Associate Director, Data Platforms
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals
June 30, 2026
Remote friendly (Waltham, MA)
United States
IT
Associate Director of Data Platforms
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architecture (Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, OneLake, Data Pipelines, Notebooks, Real-Time Analytics, Power BI integration).
- Define reference architectures, design standards, and best practices for enterprise data platforms.
- Drive global, multi-region scalability, resiliency, and performance; lead modernization, migrations, and roadmap evolution.
- Own platform SLAs/SLOs and operational KPIs (availability, latency, data freshness, cost); establish monitoring, alerting, incident management, and on-call.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity; manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Provide architectural oversight for batch/streaming Fabric pipelines; define ingestion/transformation/orchestration/data-quality patterns.
- Enable CI/CD, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code; partner to ensure pipelines are reliable, scalable, reusable.
- Define/enforce data governance, security, and access control; implement metadata management, lineage, auditing, and data classification.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory/privacy/enterprise security requirements; support security reviews, threat modeling, audits, and remediation.
- Act as a technical leader/mentor; collaborate with Analytics, Data Science/AI-ML, Cloud/Security/Architecture teams; influence stakeholders; contribute to vendor evaluation.
Required Qualifications
- 10–12+ years in data engineering/platforms/cloud architecture.
- 2+ hands-on architectural experience with Microsoft Fabric (or 8+ deep Azure data services experience with Fabric adoption).
- Proven experience operating large-scale enterprise data platforms.
- Experience owning platform SLAs and reliability.
- Strong knowledge of data pipelines, Lakehouse, and data warehousing.
- Experience with global/multi-region deployments and enterprise security models.
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Product-oriented data platforms or data mesh.
- DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Experience supporting AI/ML and advanced analytics.
- Prior leadership managing senior engineers/platform teams.
Benefits
- Full-time employees: base salary, bonus, equity; flexible paid time off; medical/dental/vision; life/disability insurance; 401(k) (traditional/Roth/match); supplemental life and legal services; Employee Assistance Program mental health benefits.
Application Instructions
- Apply via Madrigal Careers site (ongoing basis).
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architecture (Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, OneLake, Data Pipelines, Notebooks, Real-Time Analytics, Power BI integration).
- Define reference architectures, design standards, and best practices for enterprise data platforms.
- Drive global, multi-region scalability, resiliency, and performance; lead modernization, migrations, and roadmap evolution.
- Own platform SLAs/SLOs and operational KPIs (availability, latency, data freshness, cost); establish monitoring, alerting, incident management, and on-call.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity; manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Provide architectural oversight for batch/streaming Fabric pipelines; define ingestion/transformation/orchestration/data-quality patterns.
- Enable CI/CD, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code; partner to ensure pipelines are reliable, scalable, reusable.
- Define/enforce data governance, security, and access control; implement metadata management, lineage, auditing, and data classification.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory/privacy/enterprise security requirements; support security reviews, threat modeling, audits, and remediation.
- Act as a technical leader/mentor; collaborate with Analytics, Data Science/AI-ML, Cloud/Security/Architecture teams; influence stakeholders; contribute to vendor evaluation.
Required Qualifications
- 10–12+ years in data engineering/platforms/cloud architecture.
- 2+ hands-on architectural experience with Microsoft Fabric (or 8+ deep Azure data services experience with Fabric adoption).
- Proven experience operating large-scale enterprise data platforms.
- Experience owning platform SLAs and reliability.
- Strong knowledge of data pipelines, Lakehouse, and data warehousing.
- Experience with global/multi-region deployments and enterprise security models.
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Product-oriented data platforms or data mesh.
- DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Experience supporting AI/ML and advanced analytics.
- Prior leadership managing senior engineers/platform teams.
Benefits
- Full-time employees: base salary, bonus, equity; flexible paid time off; medical/dental/vision; life/disability insurance; 401(k) (traditional/Roth/match); supplemental life and legal services; Employee Assistance Program mental health benefits.
Application Instructions
- Apply via Madrigal Careers site (ongoing basis).