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Lund University was founded in 1666 and is consistently ranked among the world's leading universities. We have approximately 46,000 students and 8,500 employees in Lund, Helsingborg, and Malmö. We are united in our strive to understand, explain, and improve our world and the conditions of people.

Workplace Description
SciLifeLab (www.scilifelab.se), founded in 2010, is a hub for life science research in Sweden and a collaboration between Swedish universities.

The appointed person will work at SciLifeLab Data Centre (DC), which is responsible for IT issues and research data management for SciLifeLab's technology platforms and other SciLifeLab-organized programs and activities, including the national research program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS). We have a national mandate and operate services for life science data and e-infrastructure, as well as issues related to FAIR, open science, and data-driven research, in strong collaboration with national and international actors. Here, you will have the opportunity to actively influence how IT is integrated into future health and environmental research, and work for openness, reproducibility, and maximum scientific impact for the large amounts of research data generated in the field. You will work with researchers, data engineers, data stewards, and software developers in a rapidly growing, dynamic, and progressive team with a leading role in the country. The position is located at Lund University, within SciLifeLab Lund's organizational unit, with line reporting directly to its director. The work is led by the Director of SciLifeLab Data Centre.

Tasks and Responsibilities
SciLifeLab Data Centre (DC) is seeking a Manager for our Business Area for Scientific Data Services. The area currently employs approximately 20 software developers and data engineers located at several of our partner universities, focusing on the development, operation, and support of data services with scientific and bioinformatic content, e.g., for AI models and computational applications, FAIR sharing of research data for infectious diseases, biodiversity, image data, cell and molecular biology, etc. The services are developed based on needs from SciLifeLab's users and as part of SciLifeLab Data Centre's mandate as digital infrastructure. The work targets users within national infrastructure as well as the Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) program and Swedish life science researchers in general. A focus for the coming years is to build common integrative services for multimodal data generated at SciLifeLab's infrastructure platforms.

As the Manager of the area, you will be responsible for personnel and economic matters for the business area, be part of our management group, and coordinate the work within the area with other business areas at DC. This includes, for example, areas for research data management, IT, and service management. You will also have a key role in DC's strategic work within SciLifeLab for digital infrastructure, and in our collaboration with university administration, other national infrastructures (e.g., NAISS, SUNET, and SND), as well as international partners (e.g., EMBL, CSC, CERN, and VIB). DC has a strongly research-driven operation, and you will specifically develop this part of our business.

You are expected to have long and international experience as a manager and researcher at infrastructures for bioinformatics and life science, and to be able to take an active and driving role in developing and leading operations and organization within DC. You need to have strong personal experience as a researcher. A high ability to collaborate and communicate is required both as part of the management, towards collaboration partners, and towards user groups.

The location is at Lund University, and you will specifically develop DC's national collaboration in Lund and southern Sweden, but your role is a clear national mandate as a manager and requires good presence and the ability to lead a nationally distributed operation.

Qualifications

Requirements for the position:

• You must have a PhD in a relevant subject, and at least ten years of experience as a manager with personnel and budget responsibility and strategic work at international infrastructure within life science or bioinformatics.
• Documented multi-year experience of own research within life science/bioinformatics
• Documented experience of large-scale data management, high-performance computing systems (HPC), GPU acceleration, and parallel file systems
• Documented experience leading personnel and operations for bioinformatics support and development of bioinformatic services and tools
• Documented experience securing competitive funding for own projects, and driving these as PI
• Documented experience in training and educating researchers and technical personnel within life science
• Documented experience in your own role as a software developer with experience of containerization technologies, e.g., Docker
• Very good ability to communicate fluently in English, both orally and in writing

Desirable/meritorious in other respects

• Knowledge of or interest in Swedish biomedical research and infrastructure
• Experience working with Scrum or similar agile methods
• Experience in strategy development for digital infrastructure

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability. The applicant must have very good collaboration skills, initiative-taking ability, and good communicative qualities, and be able to show active competence development relevant to the job description. As a person, you should be flexible, creative, and service-oriented. You should also be quality-conscious and goal- and result-oriented.

Other

The employment is permanent and full-time with a desired start date of 2026-09-01 or as agreed. Probationary period of 6 months may apply.

How to Apply

The position is applied for via the university's recruitment system. The application must include a cover letter explaining why you are interested in the position and how the position matches your merits. The application must also include a CV or equivalent and any other documents you wish to submit (copies of degree certificates).

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