Bioinformatics Team Lead

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This role is a fully telecommuting role. Candidate MUST:

be a US Citizen or US Person who resides in the United States for the current three consecutive years and have the ability to obtain a Public Trust level 5 clearance.

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This position is open to telecommuting. 

Leidos Health Solutions is seeking a Bioinformatics Team Lead to a lead team of bioinformatics developers, scientists, and trainers in executing high-impact molecular epidemiology and molecular surveillance projects and educating public health scientists in the use of bioinformatics approaches and tools to advance their public health science.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for:

• Support the Project Manager and collaborate with the Infrastructure Team Lead to deliver high-quality program capabilities on time and within budget
• Draw upon your experience to advise and influence the selection and development of fit-for-purpose bioinformatics approaches and tools and adapt them as needed to high-performance and cloud computing environments.
• Be the expert in workflow management tools such as Nextflow and other open-source tools.
• Develop bioinformatics training content, lead peer reviews of training conduct and deliver advanced and specialized trainings to CDC scientists.
• Lead the resolution of bioinformatics helpdesk tickets and coordinate the expansion of our knowledge base and documentation on the user-facing website. 
• Liaise with high-performance computing infrastructure and team members to coordinate joint efforts, resolve issues that cross-over into other teams, and voice the bioinformatics viewpoint or perspective in your interactions with them.
• Facilitate and maintain project plans and artifacts for major activities, team progress reports, set team goals and priorities, communicate needs and progress to Leidos and CDC stakeholders.
• Deliver quarterly reports, biweekly progress reports with metrics and author scientific publications in collaboration with CDC researchers.
• Mentor team members and interns, identify and provide opportunities for professional development. Monitor team performance and coach team members.
• Develop CDC and external collaborations and interface with customer user groups and the Nextflow community to build professional relationships, generate new projects and provide solutions to users.
• Lead or support project initiation activities, including schedule, scope, and resources planning.
• Drive the development and implementation of innovation roadmap and streamline operation in alignment with customer mission. 
• Drive continuous service improvement and innovation.
• Plan/lead project reviews and briefings, both internal and with the customer.
• Oversee performance to specified contract SLAs and direct changes to meet the SLAs as needed
• Collaborate with related other contractors to delivery effectively for the customer.
• Remain conversant with the industry’s advance bioinformatics research and high performance computing technology and practices.
• Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with customers, internal leaders and other stakeholders