I'm a computer science engineer, working in the Pharmaceutical RWE domain for 2 years.
Even though I like the impact that my job creates, I often find myself wondering if I can actually get to a high position (e.g. CEO, Director of DS dept.) for a pharmaceutical company being from a technical background.
Please guide me.

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Doesn't seem like it.
MD, CEO, are people usually from business background. And by business i mean who are in sales and marketing. They drive the business forward (at least) in Indian context.
From data science the trajectory can be till strategy head, to the best of my knowledge. However there are exceptions everywhere so can't say

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