Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

Associate Director, Data Platforms

MA - Waltham - Office, USA · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago
AzureCI/CDDevOpsMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationA/B TestingCybersecurityNetwork SecurityAuditingFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Every member of our Madrigal team is connected by our shared purpose: leading the fight against MASH.
  • Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3).
  • An ongoing Phase 3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c).

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architecture, including Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, OneLake, Data Pipelines, Notebooks, Real-Time Analytics, and Power BI integration.
  • Define and maintain reference architectures, design standards, and best practices for enterprise data platforms.
  • Drive global, multi-region scalability, resiliency, and performance of the data platform.
  • Lead platform modernization, migrations, and roadmap evolution aligned to business needs.
  • Own platform SLAs, SLOs, and operational KPIs (availability, latency, data freshness, cost).
  • Manage platform capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
  • Partner with data engineering teams to ensure pipelines are reliable, scalable, and reusable.
  • Implement metadata management, lineage, auditing, and data classification.
  • Partner closely with the Cyber Security and Risk teams to ensure the data platform complies with enterprise security standards, policies, and controls.
  • Support security reviews, threat modeling, audits, and remediation activities for the data platform.

Requirements

  • 10-12+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or cloud architecture.
  • Strong 2+ hands-on and architectural experience with Microsoft Fabric (or 8+ deep experience in Azure data services with Fabric adoption).
  • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, enterprise data platforms.
  • Experience owning platform SLAs, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Strong understanding of data pipelines, Lakehouse architecture, and data warehousing.
  • Experience with global / multi-region deployments and enterprise security models.
  • Ability to translate business priorities into an actionable analytics strategy.

Nice to have

  • Experience in product-oriented data platforms or data mesh implementations.
  • Familiarity with DevOps / DataOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Experience supporting AI/ML and advanced analytics workloads.
  • Prior leadership experience managing senior engineers or platform teams.
  • Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate business priorities into an actionable analytics strategy.
  • Analytical Excellence: Demonstrates strong quantitative skills and ensures rigor, transparency, and clarity in insights.
  • Influence & Communication: Communicates complex concepts simply, shapes decisions, and engages senior leadership effectively.
  • We comply with all applicable minimum wage laws.

Skills

  • Demonstrates strong quantitative skills and ensures rigor, transparency, and clarity in insights.
  • Drives modernization, automation, and adoption of new technologies.

Compensation

  • As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position, applicable to all candidates, is $177,000 - $216,000 per year.

Benefits

  • Madrigal offers a competitive Total Rewards strategy to attract and retain top talent and is inclusive of base pay, bonus, equity, and a generous benefits package.
  • Full-time employees are eligible for base salary, bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits suite.
  • Base salary is determined by several factors including the candidate's qualifications, skills, education, experience, business needs, and market demands.
  • All full-time employees receive equity, which reinforces our ownership culture and offers meaningful opportunity for our employees to share in the success they help create.
  • We also offer additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life insurance, legal services, and other offerings.
  • In addition, we offer mental health benefits through our Employee Assistance Program for employees and their family.
  • The company also provides other benefits in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Company info

  • Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, need for liver transplantation and premature mortality.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process.
  • We are aware that incorrect/fraudulent email addresses, with Madrigal misspelled, have been utilized in these most recent fraud attempts.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer.

This listing is sourced directly from Madrigal Pharmaceuticals's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.