Associate Director Software Engineering #2111

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

The Associate Director provides statistical expertise and leadership to pre-analytical and analytical assay studies. The Associate Director partners with key internal stakeholders to design, analyze, and interpret pre-analytical and analytical studies in support of GRAIL’s product development.
Responsibilities

• Create a vision for software testing to deliver a quality product in regulated life sciences/pharma industry.
• Able to build a team - hire talent, manage resources, plan, architect, design, and perform hands-on technical work as needed.
• New test frameworks/libraries for Front End and APIs Contribute to enhance and maintain software development standards
• Work closely with the DevOps team to create/configure containerized test environments to achieve seamless test integration in local and AWS environments using tools like Jenkins and Docker.
• Support application deployment to production and perform UAT/Smoke/Sanity testing.
• Create/maintain testing documentation following team-wide document standards with developers to troubleshoot/investigate issues. 
• Work closely with Quality/compliance/regulatory bodies to maintain and enhance best practices

You will bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or similar technical field
• 12+ years of experience in role in software 
• 6+ years of Managerial/leadership experience in a software engineering environment.

Relocation available
Hybrid work model


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