Benchling
Biotech
HeadofScientificDevelopmentSolutionsEngineering
“Head of Scientific Development Solutions Engineering at Benchling. Skills: Engineering Management, Roadmap Execution, Cloud-based Web Applications. Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum. Translate strategy into execution”
What You'll Achieve.
Compress decades of R&D work into years; Build clean, structured scientific data and AI into how science gets done; Deliver products and solutions to biologists; Achieve clear metrics and targets; Meet customer needs
Industry & Context.
Analyze complex time-series and biological and IT-driven workflows
On-site 3 days per week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10–15 years overall experience in software engineering and engineering management roles, 5+ years overall experience in SaaS or the broader high-tech commercial software sector, 5+ years of engineering management experience, 3+ years of indirectly managing other teams through subordinate engineering managers, Experience driving complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion, Experience building and deploying cloud-based web applications, Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools, Familiarity with observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting
Nice to Have
Prior experience with biotech, pharmaceutical, or other life sciences business sectors or education
What You'll Do.
Manage a group of 2–3 engineering scrum
Translate strategy into execution
Develop and execute quarterly plans
Define and execute software engineering roadmap
and onboard engineers
Act as a bar-raiser for talent
Build partnership with stakeholders
Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with senior engineering leadership; Work closely with group-level product management counterpart; Work closely with engineering leaders, PMs, and designers; Build partnership with stakeholders across engineering organization and other functions
Process & Methodology
Develop and execute quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets, Define and execute on a software engineering roadmap, Drive complex multi-quarter roadmaps to completion
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