Senior Technical Lead – Veeva Vault Migrations, Life Sciences

Role Overview

• Project Planning: Partner with project managers and stakeholders to define project requirements, objectives, timelines, and resource efforts. Break these down into actionable work packages, ensuring they are effectively captured and tracked within development plans.
• Communication and Collaboration: Serve as the liaison between the technical project team and stakeholders, including project managers, business contacts, and QA teams. Facilitate clear and effective communication, coordinate dependencies, provide timely updates, address concerns or issues promptly, and promote collaboration and teamwork.
• Team Leadership and Management: Lead and manage a global team of technical consultants, including onshore and offshore employees and contractors, by cultivating a positive, collaborative, and results-oriented work environment that encourages productivity and support.
• Technical Guidance: Provide technical expertise and guidance to the project team, covering key areas such as architecture and design decisions, code reviews, documentation practices, project execution standards, and best practices. Additionally, ensure the preservation of artifacts and knowledge throughout the project lifecycle.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with technical stakeholders to gather feedback, understand their requirements, and manage expectations. In partnership with the Project Manager, keep them informed about project progress, risks, and any changes in scope by providing or contributing to weekly status reports, using client-specific or standardized fme templates.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks, challenges, and potential roadblocks, proactively communicating them to the Project Manager. Collaborate with the technical project team to gather detailed information and explore solution options for addressing these risks.
• Change Management: Identify potential change orders and proactively communicate them to the Project Manager. Provide detailed technical scope definitions, estimates, and resource planning for the proposed changes.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the team adheres to quality assurance practices by working closely with QA teams to define test strategies, review test plans, and ensure adequate test coverage. Provide support in identifying and resolving defects and performance issues.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices and identify areas of improvement in internal processes, tools, or implementation and migration practices as well as opportunities for continuous learning and professional development within the technical project team.
• Thought Leadership: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and market developments, and share knowledge and insights through whitepapers, blog posts, webinars, or speaking engagements.
• Pre-sales Support: Support the business development and account management teams by providing technical expertise during the pre-sales phase. Collaborate with these teams to understand client requirements, develop tailored solutions and estimates, and contribute input to proposals.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience in data and document migration, ECM implementation, or related fields, with at least 3 years in a leadership role within the life sciences industry. Extensive experience in architecting, installing, designing, implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting ECM systems and applications.
• Technical Skills: Advanced experience in ECM platforms (e.g., Veeva Vault, OpenText Documentum, Generis CARA), data and document migration tools, SQL, XML, and scripting languages. Experience with cloud-based solutions as well as on-premise solutions.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of life sciences regulations and compliance requirements, including experience with validation processes as well as with GxP-validated systems, processes, and documentation requirements.
• This is a REMOTE position but may require occasional international and domestic travel to project sites or client meetings. Flexible work hours may be necessary to accommodate program timelines and deadlines

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• SQL
• Vault

Benefits

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