Sr. Director, Research Informatics
LifeMine Therapeutics
Company Description
LifeMine Therapeutics is reinventing drug discovery by mining fungal biodiversity to develop novel therapeutics to address previously intractable therapeutic challenges. Through its drug discovery engine and proprietary fungal strain collections, LifeMine has discovered, in genomic space, hundreds of potentially high-impact drug candidates relevant to targets across all major disease areas.
LifeMine is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and has its European Headquarters in Basel, Europe’s biotechnology hub.
Job Summary
LifeMine Therapeutics is seeking an experienced, highly motivated, and versatile informatics Leader to partner with the R&D teams to provide system solutions to drug discovery and clinical development to empower and transform scientific operations.
You’ll be part of a data science team with responsibilities across discovery and clinical development focusing on improving scientific operation efficiency with data and system solutions.
The ideal candidate is experienced in providing system solutions to research teams, excellent understanding and grasp of the business and scientific context and demonstrated technical proficiency.
Job Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for all relevant scientific data management, inventory management, scientific operation workflow tools, and their integration.
- Work closely with discovery teams and data scientists for support and continued improvement of discovery informatics solutions including LIMS, data warehouse, workflow management, and data/system integration.
- Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for all relevant scientific data management, inventory management, scientific operation workflow tools, and their integration.
- Work closely with discovery teams and data scientists for support and continued improvement of discovery informatics solutions including LIMS, data warehouse, workflow management, and data/system integration.
Job Requirements
- Ph.D. in Informatics, Computer Science, or a relevant scientific field
- Solid training in computer science and software development is highly desirable.
- 10+ years in the biopharmaceutical industry directly supporting discovery and development is a must.
- Demonstrated leadership experience leading enterprise solutions and a team in a multi-disciplinary R&D setting. Experience with LIMS, scientific data management, compound management, sample inventory, instrument data capture, assay results, and electronic laboratory notebooks is a must-have.
- Experience supporting clinical development team is a plus.
- Experience with cloud technology integration, processes, and security good practices (AWS-focused)
- Programming experience in Python and SQL
- Experience with pipeline tools such as Nextflow
- Familiarity with high performance cloud computing
- Experience with end-user web-application development
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with and build strong working relationships with diverse business partners, including senior executives.
- Extremely curious and intellectually capable of developing an understanding of business and scientific contexts.
LifeMine is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We kindly request no solicitations by agencies or firms regarding this role.