Company:          Zifo Technologies Inc.

Location:            4000 Centregreen Way Suite 300 Cary, NC 27513

Position Title:   Scientific Informatics Consultants

Job Description:

Provide consultative input to Zifo’s clients involved in Research and Development to help develop their strategic roadmap to achieve long-term business goals. Perform scientific consulting. Responsible for implementation, system consultation and support. Meet with stakeholders to understand capability needs, bottlenecks and business priorities. Use information and insights obtained from research and client discussions to provide input into business development strategy. Harness knowledge of industry trends, opportunities, and client needs to prioritize capability needs. Develop high level plan to implement the roadmap strategy. Assist clients with presenting strategy and its value proposition to Senior Management. Engage with Industry Experts and leaders to understand industry focus and direction for the future. Understand Industry Regulations and Compliance Requirements from regulatory agencies such as FDA. Review and understand vendors and their solution offerings. Develop comparative methodologies (e.g., Quadrant Maps) highlighting different vendor positioning in the market. Develop use cases and strategies for adoption of disruptive technologies (e.g., Machine Learning, IoT) by vendors. Provide design inputs to development team (ELN, LIMS, CDS, LSH, EDC, etc.). Review the developed workflows and test to confirm if it meets business users’ needs. Reconfigure and update the workflows to comply with business user requirements. Conduct user demos and support User Testing. Provide inputs on workflows required and future state of the application. Support user reported issues and work with vendors and applicable stakeholders to resolve issues. Create project charter. Define SDLC methodology. Develop Change Management and Risk Management strategies. Manage stakeholders and resolve conflicts. Conduct status meetings and deliverables quality management. Coordinate with global delivery team from Zifo for implementation. Telecommuting is allowed one day per week. Occasional domestic travel is required. Travel and work at client sites as assigned. Multiple Positions Available.

The employee helps client organizations design, configure, and implement informatics software systems used to capture, manage, and analyze scientific research and laboratory data, so that clients can use that data to make scientific and operational decisions. The clients are pharmaceutical / biotechnology companies, predominantly focused on research and development (including various therapeutics areas, cell and gene therapy, protein engineering, drug metabolism, process chemistry, etc.) Specific systems the employee works with include Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and Chromatography Data Systems (CDS). The employee gathers requirements from client scientific and laboratory stakeholders, translates those requirements into system configurations and workflows within these platforms, and validates that the configured workflows meet the client's documented research and data-management needs. Deliverables provided to clients include configured and tested informatics systems, defined data-capture and laboratory workflows, requirements and design documentation, and recommendations for adopting informatics technologies.

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Life Sciences, Biopharma, Pharmaceutical Engineering Biotechnology, Information Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.

Alternatively, the employer would accept a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Life Sciences, Biopharma, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field plus three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related role in lieu of the Bachelor’s degree plus five (5) years of described experience.

Requires three (3) years of experience in the following:

·       Domain knowledge.

·       COTS product configuration, implementation, and managed services support.

Requires two (2) years of experience in the following:

·       Project management and solution implementation.

·       At least one of the following: drug discovery functions; drug development functions; Biologics, Cell and Gene Therapy Process; lab operations management; or GMP.

·       At least one of the following databases: Oracle or SQL Server.

·       At least one of the following operating systems: Unix or Windows.

·       Software development processes: Waterfall and Agile.

·       At least one of the following: data warehousing tools; LIMS systems; ELN platforms; research informatics platforms; or reporting platforms.

Occasional domestic travel is required. Travel and work at client sites as assigned. Telecommuting is allowed one day per week.

Qualified applicants please: Email resume, referencing [ZT038], including job history, to: Zifo-US-HR@zifornd.com.