Principal, Data & Analytics - Life Sciences

Who You'll Work With

As a modernized technology company, we've never met a technical challenge we didn't like. We enable our clients to learn from their data, create incredible digital experiences, and make the most of new technologies. We blend design, engineering, and analytics expertise to build the future. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds and emerging technologies. Our Boston Data & Analytics team is looking for a Life Sciences Principal who can actively contribute to our growing Life Sciences industry practice.

What You'll Do

• Actively contribute to the delivery communities at Slalom and support further buildout of the Life Sciences capability, to bring delivery-focused expertise to life sciences data and analytics projects.
• Define and lead the development of industry leading practices, frameworks, and accelerators for the delivery of foundational data initiatives, aligning with Global Slalom project delivery methodologies.
• Proactively manage client communications and expectations to ensure client satisfaction in partnership with Slalom team.
• Make decisions regarding strategy and direction of project delivery through consideration of competing priorities, cost of delay, dependencies, and level of effort.
• Create repositories of key data trends and point of views for re-use on subsequent projects
• Work with our delivery focused practices to nurture a delivery focused in the data and analytics team, collaborating across the office to meet client needs.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience as a life sciences researcher/computational biologist or a bioinformatics analyst for a Pharmaceutical/Biotech/Research organizations
• Experience with clinical, pre-clinical and omics data management processes
• Familiarity with execution, operations and data of clinical trials
• Familiarity with drug development process
• Strong curiosity about disease pathology and tenacious drive to solve complex research challenges
• Strong interest and knowledge in the Life Sciences sector
• Ability to operate under pressure and tight deadlines while effectively prioritizing and managing time
• Able to read research publications and translate results and methods to non-scientific community
• Able to translate complex scientific processes for non-scientific and technical community.
• Ability to break down a business problem into smaller problems and create user stories from them
• Familiarity with many standard bioinformatics tools (e.g. PLINK2, VCFtools, Picard) and data formats (e.g VCF, BAM, etc.)

About Us

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 40 markets around the world, Slalom'steams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed byregional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 13,000 employees. Slalom has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running and is regularly recognized byemployees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.