Vice President - Early Detection Informatics

Job Responsibilities

• Provide executive oversight for the design, implementation, reliability, and scalability of bioinformatics and data engineering pipelines integrating sequencing platforms, laboratory systems, and clinical data sources.
• Oversee development, orchestration, and production deployment of bioinformatics workflows supporting early detection assays.
• Establish and enforce canonical data models, metric definitions, dataset versioning, and change control across research, validation, and production environments.
• Ensure data integrity, auditability, traceability, and compliance with GxP and regulatory expectations.
• Define and implement cloud-based or hybrid compute strategies enabling high-throughput analysis, reproducible execution, and model retraining.
• Own SLAs, uptime targets, monitoring frameworks, alerting, and assay turnaround time for production pipelines supporting clinical reporting.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing informatics and bioinformatics team.
• Set departmental goals, OKRs, budgets, roadmaps, and operating cadence aligned to corporate and regulatory priorities.
• Establish governance models, performance metrics, and stakeholder engagement frameworks.
• Champion a culture of scientific rigor, accountability, transparency, data integrity, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in Data Science, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10 or more years of experience building and operating production-grade analytics or bioinformatics solutions in diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or high-throughput laboratory environments.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python, SQL, and data engineering fundamentals including ETL/ELT, orchestration, APIs, and scalable workflows.
• Extensive experience with bioinformatics pipelines and next-generation sequencing platforms, including Illumina technologies.
• Demonstrated experience operating informatics systems in regulated environments with strong understanding of GxP, CLIA, CAP, and FDA quality systems.
• Proven leadership experience managing and developing technical teams with accountability for large-scale, cross-functional project delivery.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DRAGEN workflows and advanced sequencing analytics.
• Advanced experience with AWS platforms including SageMaker, S3, Athena; familiarity with AWS HealthOmics preferred.
• Experience integrating data from LIMS, instruments, MES/LES, and environmental monitoring systems.
• Working knowledge of ISO 13485, 21 CFR 820, MDSAP, and IVDR requirements as they relate to data and documentation.
• Experience with enterprise dashboarding, data modeling, governance, performance optimization, and advanced analytics.