Director of Laboratory Information System (LIS) Engineering

Letsgetchecked - Monrovia, CA

Full-time - Senior

Monrovia, CA

Health and Personal Care Retailers

About the position

The Director of Laboratory Information System (LIS) Engineering at LetsGetChecked is responsible for strategically designing, supporting, and maintaining applications across the organization to ensure high levels of application availability. This role involves defining standards and models for application and database architectures, evaluating technology components, and leading the development of custom applications to improve business efficiency and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Gather user/stakeholder needs and develop requirements and process specifications.
• Develop process and system architectures to meet specifications and requirements.
• Write scripts and instrument interfaces, conduct validations, and manage ongoing development and support of the system.
• Interface with stakeholders in reviews and routine meetings.
• Apply communication and problem-solving skills to assist the user group on issues related to LIS and laboratory software systems.
• Develop custom applications to improve business efficiency and scalability.
• Work with LIS vendor to develop and support customizations to LIMS/LIS software.
• Architect effective solutions with business product owners.
• Develop and implement new applications, reports, workflows, data exports, interfaces, and calculations.
• Serve as point-of-contact on software maintenance and support issues.
• Assess and cultivate long-term strategic goals for development in conjunction with stakeholders.
• Analyze user requirements and design functional specifications for databases and applications.
• Coordinate with technical staff to develop relational databases and applications.
• Develop automated database applications using applicable development tools.
• Identify data entry, retrieval, change, and delete issues to ensure high data availability.
• Work with project managers to meet business requirements for project completion.
• Plan and implement capacity and resource expansion for scalability.
• Identify inefficiencies in current applications and leverage solutions.
• Install and configure components to ensure database access.
• Diagnose and resolve database access and performance issues.
• Design and deploy data table structures, forms, reports, and queries.
• Perform cost estimates for data migration during upgrades and plan migrations.
• Assist with the design of redundant systems and disaster recovery policies.
• Evaluate and select database and application components.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on development products and standards.
• Mentor and provide leadership to team members.

Requirements

• College diploma or university degree in computer science, information systems, or computer engineering and/or 5+ years equivalent work experience.
• Experienced in the development of .Net applications, C#, VB, and/or Java Script.
• Working technical experience with developing, installing, configuring, and supporting multi-terabyte database environments.
• Experience with database platforms including Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, or 12c, SQL Server, and/or MySQL.
• Experience with database design applications including SQL plus, SQL developer, and/or Toad for Oracle.
• Strong understanding of relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
• In-depth technical knowledge of network, PC, and platform operating systems including Windows, Linux, or Solaris.
• Working technical knowledge of current database software, protocols, and standards including PL/SQL.
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Nice-to-haves

• General knowledge of analytical and laboratory processes with 5+ years' experience in a regulated laboratory environment.
• Prior 3+ years in a previous LIS Developer or Engineering role is preferred.
• C#, VB, Java Script, MVC, PL-SQL and T-SQL coding abilities and other coding languages as needed.
• Strong knowledge of relational database design.
• Report/BI development abilities.
• Strong understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Health insurance and an Employee Assistance Programme
• 401k
• Annual Compensation Reviews
• Flexible PTO policy
• Free monthly LetsGetChecked tests
• Referral bonus programme
• Internal Opportunities and Careers Clinics
• Maternity, Paternity, Parental and Wedding leave