Scientific Data Architect / Senior Scientific Data Architect- EMEA Remote ID-10488

Who We Are
TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Cloud company with a mission to radically improve and extend human life. TetraScience combines the world's only open, purpose-built, and collaborative scientific data and AI cloud with deep scientific expertise across the value chain to accelerate and improve scientific outcomes. TetraScience is catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which it brings to life in a growing suite of next generation lab data management products, scientific use cases, and AI-based outcomes.

Our core values, defined and embodied by Tetra Leadership, are designed to guide our behaviors, actions, and decisions such that we operate as one. We are looking to add individuals to our team that demonstrate and also embody the following values:

Who You Are

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with fellow team members, customers, field engineers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.

You relentlessly strive to excel in your craft. You are passionate about building, observing and operating distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying new systems to production and are willing to challenge the boundaries of the scale.

You consistently seek understanding and clarity. You look at every interaction as an opportunity to learn. You aren’t afraid to ask questions. You have the humility and confidence to not be the smartest person in the room.

What You Will Do

  • Translate scientific data workflows into a solution leveraging the Tetra Data Platform
  • Own, scope, prototype, and implement solutions ranging from:
    • Programmatically interrogate proprietary instrument output file
    • Data structure design using JSON schemas
    • Python-based parser development
    • Lab software (e.g. ELN/LIMS) integration via APIs
    • Data visualization in Python (using frameworks like Jupyter Notebooks or Streamlit and plotting tools like hvplot or bokeh) and/or BI tools (like Tableau, Spotfire, PowerBI)
  • Interview customers to understand key scientific and business requirements
  • Work with customers to test and ensure a solution fulfills their requirements and solves their need
  • Real-time problem solving by quickly internalizing customer needs or feedback, synthesizing the results, and proposing solutions
  • Proactively communicate implementation progress and deliver demos to customer stakeholders
  • Lead sprint-planning and prioritization for your use case or account
  • Facilitate internal project retrospective meetings and identify areas of improvement or productizable components
  • Assist product team to build and prioritize roadmap by understanding customers’ pain points within and outside Tetra Data Platform
  • >5 years leveraging Python for scripting, automation, data analysis, data engineering, and/or data science
  • >3 years in life sciences, whether at the bench in Biopharma, bioinformatics, or in the vendor space
  • Ability to quickly understand a highly technical product and effectively communicate with product management and engineering
  • Passionate about science and building solutions to make data more accessible to end-users
  • Intellectually curious: unwavering drive to learn more every day
  • Intellectually resilient: able to overcome setbacks and find alternate solutions
  • Excellent communications skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to take control of project delivery
  • Team player and ability to "roll up your sleeves" and do what it takes to make the team successful
  • Travel to customer sites within EMEA (up to 20%)
  • Nice to have: hand on experience working leveraging cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) for solution design and architecture
  • Competitive Salary and equity in a fast-growing company.
  • Supportive, team-oriented culture of continuous improvement.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO).
  • Flexible working arrangements - Remote work.
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