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EXACT SCIENCES CORPORATION Associate Director Bioinformatics in MADISON, Wisconsin
JOB REQUIREMENTS: Help us change lives At Exact Sciences, we\'re helpingchange how the world prevents, detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you\'re working to help others. Position Overview The Associate Director, Bioinformatics Operations is largely a self-directed leader responsible for the reliability, scalability, and compliane of bioinformatics pipelines and data workflows that support a high throughput clinical NGS and other advanced genomic technologies laboratory. This role oversees end-to-end bioinformatics operations from raw data acquisition through report ready outputs, ensuring that production systems meet CLIA/CAP, ISO, and internal quality requirements. The Associate Director partners closely with the Laboratory Director, clinical lab operations, QA/RA, and IT/DevOps to maintain robust day-to-day operations while driving continuous improvement and supporting assay validations and change management. As a technical and operational subject matter expert, the Associate Director provides guidance and mentorship to a team of bioinformaticians and scientists, develops and enforces SOPs and standards, and leads incident response, capacity planning, and operational readiness for audits and inspections. Essential Duties Include, but are not limited to, the following: Operational ownership of clinical pipelines Provide operational ownership of production bioinformatics pipelines for clinical NGS assays, from BCL/FASTQ through aligned data, variant calls, QC metrics, and report ready outputs. Ensure that routine analyses, QC checks, and automated workflows run reliably within defined SLAs for turnaround time and quality. Oversee monitoring of sequencing runs and pipeline performance, including review of run-level and sample-level metrics, and lead response to data quality concerns, contamination, discordance, and unexpected error patterns. Partner with IT/DevOps/HPC teams to manage compute, storage, and data transfer needs for production, including environment configuration, access control, and backup/restore processes. Own bioinformatics components of CLIA/CAP compliance for assigned assays, including documentation, validation reports, and ongoing quality monitoring for pipelines and associated tools. Lead or... For full info follow application link. We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other status protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Applicable portions of the Company\'s affirmative action program are available to any applicant or employee for inspection upon request. ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/FE901513D8B046C8