Sr. Manager, Bioinformatics Operations (Hybrid) - West

Sr. Manager, Bioinformatics Operations (Hybrid) - West

As the Regional Manager of the Bioinformatics Operations (Applications) team, you will lead the west region directly contributing to our focus of delivering actionable diagnostic insights that enable superior patient care. The focus of this role is to oversee and deliver high quality, stable and efficient Bioinformatics Applications in our genetic laboratories. You will work in an agile environment, foster innovation and lead the team in validating, supporting, and extending fully automated clinical-grade bioinformatics applications that meet the needs of our customers. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, Product Owners, Bioinformatics Research Engineers, Laboratory / Medical Scientists, and Enterprise IT etc. You will ensure the appropriate service levels and sample TATs are maintained. In collaboration with stakeholders, this leader will define and implement the vision, strategy, and roadmap for quality products across the region both on prem and in the cloud.

This professional will work out of Company’s Southern CA office in a hybrid capacity (3 days onsite)

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of bioinformaticians and drive accountability in order to support clinical genomics operations.
• Efficiently manage the daily bioinformatics support needs, meeting business SLAs and TAT targets.
• Work closely with the laboratory operations team to support samples moving through production.
• Manage incidents through timely and effective communication, collaboration, escalation and expeditious resolution of issues.
• Define and improve on-call schedules for incident response.
• Creatively organize, build, and schedule a team of employees to provide full operational coverage across the region.
• Maintain logs, audit trails, and health monitoring dashboards for operational resilience.
• Monitor daily operational performance metrics and proactively address bottlenecks.
• Manage the systems associated with Bioinformatics Operations that support the production samples on premises and in the cloud.
• Familiarize and use the electronic document management systems, as needed for appropriate compliance documentation need.
• Leverage planning and software development tools like Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, Smartsheets, , etc., to effectively document, communicate and align with the teams.
• Drive configuration, adoption and efficient usage of ticketing tools like ServiceNow.
• Ensure raw and processed data integrity, retention and secure archival in line with Company policies. Collaborate with respective IT teams as needed.
• Work with Data Governance teams to maintain metadata accuracy and controlled access.
• Lead and manage validation, quality control, documentation, automation, and support cross functional bioinformatics projects.
• Collaborate with bioinformatics research and engineering teams on software version upgrades, tech. transfer, and product launches.
• Work with engineering teams to maximize the quality and safety of our product offerings by expanding our existing CI / CD pipelines and layering them with data-driven process controls for daily product integrity checks.
• Support our culture of continuous improvement with a will to win. Continuously work to employ agile methodology principles and improve best practices in software development, software deployment, process documentation with application and workflow version controls, and automated testing that satisfies, at minimum, requirements from accreditation / regulatory bodies such as CAP, CLIA, ISO and the FDA.
• Engage and synchronize efforts with other regional managers across the US and the EU.
• Implement a framework for competency training, mentoring the team and assessment across the support staff.
• Evaluate the talent level of employees, annual goal setting, and drive actions to develop employee talent and address performance issues.
• Identify and provide training and career growth opportunities for team members, with focus on upskilling.

People Leadership Responsibilities : Team of technical resources 5-7 full-time employees and contractors.

Qualifications

Required :

Preferred :

Competencies :

Education :

B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. (Required)

MSc / PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics (Preferred)

Certifications :

Agile Certification (Preferred)