Job Description

At Lifebit, we carve our own paths. Trusted by Governments and world-leading pharma institutions and funded with a fresh $60m in Series B capital, we are on a mission to harness the power of connected data and bring precision medicine to life globally. The key to saving human lives is providing researchers across the globe with the right data to develop more precise drugs faster.

Generating large amounts of biomedical data has become relatively straightforward. The challenge now is finding, accessing and analysing this sensitive data stored across thousands of disconnected locations. It is frustrating and painfully difficult for researchers.

Lifebit has created a patented, federated technology that brings analysis and computation to where data resides. This enables researchers to run analyses on multiple, distributed datasets in-situ, avoiding the risky movement of highly-sensitive data.

Lifebit powers pioneers in national precision medicine such as Genomics England (UK Government) and the Danish National Genome Center and guides them on how to make their valuable data usable securely. Biotech and pharma leaders like Boehringer Ingelheim turn to Lifebit to connect them to this otherwise locked-up data to obtain novel therapeutic insights.

Our technology is unmatched and momentum is on our side - but we need an exceptionally strong team to help boost Lifebit to incredible new heights.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Lifebit\xe2\x80\x99s growing service delivery team. We are looking for a Solutions Architect (Junior Role) with experience in one or more of the following specialities: Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, Cloud Infrastructure and/or Genomic Medicine. The candidate should enjoy working hands-on with our commercial team, scientists, software engineers, and clients to solve challenges in the world of Genomics and Precision Medicine.

You will provide exceptional technical knowledge and thought leadership in your specialty, while working with a world-class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the solutions architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of genomics and bioinformatics.

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement within client meetings; creating delivery plans, responding to RFPs, support sales and client success with demos, on-boarding clients and developing existing solutions to streamline internal/external processes, and developing a deep expertise in industry best practices and workflows in bioinformatics technologies and how they are applied on cloud or on-premise HPC infrastructures.

Requirements

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Providing professional technical (Bioinformatics/infrastructure/genomics) customer support assistance
• Collaborate with colleagues in Product, Commercial and Executive teams to shape strategy and sales pitches to win pharmaceutical clients, including written communications and proposals.
• Coordinate with Sales and Product teams to contribute to compelling tenders and proposals to win business.
• Provide best practices support on building customer solutions
• Gather insights and experiences from every project and client to feed them to the rest of the team.
• Help and train team members and collaborators working with Lifebit products and services.
• Keep up to date with best practices and latest developments in bioinformatics, cloud, and multi-omics.

• Identify, research, and qualify new business opportunities in collaboration with the broader Commercial, Product and Executive teams.
• Presenting, promoting and selling Lifebit\xe2\x80\x99s solutions to prospective customers.
• Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project managers, directors, and C-level clients to architect, define and implement unique and complex solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Be able to map out products and services as well as their inter-dependencies to realize clients\xe2\x80\x99 visions and business needs.
• Translate the vision of the client\xe2\x80\x99s projects to the development team and play a pivotal part throughout the entire solution development lifecycle.
• Ensure that the new solutions fit into the existing solution offering from the technical, business, user, and other perspectives.
• Participate in the identification, design, evaluation and development of concepts for customer solutions by providing technical expertise and oversight of the development of prototypes and proofs of concepts.

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for people with:

• Intermediate knowledge of bioinformatics and/or cloud computing infrastructure and/or genomics
• BSc in a relevant scientific subject (e.g. computer science/bioinformatics / computational biology), ideally educated to a graduate level with PhD/MSc
• Excellent communication & relationship-building skills
• Demonstrable prioritisation, time management & organisational skills
• Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to the audience\'s needs
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
• An entrepreneurial drive and self-starter mentality.
• Willingness and confidence to reach out & network
• Experience in the healthcare industry, preferably from a payer or provider perspective
• Have a good understanding of design principles, SDLC (software development life cycle) and development best practices.
• Proven scientific writing experience and research experience working with large-scale biomedical data

Below are the skills that are highly desirable, but are not required.

• Prior experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Certifications for AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure
• Programming experience in R/Python
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high-quality, enterprise-scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle
• Hands-on expertise in bioinformatics or cloud infrastructure setup.
• Experience building pipelines in Nextflow for multi-omics data.
• Familiarity with software development and project management processes/tools such as agile processes and Jira.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Personal development budget
• State-of-the-art hardware and software
• 25 days of annual leave plus the usual public holidays;
• Conferences, events and training resources (Data Science, AI, cloud, any tech stack, painting, origami, you pick!) - we offer \xc2\xa31,000 a year to each person for personal development);
• International and diverse team.

• Flexible working during summer.

Location: Remote - Singapore

Lifebit Biotech Ltd