Senior Principal Technical Data Specialist (LATAM)

Role overview Serve as the senior individual contributor shaping technical data management strategy and governance across clinical research programs in Latin America. This role sets enterprise expectations for data specifications, platform architecture, testing, integration, migration, and archival, while guiding high-impact decisions and resolving the most complex technical risks.

Responsibilities - Set standards for requirements quality and traceability, advise on novel study designs, and resolve critical requirements issues across programs. - Govern technical specifications, including case report form-aligned templates and design principles; create data transfer agreements and arbitrate consequential design choices. - Establish database architecture and delivery expectations, advising on platform capabilities, interoperability, emerging AI use, and systemic risk. - Define testing standards and quality thresholds, support assurance for critical validation issues, and sponsor advanced automation. - Guide major migrations, platform transitions, production changes, and database archival; direct responses to deployment or archival risks. - Shape integration and data-cleaning workbench strategy, including operating models, data lineage, controls, and interoperability. - Represent the function in governance and sponsor forums, build technical capability, and lead improvements to quality, compliance, and inspection readiness.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent training and experience; typically 12 or more years of related experience. - A record of enterprise- or portfolio-level technical leadership and delivery of major improvements or transformations. - Expert knowledge of clinical data strategy, governance, compliance, inspection readiness, and industry practices. - Deep expertise across clinical data platforms, electronic data capture, integrations, data flows, standards, testing, migration, and archival. - Ability to set requirements, specification, testing, quality, traceability, and governance expectations across an organization. - Strong judgment and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders, sponsors, vendors, and technical teams, and to guide complex, high-risk decisions.

Nice to have An advanced degree or recognized technical leadership credentials, with demonstrated expertise in enterprise strategy, architecture, governance, compliance, or transformation.

Benefits and work setup The position is described as remote and focused on regional data management capabilities across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Peru. Candidates must be authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship.