Technical Lead

Job description

The life sciences industry plays a significant role in advancing healthcare and improving the quality of life – in many cases, saving millions of lives globally. At BASE life science, this is the motivation for everything we do, aimed at pushing boundaries, seeking excellence, and making a lasting difference through consulting expertise and data-driven solutions. Position Summary: Job title: Technical Lead Job Description: This is a Senior role designed to provide program leadership to deliver strategic technical solutions that address complex client issues in the Life Sciences industry. As a manager within the Migration team, you will be handling projects and programs with regards to migration implementation to achieve desired outcomes and ensure successful business growth and regulatory compliance. You will also seek new business opportunities to help BASE life science grow its presence within existing and new customers. You will provide program/project management oversight for all customer implementations falling under the Migrations team’s scope. You will lead project teams consisting of data engineers/scientists. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, project management and the ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications. As a Technical Manager for the Migration team your responsibilities include: Monitoring program status including milestones, risks, issues, budgets, etc. Acting as a delivery escalation point and proactively ensuring escalations are handled promptly with a clear action and communication plan. Providing executive level summaries for senior executives in BASE life science. Intervening, when necessary, to ensure costs, timelines and quality are on track. Developed plans and effort estimates for future project during sales process. Delivering Projects: Lead a cross-functional team to deliver data driven projects on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of our life science industry stakeholders. Collaborate with business stakeholders in the life science industry to understand their data needs and translate them into technical specifications for the project team. Develop project plans, timelines, and budgets for the projects. Track and report on project progress, identifying and mitigating risks as needed. Facilitate communication and collaboration between the project team, life science industry stakeholders, and other teams within BASE life science. What makes you the best person for this job? 5+ years of experience as a technical project manager ideally within the life science industry or other regulated areas. Successful track record of managing technically complex projects such as software development, implementation of IT systems, data migrations, etc. Experience leading developers, data engineers and/or data scientists and delivering data driven projects. Experience with project management tools such as JIRA. Experience with Agile project management methodologies such as SAFe. Strong communication skills, both in writing, meetings and in presentations. Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. A genuine interest in understanding the technical aspects of complex data-driven projects. Additionally, the ideal candidate has the following qualifications: Experience with coding in Python, VBA, Java, R, SQL, C, or similar. Experience selling either projects or products to clients. Experience working with Veeva Vault. We offer this position in United States. What makes us the best employer for you? BASE life science has been recognized as an outstanding workplace, earning us the Great Place To Work certification in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. We are proud to represent 35+ nationalities among our colleagues, and firmly believe in the power of diverse perspectives and characteristics to drive truly innovative solutions and achieving excellence. At the heart of our organization lies a foundation grounded in five core values: team spirit, trust, openness, ambition, and execution. We cultivate an environment that champions flexibility, placing confidence in our employees to successfully complete tasks while upholding a healthy work-life balance. Additionally, we place significance in cross-functional collaboration, where niche skills and specialisms are valued and challenging the status quo is encouraged. Additionally, we offer you: Health insurance. Remote work friendliness. Ongoing learning and development. Flexible schedules to fit your work to your routine. Contributions to physical, social, and emotional health. Home office setup with laptop and other electronic devices. The chance to help make a difference for patients around the world. Interested? If you find this position intriguing, don't delay— submit your application in English at your earliest convenience. We are continuously reviewing and assessing all incoming candidates and eagerly await your application. By submitting your application, you consent to the processing of your personal data by BASE life science for the purposes of recruitment and selection. This includes the collection, storage, and use of your personal data as outlined in our Privacy Policy . Location: BASE Wilmington Office Country Interested? If you find this position intriguing, don’t delay—submit your application at your earliest convenience. We are continuously reviewing and assessing all incoming candidates and eagerly await your application.