Manager, Data Extraction

Manager, Data Extraction

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva OpenData Commercial supports the industry by providing reference data across the complete healthcare ecosystem, to support commercial sales execution, compliance, and business analytics. We drive value to our customers through constant innovation, using cloud-based solutions and state-of-the-art technologies to deliver product excellence and customer success.

The role leads a team of 6-8 data analysts with a strong focus on website data extraction. The team configures crawlers using our toolchain to extract data from websites. The data is handed over to our data platform for processing using Python configuration scripts. The role has a significant impact on customer success, as it is ensuring the freshness and availability of data for our customers. In addition to the crawlers, the team will work on classic analytical tasks, like ad-hoc reports and visual reporting.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of 6-8 analysts, including hiring and performance management
• Manage the team’s workload together with product managers
• Ensure the quality of the extracted data
• Select the right tools for data extraction and crawling for the team
• Ensure timely delivery of extracted data and reports

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience leading a technical team
• Strong understanding of good practices, like version control or code reviews
• Hands on experience building robust and scalable crawlers
• Solid understanding of data structures and data models
• Project and task management skills
• Basic understanding of Python

Nice to Have

• Experience with crawling tools like Mozenda or Zyte
• Experience with Redshift
• Experience with Veeva products, like Network
• Understanding of tool evaluation procedures and vendor selection
• Understanding of master and reference data management

Perks & Benefits

• Benefits package including Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), family health insurance and contributions to private pension plans where applicable
• Annual allocations for charitable contributions
• Fitness reimbursement
• Work from anywhere

Key skills/competency

• Data Extraction
• Team Leadership
• Web Crawling
• Data Analysis
• Python
• Project Management
• Data Quality
• Version Control
• Code Reviews
• Data Platforms