Director, Software Engineering, Clinical Systems

The Role:

Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team that's revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases. As an employee you'll be part of a continually growing organization working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide contributing to global health initiatives. Moderna's commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience with the potential to make a significant impact on patients' lives worldwide.

Moderna is solidifying its presence within our international business services hub in Warsaw, Poland, a city renowned for its rich scientific and technological heritage. This hub provides critical functions meeting the growing demand of Moderna’s global business operations. We're inviting professionals from around the world to join our mission and contribute to the future of mRNA medicines.

We are seeking a senior-level Director of Solution Architecture who excels in both leadership and hands-on technical capabilities, focusing on building and operating high-scale systems for services and data. This role will be integral to the creation of a clinical development ecosystem, integrating homegrown systems with external vendors to streamline and revolutionize clinical trial data management. You will drive innovation in clinical development activities, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI to enhance the efficiency and quality of clinical data. With a proactive, collaborative attitude, the successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, continuous delivery culture while influencing both internal and external teams.

Here's What You’ll Do:

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead the architecture and design of a clinical data ecosystem to aggregate and harmonize data from multiple sources and build closed-loop systems.
• Develop and implement data pipelines to streamline data ingestion, cleaning, and transformation processes.
• Lead the design and development of complex software systems, ensuring robustness, scalability, and security.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability while mentoring a technical team.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including data management, clinical operations, and external vendors, to create a cohesive technical strategy for Moderna.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices in data security.
• Promoting a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and technical excellence within the engineering team.
• Overseeing system designs within the broader scope, making well-supported tradeoffs in complex situations.
• Serving as a technical adviser at both Director and VP levels, providing architectural guidance and driving strategic roadmaps for long-term technical vision.

The key Moderna Mindsets you’ll need to succeed in the role:

• Digitize Everywhere Possible: You will champion the integration of AI and digital tools in the clinical data ecosystem, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Act with Urgency: Your leadership will be critical in fast-tracking innovations and solutions in clinical development, reflecting Moderna’s mission to advance mRNA medicines quickly and effectively.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software development or 10 years with an advanced degree.
• 6-8 years of experience in leading API-first infrastructure software development efforts, from design to troubleshooting.
• 5+ years experience leading technical teams and implementing engineering products at an executive level within multinational organizations.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Experience landing outcomes across a broad range of products and technologies, walking the line between necessary product heterogeneity and platform centralization.
• Experience with Responsible AI.
• Experience with working with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Experience working across highly horizontal areas requiring a high-degree of cross-organizational collaboration and coordination.
• Understanding of ML Systems and infrastructure for production with technical knowledge to be credible with customers and engineers.
• Experience growing team capabilities through role modeling and mentoring.
• Ability to perform technical deep-dives into code, networking, operating systems, and compute infrastructure.
• Ability to make well-supported tradeoffs in complex situations.

Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work.

We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with:

• Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
• Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
• Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
• Family planning and adoption benefits
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Educational resources
• Savings and investments
• Location-specific perks and extras!

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world. 

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

As we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine, we invite you to visit modernatx.com/careers to learn more about our current opportunities.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply!

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Belonging, Inclusion, and Diversity are critical to the success of our company and our impact on society. We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees and believe that by cultivating diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we can provide an environment where every employee is able to contribute their best.

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should

contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at leavesandaccommodations@modernatx.com.

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