Solutions Architect

About the role

We’re seeking a Solutions Architect to join us in our mission to revolutionize the discovery of therapeutics and materials. As a member of our Enterprise Informatics team, you’ll work directly with top-tier customers, scientists, and developers to deploy, configure, and tune the company's high-end suite of molecular modeling and enterprise informatics applications and related systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that our enterprise informatics software performs optimally in the customer cloud environments
• Design, develop, implement and support optimal solutions for integration with customers' Biologics discovery workflows, research data systems and platforms
• Help customers solve thorny technical issues by cooperatively building creative, customized solutions, while iterating on a fast schedule
• Work closely with customers on installation, configuration, and update/maintenance of our cloud-hosted software and platform deployments that demand excellent technical expertise
• Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and software developers to improve the deployment, support, configuration and features of our applications

Requirements

• A research data management background in the pharmaceutical industry (or similar scientific data space) with a focus or specialization in Biologics data
• Experience with Biologics discovery platforms, data representations (e.g., HELM) and ETL pipelines for Biologics
• A background in life sciences and/or physics (a formal academic background in the classical sciences is a huge plus!)
• An open to occasional flexibility of schedule and availability for travel to customer sites

Qualifications

• A clear grasp of data wrangling, data science or machine learning, as applied to Biologics research & discovery
• A greater-than-end-user's understanding of Biologics informatics systems and platforms
• A willingness for occasional travel to Schrödinger's offices and customer sites

Skills

• Workflow automation via web-based applications (e.g., REST APIs, SAML/SSO backends, containerized workloads)
• Data wrangling and unified data management
• ETL pipelines for managing complex data with multiple sources and destinations (e.g., SQL databases, JSON, flat files)
• Cloud computing expertise with familiarity in Kubernetes technologies on at least one major cloud provider (e.g., AWS)
• Excellent Linux diagnostic and troubleshooting skills in cloud environments, with good proficiency in writing code and scripts (e.g., Python, bash)
• Problem-solving abilities with a strong focus on iterative development and quick issue resolution in multiple production critical environments
• Excellent communication skills with a willingness to go the extra mile to help our customers and travel to customer sites

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• A wide range of benefits including healthcare (with dental and vision), a 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, a flexible work schedule, and a parental leave program
• Catered meals in the office every day
• A relaxed yet engaged company culture
• Over a month of paid vacation time
• Fun company-wide events planned by the Administrative and Human Resources departments

Pay and Perks

Schrödinger understands it’s people that make a company great. Because of this, we’re prepared to offer a competitive salary, stock options, and a wide range of benefits that include healthcare (with dental and vision), a 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, a flexible work schedule, and a parental leave program. We have catered meals in the office every day, a company culture that is relaxed but engaged, and over a month of paid vacation time. Our Administrative and Human Resources departments also plan a myriad of fun company-wide events.

Estimated base salary range: $105,000 - $155,000. Actual compensation package is dependent on a number of factors, including, for example, experience, education, degrees held, market data, and business needs.

If you have any questions regarding the compensation for this role, do not hesitate to reach out to a member of our Strategic Growth team.