Full-service CRO managing clinical trials across 46 countries
Medpace is a global clinical research organization managing Phase I-IV trials for pharma, biotech, and medical device companies. The stack reveals heavy reliance on SAS, PACS, and legacy Microsoft tools (Access, Project) alongside emerging cloud migration (Azure, AWS, Power Platform adoption); this pattern—combined with explicit pain points around modernizing aging applications and legacy systems—signals an organization mid-transformation from on-premise clinical infrastructure to cloud-native data analytics. Research and healthcare roles dominate the hiring mix (432 of 830 open positions), matching their core CRO operations.
Notable leadership hires: Technical Lead, Medical Director, Nephrologist Medical Director, Facilities Director, Clinical Operations Director
Medpace is a publicly traded clinical contract research organization headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, with approximately 6,200 employees across 46 countries. The company provides end-to-end clinical development services—from early-phase research through post-market surveillance—across oncology, cardiology, metabolic disease, CNS, and anti-infective domains. Services span clinical trial design, regulatory affairs, medical writing, biostatistics, and drug safety. Medpace serves biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device manufacturers seeking to accelerate therapeutic development through localized regulatory expertise and deep therapeutic knowledge.
SAS for biostatistics, PACS for imaging, Microsoft Office and Access for legacy workflows, plus cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and emerging adoption of Power BI, Tableau, and Python for analytics modernization.
Scaling clinical operations while modernizing legacy systems to cloud infrastructure. Explicit pain points include patient recruitment, expanding regulatory capacity, and streamlining feasibility workflows across global sites.
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