Executive Director, D&T Data Aggregation & Reporting

Job Title: Executive Director, D&T Data Aggregation & Reporting

Job Location: Uxbridge, UK

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time

Job Seniority Level: Executive

Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. We believe in our values,
Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.

This role will work within our innovative Data & Technology group that continues to evolve to meet business needs, fuel Parexel’s growth and enable improved support for stakeholders, including customers and ultimately patients, who will benefit from Parexel's integrated processes and systems.

This role can be based in the UK, Poland or Romania and can be fully home based. This position will involve enhancing and developing an innovative, collaborative environment by leading an international team, partnering with senior peers, and working closely with an engaged senior leader.

As the Executive Director, Data Aggregation & Reporting, you will be the senior leader responsible for enabling Parexel’s enterprise reporting, metrics, and standardized operational data products spanning clinical, safety, and corporate domains. You will also lead Data Lake Strategy, Engineering and Operations as well as Enterprise Integration capabilities, and the overall data preparation and transformation functions required to power analytics, AI enablement, and sponsor data delivery.

You will partner with the business to ensure trusted, high‑quality, well‑governed data, consistent definitions, and reliable data movement across the enterprise. You will work with senior leaders across technology and business functions to ensure Parexel operates with clear, consistent, compliant, and actionable data.

• Lead strategy, design, and roadmap for enterprise reporting and analytics aligned to operational, clinical, financial, and safety needs.
• Drive the creation of standardized enterprise metrics, KPIs, and dashboards.
• Ensure consistent definitions and alignment with Data Governance and MDM.
• Partner in the development and scaling of the reporting & metrics Center of Excellence.

• Lead engineering teams responsible for ingestion, transformation, storage, and optimization of enterprise data in the Enterprise Data Lake.
• Oversee performance, reliability, security, and lifecycle of data lake environments.
• Ensure all data domains (clinical, safety, financial, HR, scientific, etc.) have scalable engineering pipelines aligned with governance requirements.

• Lead teams responsible for API engineering, backend integration, and enterprise data flow.
• Ensure reliable movement of data between source systems, the data lake, reporting platforms, and client delivery mechanisms.
• Establish robust integration patterns, standards, monitoring, and observability.

• Drive high-quality, validated data preparation and staging for reporting and analytics, partnering with governance teams on data definitions, lineage, cataloging, and quality improvements.
• Support information enforcement mechanisms and operational agreements.
• Represent Data & Technology Data governance, standards and oversight forums.

• Serve as the D&T executive partner for operational leaders and sponsors—aligning reporting and data services with organizational priorities.
• Lead cross-functional intake, prioritization, and delivery processes to ensure cohesive, timely outcomes.
• Drive transparency and communication of enterprise roadmaps.

• Build, mentor, and lead global teams across data engineering, data modeling, visualization, and integration engineering.
• Champion skill growth in cloud engineering, Databricks, Power BI, structured data modeling, and integration frameworks.
• Promote a culture of innovation, operational rigor, and customer-focused…