Technical Consultant
Jersey, NJ - USA
Job Summary
Role Name : Technical Consultant Pharma (Business Translator)
Location : New Jersey USA
Experience: 10 -15 Years
Role Overview: The Technical Consultant role is responsible for end-to-end client management program management business growth and client success by ensuring solutions are scalable secure cost-efficient and aligned with modern data engineering analytics and AI/ML best practices. The consultant will partner with engineering teams data product owners and business stakeholders to establish architectural standards design cloud-native data platforms and guide technical execution across complex programs.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Drive senior client workshops problem framing and solution framing
- Lead end-to-end client advisory opportunity creation and demand generation
- Engage with business and technical teams to align architecture with business requirements
- Support RFP and RFI responses and architectural evaluations
- Experience with Life Sciences datasets migration and modernization
- Understanding of operational layers L1 L2 and L3 along with ontology and context layers
- Define and enforce data modeling metadata lineage and quality standards
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitoring frameworks
- Ensure architectures support observability reliability and operational excellence
- Architect end-to-end solutions on AWS and Databricks
- Define architectural standards patterns and best practices
- Review and guide solution designs for scalability performance and security
- Evaluate technology options and recommend long-term architectural strategies
- Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable data models
- Assess current-state data architectures and define future-state models
- Design scalable data models for analytical and operational workloads
- Demonstrate strong understanding of metadata lineage data quality and governance frameworks
- Be familiar with distributed compute paradigms and cloud-native modeling patterns
Required Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of experience in AI software development data engineering or data architecture along with
- 5 years of Life Sciences consulting experience
- Experience driving modernization initiatives for AI products with AI foundations governance operational layers and context layers
- Strong experience with Databricks DBT Core or Cloud Python Spark SQL distributed compute paradigms including in-memory distributed and MPP architectures and Data Vault 2.0 including automatedvDeep knowledge of AWS services including S3 Glue Redshift EMR DynamoDB Lambda Athena and Kinesis
- Experience leading architecture across multi-team onsite and offshore delivery models
- Executive presence to lead VP and Executive Director-level meetings and steering committees independently
- Ability to drive thought leadership technical visioning workshops and client success initiatives
- Life Sciences experience preferred
- Ability to translate complex analytical requirements into scalable architectures including data models ETL pipelines and consumption layers
- Experience designing and deploying dashboards and self-service analytics on relational and non-relational databases
- Strong understanding of CI/CD DevOps static code analysis and test-driven development
- Experience with cloud migration patterns and modern data platform design
- Experience defining data standards metadata models lineage quality rules and governance patterns
- Experience implementing logging monitoring observability and cost optimization frameworks
- Experience driving enterprise data platform adoption and modern data practices