About Signant Health
At Signant Health, we help bring life-changing treatments to patients faster. We are a global evidence generation company that supports clinical trials with smart technology, scientific expertise, and hands-on operational support — so better data leads to better decisions in healthcare. We embrace AI and advanced technologies to enhance every aspect of what we do, from data analysis to operational efficiency.
Our teams work at the intersection of science, technology, and patient experience, delivering digital solutions powered by AI innovation that make clinical trials more efficient, more accurate, and more accessible around the world. Trusted by leading pharmaceutical companies and CROs, our platforms and services support studies across more than 90 countries and have contributed to hundreds of new drug approvals.
If you are motivated by meaningful work, global impact, and innovation in clinical research and digital health — including the opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies — you will find purpose and opportunity at Signant Health.
About the Role:
The Senior Technology Lead (TL) is the key stakeholder for product domain(s) and its component(s) and represents agile teams and technical user stories and enablers acceptance criteria for R&D. The Senior TL is a hands-on technical leader with deep data engineering expertise, including Snowflake, who sets technical direction and personally contributes to architecture, design, and code review, while coordinating and enabling the team to deliver.
They are accountable within their area of responsibility for the execution of the detailed roadmap and product architecture, and on time delivery of complex applications, services, and/or systems. The Senior TL is responsible for decomposition of Epics into technical user stories and enablers. Additionally, the Senior TL manages the sequencing of backlog items; working with the Product Lead to understand and define technical release obstacles. The Senior TL should have a solid understanding of technical release obstacles, the sequencing of backlog items and the product management prioritization and be accountable for iteration ceremonies and their documented outcomes. Senior TL will ensure the delivery of robust and efficient code while following the best practices and standards defined by the organization. The senior TL will collaborate with organizational leaders to create a vision, define implementation plans, and communicate these transparently to whom it may concern.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES - Function
- Technical and domain expert, with strong hands-on experience in data platforms: Snowflake, data modeling, ELT/ETL pipelines, and performance and cost optimization.
- Leads architecture and design decisions and performs code and design reviews to keep quality high.
- Coordinates the team day to day: sequences the backlog, removes technical blockers, and keeps work flowing across engineers, QA, and product.
- Partners with Product Leads to turn Epics into technical stories and enablers, with clear acceptance criteria.
- Works with architects and engineers on build-vs-buy decisions and on data design that is scalable, secure, and compliant.
- Mentors engineers and, where applicable, other tech leads.
- Owns scrum team delivery and execution.
- Owns feature refinement, Story creation acceptance.
- Assess build vs buy decisions for major system components.
- (If line manager): Experience leading software development teams to successful implementations and/or managerial experience over technical teams..
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
Essential:
- Proven, hands-on experience with Snowflake and modern data engineering (SQL, data modeling, pipelines, orchestration, data quality).
- Strong technical background: has designed, built, and shipped complex systems, and can credibly review code and architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate and lead a team: planning, unblocking, and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in regulated environments (clinical or GxP) highly desirable, including data integrity and validation.
- Ability to (verbally and in-writing) communicate clearly and succinctly complex project plans, design, and technical issues, as well as business and product requirements.
- Strong organizational, time-management, analytical and decision-making skills to efficiently evaluate, plan, and accomplish personal work goals.
- Detailed working knowledge of a System/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Solid understanding of technical release obstacles and how to overcome them.
- Experience in designing, implementing, and testing complex systems.
- Previous demonstrated success in gathering information from a wide variety of sources and subsequently crafting it into effective and audience-appropriate technical and non-technical documentation.
- Proven track record of success analyzing, defining, and overseeing requirements for advanced and complex applications, products and/or integrations of advanced complexity.
- Proven track record in managing the requirements definition process and synthesizing for a variety of stakeholders representing large and complex organizations.
- Demonstrated capacity to effectively follow established processes to ensure the successful transfer of complex technical, process and organizational knowledge.
- Keen listening skills and ability to empathize with speaker’s point through verbal and non-verbal cues.
- Proven ability to work in a team-oriented work culture, providing back-up support to team members & establishing/maintaining effective work relationships with co-workers within and across functional areas necessary.
- Experience working in a regulated technical environment and/or previous experience with clinical software highly desirable.
Desirable:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical major.
- Demonstrated experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- 5+ years functioning as Product Owner or similar
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Skills Required
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and modern data engineering, including SQL, data modeling, pipelines, orchestration, and data quality
- Strong technical background designing, building, and delivering complex systems; ability to review code and architecture
- Experience coordinating and leading technical teams through planning, issue resolution, and stakeholder communication
- Experience designing, implementing, and testing complex systems
- Detailed working knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Experience defining and overseeing requirements for complex applications, products, or integrations
- Experience managing requirements definition and synthesizing information for varied stakeholders
- Ability to create effective technical and non-technical documentation
- Strong organizational, analytical, decision-making, communication, and time-management skills
- Experience in a regulated technical environment or clinical software
- Experience with data integrity and validation in clinical or GxP environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrated experience
- Five or more years of experience functioning as a Product Owner or in a similar role
- Managerial experience leading software development or technical teams, if serving as a line manager
What We Do
Signant Health helps sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) digitally enable clinical trials and generate reliable evidence to advance therapies. Its eClinical platform and services support patient engagement and remote or site-based studies, including electronic clinical outcome assessments, eConsent, randomization and trial supply management, and data quality analytics. The company combines software with therapeutic, scientific, and operational expertise across traditional, virtual, and hybrid trial models.
