Director/Senior Director of Research Software Engineering

Informatics stewards the scientific data produced by A&N research programs across their full lifecycle - from collection and processing to sharing and analysis. The Director of Research Software Engineering will play a central role in that mission, leading the engineering team responsible for the software systems that make that complex scientific data accessible and useful to the broader research community.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for researcher-facing software systems.
• Systems Ownership: Oversee the full-stack development of SFARI Base and new systems.
• Technical Excellence: Drive Informatics-wide engineering standards.
• Team Management: Manage, build, mentor, and scale a team of software engineers.
• Cross-functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with other Informatics teams and A&N program staff.
• Project Oversight: Ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of software projects.
• Researcher Experience: Champion the needs of external researchers.
• Open Science: Ensure that engineering decisions advance the foundation's commitment to open science.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related field.

Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years in a leadership or management role. Experience building software for genomics or other data-intensive life sciences research contexts. Strong proficiency in Python and Django.