Lead Technical Consultant

Alphanumeric is hiring a Lead Technical Consultant to work remotely out of the Research Triangle Park, NC area with our client of 20 years committed to improving lives through medical and pharmaceutical advancements.

We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on 'data mechanics'

• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent

• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

Onyx Product Management is at the heart of our mission, ensuring that everything from our infrastructure, to platforms, to end-user facing data assets and environments is designed to maximize our impact on R&D. The Product Management team partners with R&D stakeholders and Onyx leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for all customer-facing aspects of Onyx, including data assets, ontology, Knowledge Graph / semantic search, data / computing / analysis platforms, and data-powered applications.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Lead for our Computing Platforms Products. In this role, you will be responsible for developing the product strategy of our Computing Platform to meet customer needs. You will partner closely with Onyx's organizations, including AI/ML, a diversity of R&D teams utilizing data to accelerate drug discovery (genomics sciences, computational biology, imaging, computational chemistry, to name a few), along with the Onyx portfolio management and engineering function heads to deliver industry-leading solutions that power R&D workloads.

You will drive the product roadmap, guide product development initiatives, and ensure the successful launch and adoption of our Compute platform including the migration of existing applications to the platform. Together, you will facilitate joint planning and execution of the product roadmap, ensuring a balance between strategic development and customer-facing deliverables. You will also play a key role in devising, tracking, and publicizing metrics that measure the impact and performance of Onyx Compute Platform Products. You will be responsible for understanding the business areas using Onyx, Platform capabilities, translating customer needs into requirements aligned with standard frameworks such as ontologies and engineering pipelines, and ensure our R&D teams receive the solutions they need to succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hands-on IT experience: This role will lead multiple cloud migrating projects for legacy business systems from On-Premises ('On-Prem') to Google Cloud, and requires significant experience as technical individual contributor or solutions engineer for similar projects.

• Past Migration Experience: ideal candidates will have served as a technical individual contributor, engineer or technical leads (preferred) with migration experience in unix OS environments, networking, networking, Unix administration, job scheduling, automation, bash scripting (python acceptable too) and security.

• Prior Experience with Migrations: Have strong prior technical experience service as technical lead, technical individual contributor, or solutions engineer for on-prem to cloud migrations - be experienced with scoping and defining technical project requirements, and lead migration efforts through development, UAT, and 'go-live'.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with engineering, R&D and Product teams and ensure effective communication, documentation, and training to drive product adoption and success.