Sr. LIMS Team Lead
Sr. LIMS Team Lead
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Job Overview:
Lead or mentor technical team. Investigate, develop, test and recommend new software solutions for existing or proposed processes. Evaluate and implement new applications and support on-going effective utilization of applications. Support LIMS (Lab Information Management System) and other laboratory quality systems. This is a global position, and it will require working with end users or colleagues in different timezones and occasionally outside normal working hours.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build and mentor team members.
- Organize, analyze, prioritize departmental work demands for assignment to others. Be responsible for quality, value, and timeliness of deliveries of team members.
- Articulate ideas and solution to peers and stakeholders for acceptance.
- Maintain industry knowledge of technical advances in LIMS and other laboratory solutions.
- Meet with users to plan the implementation of LIMS, enhancements and assess impact to operations and necessary work flow changes.
- Identify opportunities for improving LIMS functionality and performance.
- Focuses on meeting customer expectations and working with a customer service mindset.
- Meet with lab management teams to plan the implementation of LIMS, enhancements and assess impact to operations and necessary work flow changes.
- Design and architect technical solutions that meets functional requirements.
- Develop coding standards and perform code reviews.
- Develop and enhance LIMS systems which include requirement analysis, designing, programming, configuration, upgrades/patches, system documentation, custom reports, bug fixes, and training.
- Configure and support LIMS analysis, test lists and other LIMS static data as needed.
- Develop Crystal and Excel reports, data reports to customers, Key Performance Indicator reports and any other reports needed to support the laboratory functions.
- Support the business in the retrieval of data from LIMS. Provide data for analysis utilizing queries and reporting tools.
- Provide support of LIMS systems which include troubleshooting, configuration, administration, upgrades/patches, system documentation, bug fixes, and training.
- Be part of the weekly on call rotation.
- Perform other duties as needed.
Experience:
- Demonstrated ability to lead or mentor a technical team.
- Demonstrated ability to design technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to build programming standards.
- The incumbent should have a basic knowledge of system development life cycle (SDLC).
- The incumbent should possess a minimum of 5 years of IT systems configuration and support experience gained through college coursework or work experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of relational database backend programming such as stored procedures, functions, packages, database triggers and PL/SQL
- Minimum of 2 years of programming experience using programming language such VB, Windows scripting language, Java
- Experience in building SQL queries, optimization and fine tuning is preferred.
- Experience applying knowledge of laboratory workflow and Quality Control principles preferred.
- The incumbent must be well organized with effective oral and written communication skills.
- Possess a positive attitude and be able to multitask on several projects simultaneously.
- Familiarity with industry standard scientific instruments will be a plus
- The ability to interact with all levels of the organization is necessary to be able to complete all tasks effectively.
- Experience in a global company
Education:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or programming
Competencies:
- LIMS application (Labware V5/7 will be a plus)
- Reporting tools for example Crystal reports v9/v11
- Programmation language experience in Visual Basic, Java
- Database programming experience in
- Database concept (Schema, table, view materialized view, trigger, stored procedure…)
- Oracle
- SQL
- PL-SQL
- Interface with instruments in a Laboratory
- Leadership
- Office tools:
- Microsoft tools Word, Excel
- Google tools
- Ticketing tools
- Knowledge on Chemistry or Microbiology will be a plus
Direct Reports: 0-5
