

- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Work Location: In person