Associate Director, Data Integrations and RPA

BeiGene continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

At BeiGene, we are passionate about applying cutting-edge science to the development of life-changing therapies. The same principle applies to Global Technology Solutions here at BeiGene. We are investing heavily in innovative, industry leading and forward-thinking technologies and platforms, to enable BeiGene to achieve its goals. This role presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT professional to join BeiGene’s Global Technology Services team, that values creative thinking, speed, efficiency, and pragmatism.

Reporting to the Director of Data Operations and Services, we are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Associate Director of Data Integrations and robotic process automation (RPA) to establish, mature and operationalize data platforms and integrations.

This role will lead and build out an outsourced team to oversee management of enterprise data platforms that store, move, transform, visualize, and analyze BeiGene’s enterprise data. This leader is expected to drive the maturity, efficiency, and usability of our systems to better serve our data platform and application users. In addition, this leader will play a critical role to improve the scalability and reliability of our existing data pipelines, data models and automation robots that provide critical insights and process automation for BeiGene’s global business operations.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Provides technical leadership for data pipeline design, development, maintenance, and migration.

• Build and own automation and monitoring frameworks that capture metrics and operational KPIs for data pipelines quality and performance.

• Lead and manage the data platform and integration team, providing mentorship and guidance as required.

• Ensure the scalability and performance of the data pipelines and RPA processes to meet SLAs.

• Proactively identify areas for improvement in the data platforms, data pipelines and data architecture to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

• Collaborate with data architecture and development team to ensure a smooth transition from build to operations for new systems and applications.

• Provide technical leadership to drive data tools and platform vision and roadmap with a focus to weigh tradeoffs between short-term goals and longer-term objectives.

• Leverage innovative strategies and technologies to ensure the highest data quality standards are maintained within the EDW.

• Manage project teams to optimize delivery against resources across project initiatives.

• Maintain awareness of the latest developments in data technology and industry trends, incorporating new technologies as appropriate.

• Prototype and build pilots for new technologies and approaches.

• Documenting processes and ensuring data platforms in compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field/experiences

• 8+ years of experience in supporting and operating data platforms deployed in Azure or AWS.

• 8+ years of experience in managing complex data pipelines sourced from enterprise ERP systems such as SAP, Workday and Salesforce.

• 3+ years of experience operating bots developed using RPA tools such as UIPath.

• Experienced in managing GxP qualified data platforms deployed on-perm and in cloud environments.

• Experience with managing and working directly with enterprise data lake, data warehouse, data visualization, and data science platforms.

• Comfortable with both agile and SDLC project delivery models.

• 5+ years of experience managing an offshore team of contractors and associated staff.

• Able to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members and business stakeholders.

• Experienced in resolving end-to-end issues with higher levels of management with minimum guidance.

• Working knowledge of bio-pharma industry and clinical trials is strongly preferred.

Travel:

• Up to 5%

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

• Manage team members (employees and contingent workers) at global sites, including coaching and mentoring of staff with training and professional development. 

• Must be an effective leader and communicator and considered to be a developer of people comfortable working with a broad cross-section of people in direct and matrixed relationships

Competencies:

Ethics - Treats people with respect; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.

Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently.  Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time.  Follows instructions and responds to management direction.

Communication - Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.  Writes clearly and informatively.  Able to read and interpret written information.

Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.  Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Shares expertise with others.

Adaptability – Able to adapt to changes in the work environment.  Manages competing demands.  Changes approach or method to best fit the situation.  Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.

Technical Skills - Assesses own strengths and development areas; Pursues training and opportunities for growth; Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills; Shares expertise with others.

Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.

Analytical - Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data.

Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully.

Project Management - Communicates changes and progress; Completes projects on time and budget.

BeiGene Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Collaborative Spirit, Bold Ingenuity and Driving Excellence, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

• Fosters Teamwork
• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
• Self-Awareness
• Acts Inclusively
• Demonstrates Initiative
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Continuous Learning
• Embraces Change
• Results-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
• Financial Excellence
• Communicates with Clarity

BeiGene is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages are determined by several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, certifications, relevant education or training, and specific work location. Packages may vary by location due to differences in the cost of labor. The recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for a preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the listed range reflects the base salary or hourly range only. Non-Commercial roles are eligible to participate in the annual bonus plan, and Commercial roles are eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan. All Company employees have the opportunity to own shares of BeiGene Ltd. stock because all employees are eligible for discretionary equity awards and to voluntarily participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Company has a comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. BeiGene does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.