Chief Technology Officer, DBMI - 128017

Special Selection Applicants: Apply by 02/23/2024. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.

Biomedical Informatics is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of biology, medicine, and quantitative sciences. Biomedical Informatics researchers develop new methods to integrate and analyze vast amounts of data generated in the laboratory, clinical and translational research, clinical encounters, and population studies.

The goals of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) are to (1) promote excellence in biomedical informatics research, (2) collaborate with biomedical researchers in developing new quantitative methods that enable the formulation and testing of original hypotheses, (3) train the next generation of biomedical informatics specialists, and (4) interface with engineering, mathematics, information and computer science communities, serving as a hub for quantitative scientists focused on biomedical research.

This department leads multiple federally and non-profit funded biomedical research projects, which are focused on the integration, mapping, data quality, analysis, and sharing of biomedical and health care data for the scientific community, as well as patient-centered research to enable data powered health. In addition, the department runs a complex computational infrastructure that allows access and analysis of these data in a privacy-preserving manner.

DBMI's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) serves as a technical expert and functional leader of DBMI's Biomedical Informatics Technical infrastructure, architecture, personnel, and strategy.

This leadership position has oversight of DBMI's technical and informatics staff. They are responsible for strategic visioning of infrastructure and collaborative opportunities (within UCSD health/health sciences/ and campus as well as outside of UCSD). They will seek to enhance to build a sustainable infrastructure and deepen our technical staff aptitude to advance biomedical informatics.

From a technical perspective, they should be familiar with data base infrastructure, security, privacy, compliance, database structure, environments (server, cloud, etc.), architecture, quality control, production vs. testing, analytics, and audit. The complimentary skills should include basic understanding of technical requirements to support biomedical informatics systems, applications, and cybersecurity infrastructure. Additionally, they should also understand the infrastructure required to support the software development lifecycle.

This individual will be responsible for the oversight of DBMI's approach to design, building, and maintenance of the infrastructure for biomedical informatics with a particular emphasis on delivering professional tools and implementing technical/development standards for widespread use among DBMI's technical staff and projects. Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals. Reviews and approves recommendations for bioinformatics programs and initiatives. Provides guidance to subordinates to achieve goals in accordance with established policies.

The CTO will have oversight of policy and procedure that abide with UCSD and UC procedures for change management, security, data privacy. They will be responsible for establishing and evaluating use of knowledge documentation best practices, and knowledge transfer. This position will provide standard operating procedures (SOPs) for DBMI technical staff, which will be expected to follow this guidance.

The CTO will also be responsible as the senior technical supervisor to DBMI's technical teams. They will manage and direct technical staff on developing a wide variety of new and existing software projects; oversee and participate in all stages of the software development process for back-end services and customer facing applications. Provide leadership in the analysis, design, creation, management, back up, and maintenance of multiple, complex, physical and logical databases; leads and coordinates the exploration and integration of associated new technologies. Oversee the operation, development, and maintenance of the IT infrastructure; provide leadership, management, and supervision in the implementation of systems strategy.

Assesses needs/impact of educational and research technology infrastructure. Conducts financial, technical, and resource analyses and makes recommendations regarding digital technology. Liaison between DBMI Chief/Chair, researchers/faculty, technology/programming staff. Develops policies and procedures regarding technology services.

Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals. Reviews and approves recommendations for bioinformatics programs and initiatives. Provides guidance to subordinates to achieve goals in accordance with established policies. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve goals results in additional costs and personnel, and serious delays in overall schedules.

• Eleven years of related experience, education and training, OR an Bachelor’s degree in related area plus seven years of related experience/training.

• Demonstrated skill managing a technical staff of IT and/or scientific personnel, including projects performed by multiple developers.

• Broad knowledge of bioinformatics programming design, modification and implementation, bioinformatics methods, data security, operating systems, relational databases, and data structures in an open source environment.

• Proven critical thinking, persuasion, negotiation, conflict resolution, mentoring and staff development, leadership/ management, problem solving, human resources policies and procedures relating to management responsibilities.

• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, quantitative and analytical abilities, and object-oriented computing concepts. Demonstrated skill at clearly and concisely communicating detailed information over the phone, in writing and in person.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate well with a wide range of both technical and non-technical individuals and groups. Demonstrated ability to relate to all levels of the user community and act as a team player that motivates and educates other team members. Demonstrated experience translating technical language to lay audiences.

• Familiarity with computer terminology and the ability to read and understand complex technical publications, journals and computer documentation.

• Broad knowledge of modern biology or applicable field of research.

• Experience developing, deploying and managing web portals

• Demonstrated project management, business process optimization and operations management experience in a biomedical or research organization.

• Demonstrated ability to present data at national and international scientific or industry meetings. Demonstrated ability to define the qualities, characteristics and goals of a national research institute. Ability to think strategically and creatively, to anticipate federal, industry, and research trends, and to translate that thinking into cogent plans for a large and diverse research institute.

• Advanced analytical skills in the areas of resource management, technical leadership, interpretation of research results, careful reading of legal policies and procedures, and preparation and management of budgets.

• Strong demonstrated organization and management and supervisory skills. Strong set of management skills for a technical enterprise - including organizational, problem solving, negotiation, decision-making, research and analysis, and interpersonal and motivational skills.

• General Computer Software Knowledge and Expertise: Advanced demonstrated experience and knowledge of key programming languages, including C, C++, Java, VB, Python, Scala, and shell programming. Additional expertise in other programming languages and meta-languages is desirable.

• Advanced experience and knowledge of software maintenance techniques. Advanced knowledge of and experience with software design concepts and general debugging methods. Advanced knowledge of computer communications mechanisms. Demonstrated expertise and knowledge of numerical analysis methods and current techniques in computer science. Strong background in specific computer operating systems such as UNIX, Linux, Windows.

• Demonstrated expertise and knowledge of numerical analysis methods and current techniques in computer science.

• Advanced technical degree such as an MS, MEng, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field and evidence of substantial technology and business knowledge and experience.

• Experience with big data and machine learning infrastructure, including cloud-based systems for allowable uses, such as Google’s Cloud, Genome Cloud, Amazon’s infrastructure - including Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and/or Microsoft Azure.

• Experience with mobile app development and infrastructure, IoT (internet of things), NLP, etc.

• Knowledge OMOP, HL7 and FHIR a plus.

• BI experience in a Health Sciences setting.

• Experience working with, budgeting and executing CDPH contracts.

• Understanding of Protected Health Information (PHI) and HIPAA regulations and requirements.

• Current UC San Diego employee.

• Employment is subject to a criminal background check and pre-employment physical.

• Primary worksite location is in Sacramento, CA.

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Annual Full Pay Range: $140,400 - $279,200 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%)

Hourly Equivalent: $67.24 - $133.72

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