Senior Consultant — BioPharma Data Strategy & Governance, Databricks

Senior Consultant — Bio Pharma Data Strategy & Governance, Databricks Onsite
· San Francisco Bay Area
· Full-time About the Role

Chryselys is hiring an onsite Senior Consultant to lead client-facing Databricks projects at biopharma clients in commercial and medical affairs teams.

The role splits roughly 50/50 across:

• Data Governance — building a governed data foundation (intake, classification, de-identification, access control, and audit) on Unity Catalog.
• Data Strategy — partnering with Commercial & Medical Affairs leadership to shape a multi-year data strategy and target-state architecture on Databricks: use cases, data products, platform modernization, and the roadmap to get there.

You will be the single onsite point of contact across both: embedded with the client to meet stakeholders, run requirements and discovery, facilitate decisions, and translate everything into clear, actionable specifications for our offshore delivery team. This is a hands-on role — equal parts trusted advisor, business analyst, and program driver.

If you understand both how regulated life-sciences data should be governed

* before
* it's used and how to turn a leadership vision into a credible, prioritized data roadmap — and you can move fluently between executive conversations and engineering tickets — this is for you.

• Act as the onsite liaison between the client's Commercial/Medical Affairs and IT teams and our offshore delivery pod — gathering requirements, removing blockers, and keeping both programs on track.
• Run stakeholder discovery, document requirements, and translate them into detailed specs and a prioritized backlog for the offshore team; review and validate output before client delivery.
• Report progress, risks, and mitigations to client and Chryselys leadership; manage the boundary and dependencies between the two engagements.

• Collect policy inputs — security, privacy, retention, GxP designations, and any de-identification/tokenization standards.
• Facilitate the Governance Council (charter, cadence, decision rights) and operate the intake-and-attestation process: data contracts, owner attestation, complexity tiering, and landing into a restricted catalog.
• Own the governance artifacts as delivered: data dictionary, lineage, access control lists, retention/archival, versioning, and audit.
• Coordinate the IT handoff (Unity Catalog external locations, S3 / AWS controls, IAM).

• Partner with Commercial & Medical Affairs leadership to define a multi-year data vision, target-state architecture, and operating model on Databricks.
• Assess the current-state data landscape — sources, platforms, gaps, and pain points — and translate findings into a clear, prioritized roadmap.
• Run use-case discovery and prioritization, tying data and analytics investments to measurable business value.
• Shape data-product, platform-modernization, and analytics/AI enablement plans; support business cases and build-vs-buy recommendations.
• Sequence strategy into actionable phases and a delivery backlog for the offshore team.

• - 8+ years in data strategy, data governance, data management, or technical consulting — ideally in biopharma industry.
• - Experience shaping data strategies and roadmaps
  
  * and
  * delivering governance — comfortable operating at both the leadership-advisory and hands-on-delivery levels.
• - Hands-on experience with Databricks Unity Catalog — data classification, governed tags, RBAC/ABAC, lineage, and the medallion architecture.
• - Working knowledge of life-sciences data-integrity and compliance frameworks: 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, ALCOA+, HIPAA, GDPR, EU Annex 11.
• - Strong requirements-gathering, discovery, and stakeholder-management skills — fluent with data owners, stewards, IT, and executive sponsors alike.
• - Proven experience coordinating distributed / offshore delivery teams: writing specs, grooming backlogs, and reviewing technical output.
• - Excellent written and verbal communication; able to move between business intent and technical detail.
• - Based in Bay Area for regular onsite presence.

• Direct exposure to Medical Affairs data (advisory…