Hybrid Senior Director, IT R&D, Clinical Systems

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About the role

  • Senior Director for IT R&D and Clinical Systems at Arvinas, a biotechnology company dedicated to improving patient lives through innovative therapies.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Director, IT R&D and Clinical Systems serves as the strategic IT business partner for the R&D and Clinical organizations, supporting early drug discovery through clinical development
  • This role is accountable for shaping and executing the R&D and Clinical IT roadmap, translating scientific and clinical objectives into scalable, compliant, cost-effective, and integrated technology capabilities that enable high-quality science and operational excellence
  • This individual will work closely with Arvinas’ R&D and Clinical team members to gain a deep understanding of the operations and objectives of each team and then develop multi-year IT capability roadmaps
  • The Senior Director has end-to-end accountability for all R&D and Clinical systems, non-GxP laboratory IT systems, scientific computing environments, and high-performance computing (HPC) platforms that support computational chemistry, bioinformatics, structural biology, and modeling and simulation activities
  • This individual will ensure these environments are reliable, secure, performant, and well-integrated with upstream and downstream data platforms while remaining fit for rapid scientific iteration
  • The Senior Director will lead and develop a high-performing R&D and Clinical IT team and will define, select, communicate, and manage strategic IT service providers and vendors to ensure the right mix of internal capabilities and external partnerships
  • This includes accountability for service quality, delivery outcomes, cost effectiveness, and alignment with scientific and clinical priorities
  • The position requires a strong understanding of integrated scientific and clinical workflows, regulated systems, and data flows across discovery, preclinical, and clinical environments
  • This position will work closely with core R&D and Clinical functions at Arvinas, including biology, chemistry, cheminformatics, proteomics, compound management, laboratory automation, bioinformatics, DMPK, clinical data management and biostatistics, and clinical operations
  • The individual must have a proven ability to lead significant projects, deliver, integrate, and maintain high-quality R&D systems and Clinical systems, and work with the teams to design a roadmap of the R&D and Clinical systems for the next 3-5 years.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in life sciences IT support
  • Demonstrated experience serving as a senior IT business partner to R&D and/or Clinical leadership, translating scientific and clinical strategies into multi-year technology and data capability roadmaps
  • Experience leading IT organizations, including operating model design, prioritization, integrated solutions, and portfolio management
  • Proven experience defining, selecting, and managing strategic IT service providers and vendors, including contract negotiation, service-level management, and cost optimization
  • Experience overseeing high-performance computing (HPC) and/or scientific computing environments
  • Familiarity with on-premise and/or cloud-based HPC architectures, capacity planning, and cost-performance tradeoffs
  • Experience with laboratory operational requirements and the balance between flexibility, reliability, and security in research environments
  • Demonstrated experience leading organizational change and driving adoption of new technologies within R&D and Clinical organizations
  • Must have project management experience (Project Management Certification a plus)
  • Strong interpersonal effectiveness, able to build trust and drive adoption of new software platforms
  • Demonstrated flexibility in being able to flex to operational work as needed
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Very strong business analysis skills, problem-solving techniques, and follow-up
  • Experience with GxP guidance and controls
  • Experience with Research processes (internal and external) and related systems (e.g. ELN, compound registration and inventory, assay and protocol management, SAR analysis and visualization solutions)
  • Experience with Clinical processes and related systems (e.g. eTMF, SAS, CTMS)
  • Broad understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure domains (networking, compute, operating systems, and cloud services) sufficient to guide architectural decisions and collaborate effectively with infrastructure and security teams
  • Experience with IT process, ITIL, and ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow, etc.) is highly desirable
  • Experience with Clinical electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) systems (especially Veeva Vault eTMF)
  • The duties of this role are generally conducted in a combination of company office and home office environments. Employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to lift/carry 15/30 pounds unassisted/assisted; work comfortable in a controlled environment with and around biological, infectious and hazardous materials; gown/degown PPE; use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving, analysis and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

Benefits

  • group medical, vision and dental coverage
  • group and supplemental life insurance
  • competitive package of base and incentive compensation

Job title

Senior Director, IT R&D, Clinical Systems

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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