At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.
Summary:
The Technical Engineering Lead is responsible for the technology strategy, architecture, delivery, and lifecycle management for analytics and AI capabilities supporting Clinical Operations — anchored today in GDO Workbench, with a remit that extends to analytical and AI needs surfacing elsewhere across Drug Development.
This role serves as the senior technology leader partnering with Global Development Operations and BI&T leadership to deliver digital solutions that improve study execution, increase operational efficiency, enable AI-driven decision making, and accelerate the delivery of medicines to patients.
The successful candidate will lead a matrixed team of architects, engineers, data specialists, and vendor partners while driving platform modernization, enterprise integration, and AI-enabled innovation across Clinical Operations.
Key Responsibilities:
Product & Technology Leadership:
• Define and execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Clinical Operations Intelligence platforms.
• Partner with business, product, and digital leaders to translate strategic priorities into technology solutions.
• Drive innovation through analytics, AI, automation, and digital capabilities.
• Ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value and user adoption.
• Serve as the trusted advisor for platform capabilities, scalability, and future direction.
Architecture & Platform Strategy:
• Own the target-state architecture for GDO Workbench and related platforms.
• Lead platform modernization and technology transformation initiatives.
• Define architecture across applications, data, analytics, cloud, and integrations.
• Drive decisions related to platform convergence, data architecture, and enterprise integration.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise technology, security, and data standards.
Delivery & Engineering Leadership:
• Lead cross-functional teams responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple product pods and development workstreams.
• Establish delivery governance and release management processes.
• Drive execution excellence through Agile product delivery and engineering best practices.
• Balance innovation, stability, technical debt reduction, and operational efficiency.
Data, Analytics & AI Enablement:
• Partner with Data Products and enterprise data teams to deliver integrated data and analytics solutions.
• Enable AI-driven insights, intelligent recommendations, automation, and decision-support capabilities.
• Drive adoption of modern data platforms and scalable analytics architecture.
• Support self-service analytics and next-generation digital user experiences.
Stakeholder & Governance Leadership:
• Build strong partnerships across Global Development Operations, BI&T, R&D, and enterprise technology teams.
• Present technology roadmaps, architecture recommendations, risks, and investment opportunities to senior leadership.
• Lead governance discussions supporting platform strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions.
• Influence outcomes across highly matrixed organizations and external partners.
Quality, Compliance & Risk Management:
• Ensure all solutions meet BMS quality, security, privacy, compliance, and…