Every decision at Formation Bio, from which drug asset to pursue to how a trial is run, is only as good as the data underneath it. As the Associate Director of Data Engineering, you’ll lead the team responsible for that data platform, and this role is about multiplying their impact: you’re accountable for the pipelines, warehouse, and data products they build, for how fast and how well they build them, and for creating the conditions in which the engineers who build and operate them can grow, perform at a high level, and sustain that performance over time.
This is an AI-native engineering organization, and for this team that means building the data platform itself in an AI-native way. We expect you and your team to be fluent, fast, and always pushing the edge of what modern AI tools, including agentic coding systems, can do as a core part of how the team builds pipelines, models data, investigates data quality issues, and improves engineering workflows. You should coach your team to treat AI as a permanent force multiplier, not a novelty, while instilling the judgment needed to validate its output and operate trustworthy data systems, especially where clinical and regulated data are involved.
In this role, you will lead a team of data engineers and evolve an established data platform for Formation Bio’s next stage of growth. You will clarify ownership, separate concerns where needed, strengthen reliability and governance, and increase the speed at which trusted data supports clinical operations, asset evaluation, and company decision-making. Partnering closely with Data Science, Analytics, Clinical Operations, Biostatistics, and Business Development, you will set technical direction and priorities, unblock your team, represent data engineering needs in cross-functional planning, and promote a culture of trusted, well-governed data throughout the company.
This position is ideal for a manager who leads from the front: someone who is passionate about developing engineers, sets a high bar for pace and rigor, and builds a team that makes it easy and fast for the rest of the company to find, trust, and use data. Your experience with engineering management, technical leadership, and data platform architecture will be instrumental in driving Formation Bio’s mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.