Associate Director, Global Data Engineering

Associate Director, Global Data Engineering

At Eisai, satisfying unmet medical needs and increasing the benefits healthcare provides to patients, their families, and caregivers is Eisai's human health care (hhc) mission. We're a growing pharmaceutical company that is breaking through in neurology and oncology, with a strong emphasis on research and development. Our history includes the development of many innovative medicines, notably the discovery of the world's most widely-used treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

As we continue to expand, we are seeking highly-motivated individuals who want to work in a fast-paced environment and make a difference. If this is your profile, we want to hear from you.

The Associate Director, Global Data Engineering is a strategic and hands-on technology leader within Eisai's Global Data & Analytics (GDAS) organization. Reporting directly to the Global Data & Analytics Technology Lead, this role is responsible for architecting, delivering, and operationalizing scalable data, analytics, and AI platforms that support Eisai's global business objectives across Commercial, R&D, and Corporate functions. This position plays a critical leadership role in implementing the defined enterprise data strategy, modern data architecture, cloud platforms, and AI enablement capabilities that power data-driven decision making and innovation across Eisai.

The Associate Director partners closely with business stakeholders, GDBT leaders, technology vendors, managed service providers, and global delivery teams to develop future-state data and analytics capabilities that are secure, compliant, flexible, and scalable. The role combines strategic technology leadership with hands-on architecture and engineering expertise across cloud platforms, modern data ecosystems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and enterprise analytics. The successful candidate will drive the adoption of modern data engineering practices, governed data democratization, and AI-enabled solutions while ensuring alignment with Eisai's global architecture principles and business priorities.

The Associate Director serves as a trusted advisor and technical leader, influencing strategic decisions and leading cross-functional teams spanning North America, EMEA, and Japan. Deep expertise in Databricks, Informatica, AWS, enterprise data architecture, and AI platform implementation is required.

• Inspires, leads, and directs global data engineering teams to advance the adoption and effective use of enterprise data, analytics, and AI capabilities.
• Partners with business and technology leaders to define the strategic roadmap for data engineering, analytics, and AI platforms supporting Eisai's global business objectives.
• Contributes to the overall Data & Analytics strategy while owning technology enablement plans, implementation roadmaps, and associated budget planning.
• Leads the development of future-state enterprise architecture patterns for data ingestion, integration, storage, governance, analytics, AI, and consumption.

• Designs, architects, and implements enterprise-scale cloud data platforms supporting advanced analytics, data science, reporting, and AI use cases.
• Develops and maintains architectural standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices across data, analytics, and AI ecosystems.
• Leads the design and implementation of data ingestion, transformation, storage, virtualization, and consumption frameworks supporting next-generation data products.
• Enables governed self-service analytics and data democratization capabilities while maintaining enterprise security, compliance, and governance standards.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending innovative capabilities that create business value and improve operational efficiency.

• Provides technical leadership for modern AI, machine learning, and GenAI initiatives across Eisai's data ecosystem.
• Leads architecture and implementation efforts utilizing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, including Lakehouse…