U200BIT Solutions Delivery Lead, R&D Operations

Job Description

Location:

San Rafael, Ca

Bio Marin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life‑threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating, and have few, if any, treatment options. Bio Marin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.

By providing a foundation for all operations company‑wide, Bio Marin’s General and Administrative teams support our mission of providing first and best‑in‑class therapeutics to patients who live with rare diseases. Our teams include groups such as finance, legal, human resources, corporate compliance and ethics, and information technology. Come join our team and make a meaningful impact on patients’ lives.

The IT Solutions Delivery Lead, R&D Operations role is critical to ensuring successful development and delivery of Information Technology strategies which emphasize the IT organization’s leadership role in “managing information technology” and include system ownership for the R&D organization’s systems, enabling the business to focus on what they are best at.

The R&D organization is responsible for everything from research and discovery to post‑market clinical development. Our customers include Research, Clinical Sciences, Bio Metrics, Clinical Development/Operations, Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, etc.

The position will maintain full‑time engagement to the R&D department and continually capture and examine the unique needs and concerns of the business to manage the standard support practices and procedures for identifying, scoping, developing, testing, and releasing/publishing R&D business systems. It will provide system support, maintenance, licensing, data management and project delivery for the life of their systems.

It will be an integral part of the global R&D IT Solution Delivery and Support team, with responsibility for developing, maintaining, monitoring, and supporting an industry‑specific set of R&D Operations systems. It will work closely with the business SME’s and IT project managers to capture and prioritize all requests for the R&D department and address and/or elevate any data, process, and technical issues that inhibit the vision and enhanced efficiencies of the business needs and change.

• Technical ownership of SAS 9.4, SAS Viya, R‑Studio, Phoenix Win Non Lin , Pumas
  
  AI, etc.
• Lifecycle management of applications to deliver business capabilities while ensuring efficient allocation of resources across our technology landscape.
• Financial responsibility of all system operational expenses.
• Manage software vendors to ensure SLAs are met and system is up to date.
• Manage licensing for your systems including budgeting and growth forecasting.
• Facilitate application steering committees to maximize value delivered by applications and always improve UX.
• Participate in change control boards and design review committees.
• Bridge the gap between business needs and technology constraints to develop the right strategy/solution for the company.

• Support new application and system deployment projects with an emphasis on the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Participate as subject matter expert (and in some cases lead) projects with project managers, technicians, and business analysts.
• Develop and implement technical strategies for various validated/qualified computer systems with an emphasis on global enterprise systems.
• Partner with the business team to implement next‑gen applications and upgrade existing applications.
• Develop solution options based on user requirements including level of effort and cost estimates.
• Champion internal IT standards and best practices during the design/implementation phase of a project.
• Provide analytical support for multiple complex projects; establish work plans and timelines; coordinate with internal and external…