Associate Director, Research Technology & Scientific Computing

About Otsuka

At Otsuka, we defy limitation, so that others can too. We have an unwavering belief in doing more, transcending expectations, and going beyond for patients, families, providers, and each other. We are committed to creating new products for better health worldwide, with a focus on neuroscience and nephrology.

Scientific discovery increasingly depends on technology. Researchers rely on laboratory systems, scientific applications, data platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, and computing environments to turn ideas into insight and advance new therapies. When these capabilities work together well, science moves faster. This role exists to make technology an accelerator for research.

Based in Boston, the leader will work closely with Jnana Therapeutics and Research & Development teams across OAPI and OPDC to reduce friction in scientific workflows, shape modern research platforms, and connect local needs to sustainable enterprise capabilities.

This role sits at the intersection of scientific discovery, laboratory technology, scientific computing, AI-enabled research, and enterprise platforms. The successful candidate will be a trusted technology partner to scientists and R&D leaders, translating evolving research priorities into roadmaps, capabilities, and measurable outcomes. This includes representing needs in enterprise initiatives involving AI, scientific computing, data platforms, and emerging technology capabilities, ensuring research requirements are clearly articulated and appropriately prioritized.

The role will also shape how technology is experienced by specific stakeholder personas, including laboratory scientists, computational researchers, research associates, lab managers, data scientists, and support teams. By connecting their end-to-end journeys across platforms, suppliers, and technology teams, this leader will improve both research outcomes and the way services are delivered.

Accelerate Scientific Outcomes

• Partner with scientists, laboratory teams, and research leaders to ensure technology enables discovery rather than creates friction.
• Understand critical workflows and improve how researchers compute, collaborate, access data, use applications, and operate laboratory environments.

Shape Research Technology Direction

• Translate scientific priorities and emerging opportunities into an integrated roadmap for laboratory technology, research applications, scientific computing, cloud and on-premises services, data flows, and supporting infrastructure.
• Balance speed and innovation with security, compliance, resilience, cost, supportability, and long-term platform health.

Deliver End-to-End Capabilities

• Bring together researchers, IT business partners, architecture, platform engineering, operations, cybersecurity, Data & AI, vendors, and service providers to deliver complete outcomes.
• Resolve cross-platform dependencies early and ensure new capabilities are usable, observable, supportable, recoverable, and ready for adoption.

Improve the Researcher Experience

• Use stakeholder personas, journeys, feedback, and service measures to identify and remove friction across organizational and technology boundaries.
• Measure service health through technical performance, experience, adoption, and research impact, not component availability alone.

Build Sustainable Platforms and Services

• Lead the lifecycle, reliability, service health, supplier performance, and continual improvement of Research Technology capabilities.
• Establish clear ownership, support models, operational readiness, knowledge, communications, training, and early-life support for new and changing services.

Shape What Comes Next

• Partner with Data & AI and other enterprise…