Executive Director, Head of Enterprise Platforms; Data platform ownership, AI , Mulitcloud

Position: Executive Director, Head of Enterprise Platforms(must have Data platform ownership, AI , Mulitcloud,
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.

• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.

• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

This is a hands-on strategic leadership role that combines multi-year data platform vision with day-to-day operational accountability, leading a platform architecture, engineering and operations teams in addition to software engineering tools/platform organization across multiple capability areas.
Scope of Responsibility
The Executive Director oversees five interconnected platform capability areas:
Platform Foundations & SRE:  Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD automation, observability, and site reliability engineering.
Data & Integration:  Enterprise data platform architecture, ingestion pipelines, data transformation, and API/integration services.
Security, Compliance & Testing:  Security guardrails, compliance automation, quality engineering, and test automation frameworks.
AI/ML & Knowledge:  Agentic AI platform strategy, ML infrastructure, and knowledge management services.
Enablement:  Developer portal, self-service tooling, documentation, and engineering productivity.

Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Platform Leadership
Own the enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap, including lakehouse and medallion architecture patterns on Databricks.
Establish scalable data ingestion, transformation, storage, and access patterns supporting complex clinical and commercial data workloads.
Drive improvements in data governance, lineage, quality, and compliance frameworks with emphasis on Unity Catalog and data mesh principles.
Partner with business, analytics, and data science stakeholders to ensure data platform capabilities align with enterprise needs and reduce time-to-insight.
Lead data platform modernization efforts to reduce technical debt, consolidate fragmented data stores, and improve performance and cost efficiency.
Own software engineering platforms and tools and drive standardization, which can be leveraged by larger Syneos Health Technology Solutions teams to drive automation and productivity
Partner with Software engineering teams and CoEs to enable latest software engineering tools in alignment with organizational strategy
Platform Engineering & Dev Sec Ops
Lead enterprise platform engineering capabilities including CI/CD pipeline standardization, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep), security guardrails, and automation frameworks.
Advance Dev Sec Ops  maturity to improve delivery velocity, security posture, and developer productivity across the organization.
Drive API management strategy, developer portal development, and self-service…