Information Architect

18/05/22

Location

Martelaarslaan 408, Ghent, Belgium

Vacancy

Information Architect

Who are we 

BioLizard is a growing scale-up company providing bioinformatics solutions for our customers in biotech, pharma and academia. Typically, a lizard adjusts to its surroundings and that is exactly what we do. At BioLizard we adapt to our customers’ data environment! The research field is rapidly becoming more data-driven, where we strive toward offering state-of-the-art bioinformatics, statistics and machine learning solutions to help solve our customers’ biological questions. Our bioinformaticians are embedded in the working environment of our customers in a full-time or half-time regime, collaborating on challenging projects in life science. 

As Information Architect, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting multidisciplinary projects within biotech and biopharma. Your primary focus will be to support different IT teams to shape, communicate and implement the data management roadmap. You can quickly snapshot the existing state-based on scoping interviews with various stakeholders, after which you help harmonise and optimise the different processes and data flows across departments by means of weighing in on architectural decisions and performing architectural design. You work together with the team to ensure that the solutions adhere to the principles, policies and standards used throughout the company.

Keywords 

Analytical mindset – Data Modelling - Enterprise Architecture – BI reporting Tools

Job requirements 

  • You have at least a university degree in computer science, software engineering or similar field.

  • You have 5+ years of experience in the field of data architecture, data modelling and analytics, with a focus on designing and implementing solutions.

  • Experience in design, development and maintenance of data lakes, data warehouses, data marts and schema design

  • Experience with cloud computing services such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform & AWS

  • Eager to tackle a diverse range of problems using multidisciplinary approaches and work to a high standard

  • You have strong project management and reporting skills preferably in an Agile environment

  • You can carry on conversations with business customers, upper management, and technical personnel

  • Fluent in English, with excellent  communication skills 

  • Willing to travel when the need arises (depending on the project) 

  • Knowledge or background in life sciences is considered an advantage 

  • Familiar with working in a regulated environment (e.g. GxP, HIPAA, GDPR, … ) is considered a plus

Job offer 

  • A challenging and motivating work environment where like-minded people strive

towards top-grade results in a continuously evolving research domain 

  • A personal growth trajectory focusing on self-development and knowledge expansion

  • Project guidance together with senior profiles and our academic network of experts 

  • An attractive salary package with additional benefits 

Interested? Get in touch! 

Please send your CV with a one-page motivation to contact@lizard.bio.

Find out more information at www.lizard.bio.

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