The Policy, Controls & Information Lifecycle SME is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office, combining policy, risk, controls and information lifecycle expertise with hands-on technology implementation.
Lead the scientific data programme behind FENIX, managing bioinformatics and curation teams, developing data strategy, ensuring quality, and coordinating with EMBL-EBI partners.
Compensation
Grade 7, monthly salary from £4,395 after tax, plus generous benefits and financial allowances based on individual circumstances. Excluding 12.99% personal pension and insurance contributions.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop the bioinformatics and curation team, with formal line management responsibilities including objectives, appraisals, performance management, career development and recruitment.
Develop the scientific data strategy and roadmap with the Team Leader and Technical Lead, translating scientific needs and emerging technologies into priorities and achievable delivery plans.
Own standards for submitted data, metadata and curation, including experimental descriptions and sample relationships.
Define additional quality controls and suitability criteria for downstream analysis, visualisation and reuse.
Lead the development, validation and improvement of reproducible Nextflow workflows.
Requirements
A degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular biology, genomics or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Nice to have: line management
Nice to have: JSON Schema for metadata
Nice to have: relational or document databases
Nice to have: public biological data resource experience
Provide a broad range of data engineering functions including data modeling, data quality, data profiling, data acquisition and ingestion, extract transform load (ETL), metadata enrichment and management, data provenance and lineage, and other specialized data management functions.
Compensation
$81,600 - $115,200 CAD
Responsibilities
Perform data analysis and assess data management requirements for a specific Platform or Journey, including complex analysis involving multiple pods or products
Maintain expert knowledge of upstream data, including knowledge provided through data profiling, data quality reporting, and via the production of metadata
Support the acquisition and ingestion of data
Articulate complex, large scale, and high impact technical design and development details to non-technical business partners
Elicit, analyze, and understand business and data requirements to develop complete business solutions, including data models (entity relationship diagrams, dimensional models), ETL and business rules, data life-cycle management, governance, lineage, and metadata
The base salary range for this job is: New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $180,000 to $324,000
Bay Area California offices – $187,500 to $337,500
All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $150,000 to $297,000
Responsibilities
Establish and maintain a reusable control catalogue and an approach for translating policy into controls
Translate approved obligations and business needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements
Map requirements to data domains, products, assets, classifications, critical data elements, lifecycle stages, jurisdictions and accountable roles
Define, configure and validate reusable control patterns and workflows for data creation, classification, discovery, access, use, sharing, retention, legal hold, archival and defensible disposal
Embed governance requirements into data products, cloud platforms, collaboration environments, business processes and uses involving AI
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent tertiary qualification in information systems, computer science, software or data engineering, or a related technical discipline
Nice to have: Microsoft Purview
Nice to have: Microsoft Information Protection
Nice to have: Microsoft 365 retention capabilities
