Research Data Manager

The role

Looks after the project's research data from intake to sharing: bringing the macaques' multi-omic, immune, social, physiological, survival and reproductive data together in PostgreSQL databases, keeping them accurate and documented, and serving as the main contact for data sharing across the project's cores and sub-projects.

What the work covers

• Integrating large datasets from free-ranging primates: single-cell and bulk-tissue multi-omics, immune phenotypes, social networks, longitudinal physiology, survival and reproduction
• Running and developing the PostgreSQL databases, and the intake pipelines that feed them
• Connecting lab information management systems (LIMS) and sample tracking to the central biorepository database
• APIs, and the data discovery and sharing portal, including curated metadata releases
• Validation, auditing and quality control of incoming data

What they're looking for

• A bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent mix of experience and training
• Preferred: a master's and 3 or more years of experience, or a PhD, in computational biology, bioinformatics, genetics or genomics, evolutionary or quantitative biology, anthropology, aging biology or a related field
• Preferred: research experience in evolutionary biology, genetics or genomics, biological aging, or primate biology
• Preferred: relational databases, especially PostgreSQL (schema design, upkeep and queries), and linking LIMS or sample inventories to them
• Preferred: data intake pipelines, scientific scripting, APIs, and QC and metadata auditing
• Preferred: explaining needs between database engineers, investigators and domain scientists

How to apply

Through ASU Careers, send:

• Cover letter
• Resume or CV, with month and year for each position, and its title, duties and employer

By 11:59 pm Arizona time on 16 Nov 2026. Current ASU employees and student workers apply through the Workday Jobs Hub instead.

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