Lead Senior Bioinformatician
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4
Remuneration: $147,653 - $175,917 per annum + Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ669418
Location: Negotiable - Sydney or Newcastle
Applications Close: 05 July 2026 - 11:59pm
About the opportunity
Are you ready for your next career move?
You will play a key role in establishing and maintaining best-practice frameworks for validation, quality, and compliance, ensuring systems meet regulatory and accreditation requirements. You will also contribute to service development by providing technical expertise, supporting the translation of new assays and technologies into clinical workflows, and driving continuous improvement in statewide bioinformatics capability.
What you'll be doing
The Lead Senior Bioinformatician provides statewide technical and operational leadership for bioinformatics across NSW Health Pathology, spanning clinical genomics service delivery, platform engineering, and translational research.
The role is accountable for the design, standardisation, implementation, and ongoing performance of bioinformatics systems, workflows, and data services that support the Statewide Sequencing Service (SWSS) and broader genomics programs. This includes ensuring genomic data is processed, validated, and delivered in a consistent, secure, and interoperable manner across NSWHP.
Operating across organisational boundaries, the role integrates laboratory, clinical, ICT/DevOps, and research functions to ensure bioinformatics solutions are fit for purpose, scalable, and aligned with service needs. The position is responsible for translating strategy into operational systems and ensuring reliable and compliant service delivery.
The role also leads and develops a team of bioinformaticians and provides expert technical leadership to drive service performance, standardisation, innovation, and continuous improvement.
The role will be based in Sydney or Newcastle, within NSW Health Pathology’s Genomics and Bioinformatics function.
What we can offer you
Financial Benefits - Generous salary packaging options and other fringe benefits
Work-life Balance - Up to 12 additional days off per year in addition to Annual Leave (for full-time employees)
Professional Growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning
Health & Wellbeing - Fitness Passport gym discounts and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and families.
Interested in joining Australia’s largest public pathology service? Apply now by addressing the following questions:
- Postgraduate qualification in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering, Genomics, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience providing expert technical advice, operational leadership and decision-making in bioinformatics within clinical genomics or large-scale data environments, to support the implementation and ongoing operational support of services.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and govern bioinformatics systems and pipelines for production use in regulated environments. Demonstrated experience in validation, accreditation, documentation and compliance processes (e.g. NATA/NPAAC or equivalent).
- Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to interpret complex genomic data and systems and apply this to operational and service improvement decisions.
- Proven capability to lead and develop high-performing technical teams, including mentoring, coaching, and building bioinformatics capability across multidisciplinary teams
- Strong experience with cloud and/or HPC environments, data platforms, and integration of bioinformatics workflows with enterprise systems.
- Experience translating research and emerging technologies into production-ready bioinformatics solutions
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work across laboratory, clinical, scientific, and ICT domains to support delivery and adoption.
Information for applicants
NSW Health Pathology is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We value, and welcome all suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, background, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
NSW Health Pathology is committed to providing accessibility and reasonable accommodations and ensuring our recruitment process is flexible, inclusive, and free from barriers, promoting equal opportunities for all to succeed. Please reach out if you need adjustments.
NSW Health Pathology is committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce in public health. For Aboriginal candidates, support is available through the Stepping Up website
You must have valid working rights in Australia for the duration of the appointment to be eligible to apply.
All workers must meet NSW Health’s vaccination and screening requirements before starting employment. See PD2026_004 for more detail. The preferred candidate may be required to undergo a functional assessment prior to appointment.
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Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
2) Find out more about applying for this position
3) For role related queries or questions contact Nicole Pearce on nicole.pearce@health.nsw.gov.au
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