Lead Bioinformatics Data Engineer, SOM, Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease

Benefits

All full?time university staff are eligible for VCU's robust benefits package that includes comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, generous tuition benefits, retirement planning and savings options, tax?deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well?being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more.

Unit / Department

Unit : SOM

Department : Stravitz?Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease

Position Summary

Join the Stravitz?Sanyal Institute on the ground floor of an ambitious program to build multi?omics resources for the global liver research community. You will work alongside luminaries and key opinion leaders in the fields of liver and metabolic health to accelerate and translate discoveries in disease biology. You will be the principal engineer who architects, implements, and evangelizes the data engineering stack that turns multimodal data into analysis?ready assets, powering institutional and global research efforts. The role combines deep hands?on work with technical leadership : you will set standards, guide architecture, and mentor peers.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic architecture Define long?term data storage strategies and governance patterns that guarantee usability and scalability.
• Pipeline engineering Design and maintain ETL / ELT and workflow?managed pipelines (e.g., Nextflow, Snakemake) that ingest, transform, and harmonize multi?format data.
• Cloud & HPC enablement Optimize processing on HPC and cloud infrastructure while remaining interoperable.
• Data products & APIs Collaborate closely with bioinformatics scientists to deliver versioned data products with programmatic access, which feed visualization tools and support statistical workflows.
• Quality, security & compliance Institute robust validation, provenance capture, and access?control measures. Align with institutional policies.
• Technical leadership Establish coding standards, CI / CD, infrastructure?as?code, and mentor junior engineers and analysts. Be a champion for a reproducible research culture.
• Technology radar Continuously evaluate emerging technologies that can support the mission of the Institute.

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Contact Information

Contact Name : Demetria Patterson

Contact Email : demetria.patterson1@

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