Lead – Commercial Data Engineering & Data Product

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a DT Lead, Commercial Data Engineering & Data Product to join us in our Digital Technology team, based out of our office in Atlanta, GA (on-site, hybrid)

About the role

The DT Lead, Commercial Data Engineering & Data Products is responsible for the strategy, delivery, operation, and continuous evolution of U.S. Commercial data engineering and data products on the NextGen platform. This leader combines deep technical expertise in Azure, Databricks, and modern data engineering with a product-oriented mindset to ensure commercial data assets are trusted, reusable, scalable, and aligned to business outcomes.

The role owns the lifecycle of commercial data products from design and delivery through adoption, operation, enhancement, and retirement. Responsibilities include establishing standards for data quality, data contracts, lineage, observability, testing, governance, and operational support. The position also defines and enables enterprise-aligned semantic models, certified business definitions, and reusable data products that support reporting, analytics, machine learning, AI, and future agent-enabled capabilities.

Who you’ll work with 

The role partners closely with Commercial stakeholders, Product Owners, Data Management & Governance, Reporting, Advanced Analytics, AI Enablement, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, and external delivery partners.

What you’ll do

Commercial Data Products & Enterprise Semantic Models

• Own the lifecycle of Commercial data products from onboarding through retirement.
• Define product ownership, consumer needs, data contracts, quality standards, service levels, and roadmaps.
• Drive adoption of certified, reusable data products across reporting, analytics, AI, and business teams.

Data Engineering & Architecture

• Lead the Commercial Data Engineering team responsible for data onboarding, integration, transformation, publishing, and production support.
• Define engineering standards across the NextGen platform, including architecture, data quality, lineage, security, testing, and operational readiness.
• Deliver scalable Azure and Databricks solutions using modern engineering practices, automation, and reusable frameworks.
• Establish enterprise-aligned semantic models, reusable business definitions, and certified metrics that support analytics, reporting, and AI solutions.
• Ensure interoperability between Databricks, Fabric, Snowflake, Power BI, and future enterprise platforms.

Commercial Data Domain Leadership

• Serve as the technology lead for Commercial data domains including customer, HCP/HCO, claims, payer, specialty pharmacy, patient services, omnichannel, territory, and master data.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Data Management, Data Governance, and external vendors to ensure trusted, compliant, and fit-for-purpose commercial data assets.
• Oversee onboarding, lifecycle management, quality, and operational support of internal and third-party commercial data sources.
• Drive standardization and reuse of commercial data assets and data products across Reporting, Analytics, AI, and Commercial Operations teams.

Platform Operations & Reliability

• Ensure the reliability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency of Commercial data products and pipelines.
• Lead incident, problem, change, and release management while driving automation and continuous improvement.
• Establish support models, operational runbooks, service-level expectations, and build-to-run governance.

AI-Ready Data Foundations

• Enable trusted data products for Machine Learning, RAG, Databricks Genie, copilots, agents, and future AI capabilities.
• Partner with AI and Data Science teams to support feature engineering, retrieval pipelines, model inputs, and operational requirements.
• Ensure AI solutions leverage governed, secure, traceable, and high-quality data assets.

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead internal teams and delivery partners while building long-term organizational capability.
• Own the Commercial Data Engineering and Data Product roadmap, balancing business priorities, platform modernization, reliability, and future AI enablement.

Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of progressive data engineering or cloud data platform experience, including technical leadership of complex enterprise delivery and operations.
• Prior experience in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• Prior experience across commercial data domains such as claims, HCP/customer, payer, patient services, specialty pharmacy, omnichannel, territory, or master data.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks (or AWS/ Google Cloud), including Python, SQL, Spark, Delta Lake or lakehouse patterns, orchestration, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting
• Experience delivering trusted data products for Power BI/Fabric, advanced analytics, machine learning, RAG, copilots, or agent-enabled applications.
• Experience designing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, metadata-driven ingestion, reusable transformation frameworks, and automated data-quality controls.
• Demonstrated data product experience, including product definition, ownership, consumer alignment, data contracts, quality and service measures, roadmap management, adoption, and lifecycle decisions.
• Experience with Unity Catalog or comparable governance capabilities, including access controls, metadata, lineage, classification, and environment promotion.
• Experience with Git-based development, CI/CD, release controls, automated testing, observability, and incident management.
• Working knowledge of AI/ML and GenAI data requirements, including features, RAG or vector data, model and agent integration, telemetry, security, and supportability.
• Experience leading engineers and third-party partners and communicating technical risks and tradeoffs to business and senior stakeholders.

Preferred:

• Experience delivering trusted data products for Power BI/Fabric, advanced analytics, machine learning, RAG, copilots, or agent-enabled applications.

This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $148,000 - $194,000. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.   

Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you! 

About us 
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are over 9.000 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science. 

Why work with us? 
At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We ‘go beyond’ to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that’s on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential. 

At UCB, we’ve embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless explicitly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on [email protected] for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.