Senior Staff Engineer, Data Management

The Data Enablement and Analytics (DEA) team, within the PAPD (Product, Analytics and Process Development) organization, is a multi-functional team that drives PAPD’s digitalization efforts by making data usable and useful!

The Data Management Architect defines and governs the end-to-end architecture of data systems that power preclinical science and operations. You will architect domain-driven data models, curated datasets, and integration patterns across data lakes, lab systems and analytical tools, while enabling self-service visualizations. You will drive data quality, lineage, metadata and data catalog standards, and platform patterns. To accomplish this, you will partner with numerous teams and departments and deliver value through Agile approaches.

A Typical Day in the Role Might Involve:

• Enterprise Data Architecture (Preclinical):Define data models for preclinical entities (samples, assays, lots, batches, instruments, methods), harmonized across the data ecosystem; establish golden‑record, lineage, and System or record. 
• Data Platform Design:Partner with IT teams to continue our journey to a central data platform like the Research data lake or connected data marts. Partner with data engineering teams to design streaming and batch data flow (ETL vs ELT) patterns and deliver such solutions.
• Visualization & Semantics:Publish governed, analysis‑ready semantic layers and reusable data marts; define KPI/metric definitions; enable self‑service in Spotfire/Tableau with certified data sources and good performance.
• Data Management & Governance:Stand up data catalog/metadata standards, reference/master data strategies, quality controls, and lifecycle policies; partner with business data stewards in PAPD.
• LIMS/ELN Architecture and Solution Delivery:Partner with platform owners and lab teams to model experiment workflows, capture structured context at source, and ensure compliant, scalable Lab platforms like Benchling or LabWare LIMS.
• SAFe Ways of Working:Act as the overall product manager and program Lead – define our roadmap and continuous delivery mechanism using Scaled Agile Frameworks.
• Collaboration & Change Enablement:Co‑create roadmaps with PAPD functional leads and department data experts; conduct design reviews; mentor engineers and citizen developers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong understanding of LIMS/ELN systems like Benchling, LabWare or similar is mandatory.
• Experience: 8+ years in data architecture/engineering in a scientific or manufacturing context; proven delivery in hybrid cloud/on‑prem data lakes/warehouses.
• Cloud data platforms: Expertise in AWS, Snowflake, Databricks or comparable cloud data platforms and ecosystems.
• Database Platforms: Expertise in NoSQL, in-memory, Graph and relational databases, which form the backbone of our operations.
• Tooling & Platforms: Expert in data lake architectures (curation/serving layers), metadata/catalog tools, ELT/ETL data transformation frameworks;
• Analytics Enablement: Delivered governed, reusable datasets powering visualization tools like Spotfire, Tableau or Power BI;
• Ways of Working: Working knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe) - backlog refinement, PI planning and release management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in preclinical/bioprocess domains (samples, assays, batches, equipment, methods).
• Experience with Lab Systems for bioprocessing.  
• Prior work aligning data standards across R&D, QA, and Manufacturing (data integrity, traceability).

Core Competencies

• Build Data Architectures that span lab, data, and analytics ecosystems.
• Strong Communications
• Ability to Influence:
• Build Roadmaps.
• Continuous delivery using Agile.

 

Does this sound like you? Apply now to take your first step towards living the Regeneron Way! We have an inclusive culture that provides comprehensive benefits, which vary by location.  In the U.S., benefits may include health and wellness programs (including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance), fitness centers, 401(k) company match, family support benefits, equity awards, annual bonuses, paid time off, and paid leaves (e.g., military and parental leave) for eligible employees at all levels! For additional information about Regeneron benefits in the US, please visit https://careers.regeneron.com/en/working-at-regeneron/total-rewards/.  For other countries’ specific benefits, please speak to your recruiter.Please be advised that at Regeneron, we believe we are most successful and work best when we are together.  For that reason, many of Regeneron’s roles are required to be performed on-site.  Please speak with your recruiter and hiring manager for more information about Regeneron’s on-site policy and expectations for your role and your location.  

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Please note that certain background checks will form part of the recruitment process.  Background checks will be conducted in accordance with the law of the country where the position is based, including the type of background checks conducted. The purpose of carrying out such checks is for Regeneron to verify certain information regarding a candidate prior to the commencement of employment such as identity, right to work, educational qualifications etc.

Salary Range (annually)

$150,500.00 - $245,500.00