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The successful candidate will guide the bioinformatics team in developing, validating and documenting bioinformatic pipelines in compliance with GxP regulations supporting their full life cycle management and use in early- and late-stage clinical trials.\n## Your field of responsibility\nProvide guidance to the bioinformatics team in developing, validating, documenting and refining computational pipelines that support drug design and manufacturing decisions in early- and late-stage clinical trials\nEnsure the full Life Cycle Management of computational pipelines and novel machine learning models is in line with pharmaceutical industry best practice and current US, EU and international guidelines (e.g. FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, ICH E6, GAMP5)\nOversee and actively participate in clinical operations of the group, including running pipelines to support ongoing clinical trials\nSupport the company in establishing and maintaining a GxP-compliant IT-infrastructure\nLead and further 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