Team Lead Data Science Platform – DTU Biosustain

Do you want freedom, work-life balance and flexibility while having a real impact?

Then, this job is for you.

If you are a skilled and talented data scientist with experience or interest in managing a team, and you are looking to make a difference working on projects that will have impact on world level challenges, this position is tailored to you! Your work will be an essential part of multiple initiatives towards the development of new environmentally friendly products, cleaner and more sustainable manufacturing and farming processes, new medical treatments, and richer biodiversity and ecosystems. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing new analytical and machine learning tools that will help to interpret complex multimodal data, and you will do it in collaboration with top research scientist in the field and in an international, motivating, flexible, supportive and friendly environment at a leading research and education institution in Europe.

About the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Biosustainability
Biosustainability is the discovery, production, and use of biochemicals at scale to avoid the depletion of natural resources and the harmful impact of existing ones such as fossil fuels on societies, economies, and environments. The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Biosustainability (CfB) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Technical University of Denmark with 300 employees that develops new knowledge and technology to support the production of biochemicals using microbial production. The Centre comprises core facilities and academic research groups doing both basic research to determine the spectrum of chemistry that can be produced biologically and applied/translational approaches focusing on enhancing the strain design and development process. Learn more about our activities and expertise at biosustain.dtu.dk. The Informatics Platform
The Informatics Platform at CfB is composed of three teams that provide support to the Centre’s research groups and core facilities and help to extend and promote data and data science at CfB and DTU. The platform includes: the Research Data Management, the Data Science Platform and the Research Software Engineering teams that aim to develop innovative and robust tools to make the best out of the large amounts of data generated at the Centre and contribute to creating products and processes that are environmentally friendly, socially responsible, and economically viable. Further, the Informatics Platform interacts closely with several Data science-focused research labs at the Center. In this role, you will lead several experienced data scientists focusing on the digitalization and automation of data processes and analytical workflows in collaboration with data stewards, software developers and researchers. The Informatics Platform offers a dynamic, creative, and scientific environment ideal for candidates that enjoy working with different types of data, state-of-the-art methods and surrounded by supportive, diverse, and open-minded colleagues. 

The Informatics Platform and the team you will be leading represent strategic investments by CFB, and the Center has a strong commitment to support the development of the team to become a key player in its current and future mission. This will open multiple possibilities for the candidate to grow together with the team and to become an influential contributor to the data science landscape at DTU and in Denmark.

The job
As a team lead your primary tasks will be to: 

• Set direction for your team based on the center’s and your team’s strategy and overall goals
• Lead and motivate your team
• Define Data Science guidelines and standards

However, if you are passionate about data science, don’t worry you will still have the opportunity to design and implement data science solutions and develop bioinformatics pipelines to process, analyse and interpret multi-modal data (e.g., omics, images, etc.).

The ideal candidate has the following skills

• PhD or MSc in computational biology, statistics, mathematics, computer science or related topics
• Advanced knowledge of Python and its scientific libraries and data stack (numpy, pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, pytorch, etc.)
• Proficiency in statistics and machine learning, including the ability to use statistical techniques to analyse data, build predictive models, and evaluate their performance.
• Software engineering skills such as documentation, testing and CI/CD
• Domain knowledge about omics (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics)
• Experience processing, analysing and interpreting biological datasets
• Experience as researcher or experience with research from a support function in a Life Science/Biotech R&D environment
• Good English skills written and spoken and Danish skills (you can understand Danish in a professional setting/at meetings etc.)
• Motivation for developing your skills as a people manager
• Enjoys working with people and has good communication skills
• Curious, proactive, motivated and able to work independently 
• Basic knowledge of agile development principles and motivation for elaborating your skills

Salary and appointment terms
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union. This is a permanent position.

Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than 5 June 2024. Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated letter, CV and list of publications. 

If you would like additional information about the position, please contact Director Informatics Platform, Alberto Santos [email protected].

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion, or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.