We are looking for a senior, hands-on Data Architect with applied analytics capability to design and operationalize enterprise-grade data and reporting framework supporting Quality Management Systems (QMS) and regulatory compliance within the Animal Welfare and Integrity office.
This role serves as the sole data and analytics practitioner for the function, responsible for integrating fragmented quality and compliance data, enabling risk-based decision-making, and automating audit-ready workflows supporting Quality, Compliance, Animal Welfare, Biosecurity, and Genetic Integrity programs. This position operates at the intersection of regulatory compliance, quality & animal welfare assurance, risk governance, and enterprise data strategy.
The Location
Remote role
The Pay Range
$70,000 - $75,000. Exact compensation may vary based on several factors. These factors include geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions
What we offer:
- Relocation assistance
- Insurance within 30 days or less which includes options for medical, dental, vision, pet insurance and more!
- 20 days paid time off plus 6 additional holidays and 1 floating holiday
- Annual Bonus Program
- Work life balance
- 401(k) plan with up to 4% employer match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Career advancement opportunities
- Commitment to training and providing you with the skills you need for success
- All employees receive access to 24/7 telemedicine (including mental health), short- and long-term disability and life insurance
If you are looking for a rewarding career and the opportunity to grow, apply today!
The Role:
The Sr Data Analyst - Quality & Compliance will build a centralized, defensible quality data ecosystem that:
- Connects siloed QMS and compliance systems
- Enables leading and lagging risk indicators
- Automates documentation and approval workflows
- Supports inspection readiness and regulatory governance
Builds stand up dashboards and conversational AI interfaces that enable quality and compliance teams ask questions of their data in plain language, and automate the documentation workflows that keep the company compliant across a complex regulatory landscape
Core Responsibilities:
Quality & Animal Welfare Data Architecture & Integration
- Architect and maintain a centralized data layer integrating:
- QMS, CAPA/RCCA, and non-conformance systems
- Clinical, genetic, environmental, biosecurity monitoring data
- Design validated data schemas and controls to ensure auditability and regulatory defensibility
- Build lightweight ETL/ELT pipelines across databases, spreadsheets, and document-based systems without disrupting source platforms
Quality & Animal Welfare Risk and Performance Analytics
- Develop leading and lagging quality indicators dashboards, including:
- Deviation trends, recurrence, and velocity
- Change control backlog, aging, and approval cycle times
- Training compliance drift
- Repeat CAPAs and systemic failure patterns
- Construct weighted risk indices to support risk-based prioritization & RCCA escalation
- Create a unified data layer or knowledge graph that enables cross-system queries
- Deliver executive-ready dashboards for Performance Integrity Review Boards and compliance leadership
- Build self-service reporting tools so quality and compliance teams can answer routine questions without submitting data requests (example: "Show me all GLP deviations from Q3" or "What's the status of our USDA renewal?"
- Implement appropriate guardrails for accuracy and data access control
Approval, Change Control & Compliance Workflow Automation
- Automate regulatory protocol and documentation approvals & submissions, change control, and CAPA workflows:
- Template generation and data auto-population
- Approval routing and status tracking
- Traceability across related quality and regulatory events
- Integrate automation into existing QMS platforms rather than replacing them
- Reduce manual effort, error rates, and cycle time
- Automate the generation, assembly, and routing of regulatory compliance documents across FDA/GLP, USDA/AAALAC, IACUC, and export control workflows
- Build templates, auto-population logic, and approval-routing automation to reduce manual effort and error rates
Inspection & Regulatory Readiness
- Build dashboards supporting inspection readiness, audit response, & accreditation
- Analyze historical findings, deviations, and corrective action