Data Architect

Overview

Who is USP? The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world's leading health and science experts to develop rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.

We value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.

USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds regardless of background to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

This is a hands-on non-supervisory strategic position responsible for leading the end-to-end data architecture strategy, bridging data ingestion, transformation, governance, and analytics to ensure that data is accessible, high-quality, secure, and performant across the enterprise. The role will define and deliver data architectures and solutions as well as contribute to the development, alignment, and implementation of IT plans in line with the overall strategy of IT and the business.

As part of our mission to advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards.

Additionally, USP's People and Culture division, in partnership with the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing, inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and results-driven work environments.

• Lead the data design of solutions for large projects and programs; translate high-level business requirements into data models and appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards.
• Lead and support IT initiatives in developing and management of the USP Data Lakehouse.
• Lead and support USP analytics team in designing and curating data from a Data Lake for business intelligence dashboards.
• Lead and support the architecting of USP's cloud-enabled data platforms and services including data warehouse, systems of record and operational databases.
• Direct and manage USP's enterprise data landscaping efforts.
• Work with senior business stakeholders to secure engagement for the solution and ensure that the delivery of the project aligns with longer-term strategic roadmaps.
• Simplify the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards.
• Lead collaborative team working with other areas within IT to ensure that all solutions are complete, operable, conform to business processes, and meet the business needs with the agreed quality of service.
• Provide clear, continuous, and consistent data architecture leadership at a detailed level within projects.
• Lead and participate in the peer review and quality…