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About the Role
As the Associate Director of Data Engineering, you will lead the team responsible for Formation Bio's data platform. You will be accountable for the pipelines, warehouse, and data products, ensuring their efficient and high-quality development. This role involves fostering an environment where engineers can grow and perform at their best, utilizing AI-native approaches for data platform development. You will clarify ownership, strengthen reliability and governance, and increase the speed at which trusted data supports critical business functions. Partnering closely with various departments, you will set technical direction, unblock your team, and promote a culture of trusted, well-governed data.
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop a team of data engineers, including setting goals, delivering feedback, and managing performance.
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for data engineering, prioritizing work across data quality, governance, scalability, and stakeholder experience.
- Partner with key stakeholders on the design and delivery of pipelines and data models that support operational reporting, asset evaluation, and advanced analytics and ML use cases.
- Oversee the architecture and maintenance of the data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and the Snowflake warehouse.
- Ensure the team establishes and maintains strong data quality, observability, lineage, and documentation practices.
- Own data governance practices for regulated and sensitive data, including access controls, auditability, and traceability.
- Review and provide feedback on requirements and design documents for new data products and pipelines.
- Drive knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring on data engineering fundamentals and modern data tooling.
- Own the team's support rotation coverage for data platform incidents.
- Manage team budgeting, resourcing, and reporting for data engineering initiatives.
Requirements
- 7+ years of total experience across hands-on data engineering and people management.
- 3+ years directly managing Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, or similar.
- Experience building and managing data systems.
- Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
- Ability to give direct, actionable feedback and set clear expectations.
- Skilled at directing a team that uses AI tools, including LLMs and agentic coding systems, as a core part of how they build.
- Strong point of view on modern data stack tooling: warehousing (Snowflake), orchestration (e.g. Dagster or Airflow), transformation (e.g. dbt), and the tradeoffs between batch and streaming approaches.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders.
- Experience managing or coordinating technical projects and programs, including resource budgeting, estimates, tracking, and reporting.
- Working knowledge of data governance, access control, and auditability practices.
- Working knowledge of Python, SQL, Docker, GitHub, and Terraform/OpenTofu.
- Experience overseeing data quality frameworks, testing, and observability tooling for production data pipelines.
- Experience with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or broader life-sciences industry data is a plus.
Skills
- Data Engineering
- People Management
- AI Tools
- LLMs
- Agentic Coding Systems
- Snowflake
- Dagster
- Airflow
- dbt
- Python
- SQL
- Docker
- GitHub
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Data Governance
- Access Control
- Auditability
- Data Quality Frameworks
- Testing
- Observability Tooling
Location
- New York City metro area
- Boston metro area
- Research Triangle (NC)
- San Francisco Bay Area
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years total experience
- 3+ years management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $213,500 - $267,000
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits
- Generous perks
About the Company
- Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharma company focused on efficient drug development.
- Advancements in AI and drug discovery have created more candidate drugs than the industry can progress due to the high cost and time of clinical trials.
- Formation Bio has built technology platforms, processes, and capabilities to accelerate all aspects of drug development and clinical trials.
- The company partners, acquires, or in-licenses drugs to develop programs past clinical proof of concept and beyond.
- Formation Bio is backed by investors including a16z, Sequoia, Sanofi, Thrive Capital, John Doerr, Spark Capital, and SV Angel Growth.
- The company's values are the driving force behind its mission to revolutionize the pharma industry.
Equal Opportunity
- Formation Bio is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.