Manager - Bioinformatics

## Manager - Bioinformatics Apply locations:
Tempe, AZ - 85281time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR105259
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**** Position Summary
** The Manager, Bioinformatics leads a team of bioinformatics scientists responsible for the development, validation, implementation, and support of next-generation sequencing (NGS) bioinformatics pipelines and analytical workflows within a clinical or translational genomics environment. This role combines technical expertise, project leadership, and people management to ensure delivery of reliable, scalable, and compliant bioinformatics solutions supporting research, assay development, validation activities, and clinical operations.

The Manager partners closely with laboratory, clinical, software engineering, IT, quality, and scientific stakeholders to advance genomic testing capabilities and operational excellence.

** Job Responsibilities
*** Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of bioinformatics scientists, including hiring support, onboarding, performance management, career development, and workload prioritization.
* Manage day-to-day bioinformatics operations and ensure timely delivery of high-quality analytical solutions across development, validation, and production activities.
* Establish project plans, priorities, timelines, and resource allocations for team initiatives and cross-functional programs.
* Oversee development, optimization, validation, and maintenance of NGS bioinformatics pipelines and workflows.
* Support end-to-end genomic data analysis, including quality control, alignment, variant calling, annotation, filtering, interpretation support, and reporting workflows.
* Lead analytical development and validation activities for NGS assays, including performance assessment, reproducibility studies, concordance analysis, quality metrics, and documentation.
* Drive implementation of scalable, automated, and reproducible computational workflows using software development and bioinformatics best practices.
* Collaborate with software engineering and IT teams to support cloud-based infrastructure, workflow execution, data storage, monitoring, and system performance.
* Ensure bioinformatics processes comply with applicable quality, regulatory, documentation, privacy, and security requirements.
* Partner with laboratory scientists, molecular pathologists, clinical teams, statisticians, and researchers to translate scientific and clinical requirements into analytical solutions.
* Monitor project progress, identify risks and dependencies, communicate status updates, and facilitate resolution of technical and operational challenges.
* Investigate and resolve complex pipeline, assay, and data quality issues while supporting production operations as needed.
* Serve as a technical subject matter expert for bioinformatics workflows, genomic analyses, and assay validation efforts.
* Stay current on emerging technologies, tools, methodologies, and industry best practices in genomics and bioinformatics.
** Required Qualifications
*** PhD degree with experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Genomics, Molecular Biology, or a related field.
* Minimum of 5 to 8 years of hands-on bioinformatics experience supporting NGS pipeline development,…