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Baylor Genetics · 3 days ago

AVP, Knowledge Informatics

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead, inspire, and mentor multiple scientific and engineering teams to achieve high levels of performance and innovation.

Foster a collaborative, agile, and customer-focused culture to drive continuous improvement in development processes.

Develop and execute the knowledge informatics strategy that aligns with business goals, focusing on clinical diagnostics applications.

Collaborate with Commercial and Business Development teams in data and knowledge commercialization efforts.

Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to ensure the roadmap addresses both short-term needs and long-term growth.

Provide architectural direction on scalable, secure, and efficient applications designed for healthcare use.

Lead teams in utilizing hosted and cloud-native software tools and services for data processing.

Lead the design and implementation of data models and software frameworks to effectively store and process data, information, and clinical insights.

Offer guidance on front-end and back-end software development best practices, ensuring that solutions are aligned with the latest trends in healthcare technology.

Drive the adoption of industry best practices such as Agile, DevOps, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) methodologies.

Encourage experimentation with emerging technologies to enhance data and knowledge processing effectiveness and efficiency, and improve workflows for internal data analysis, interpretation, and clinical report writing in daily production clinical operations.

Oversee the implementation of rigorous software quality standards, ensuring compliance with medical software regulations and other relevant certifications.

Ensure that data and software solutions are built to be functional, reliable, secure, and scalable, while adhering to data privacy regulations such as HIPAA.

This position directly supervises a multi-disciplinary team potentially consisting of clinical informaticians, data engineers, software engineers, and data curators, etc.

This position may also manage contracted onshore and offshore teams.

Qualification

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Human GeneticsClinical InformaticsData ArchitectureKnowledge ManagementData CurationInformation ManagementData IntegrationData ModelsHealthcare Industry ExperienceAgileScrumCI/CD toolsTest-driven developmentKnowledge ExtractionData NormalizationCloud-native Software

Required

Master’s degree in Human Genetics, Biology, Informatics, or a Science/Engineering background with work experience in knowledge informatics; PhD’s degree preferred.

10+ years of professional experience in data curation, clinical informatics, information and knowledge management, with a minimum of 6+ years in a leadership or managerial role.

Proven track record of leading the architecting and development of data, informatics, and knowledge repositories and software platforms.

Extensive experience working cross-functionally with Product, Software Development, Bioinformatics, Clinical Informatics, Compliance/Legal, and other departments to achieve database and software development goals.

Experience in the healthcare industry, developing data platforms, knowledge bases, and software solutions for physicians and patients, is highly desirable.

Expertise in developing scalable, structured and unstructured data models.

Extensive knowledge in proprietary and publicly available knowledge bases and data analysis platforms for human genes, mutations, diseases, and treatment options.

Experience in developing databases and software platforms for information indexing, retrieval, knowledge extraction, and knowledge management.

Experience in developing data curation, data normalization, and data integration tools, workflows, and daily operational processes.

Experience with Agile, Scrum, and other iterative development methodologies.

Experience with CI/CD tools and test-driven development practices.