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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, San Diego Technology - **Company:** Vertex, Inc. - **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $198,000.0 - $297,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cyber Security, Laboratory Information Management Systems, Operational Systems, GXP - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=999d002f76a76e08 ## About the Role * Strong senior-level business engagement and stakeholder partnership capabilities. * Deep understanding of enterprise technology operations, cyber security, ITSM, and system lifecycle practices. * Proven people leadership experience building and sustaining high-performing teams. * Program, portfolio, demand, and financial management expertise. * Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and executive-level presentation skills. * Ability to balance operational stability with innovation in regulated environments. * Comfort operating in a matrixed accountability model - shaping and routing demand where the build/architecture decision rests with a peer platform owner, not this role., * 10+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. * Demonstrated leadership managing enterprise-scale technology platforms and support organizations. * Proven experience operating within GxP- and SOX-regulated environments. * Experience leading complex programs, portfolios, and vendor ecosystems with financial accountability.Experience operating as a product owner, business relationship manager, or similar demand-shaping role - translating ambiguous stakeholder input into structured, prioritized backlog items. ## Description This role leads a team responsible for the architecture, delivery, security, support, and continuous evolution of enterprise laboratory technology platforms - including laboratory Operational Technology (OT) such as information/cyber security, sensors, and IoT-enabled lab environments - across San Diego. It is also the single accountable Research Site Partner for San Diego: the primary DTE relationship holder for the site's SVP and research leadership, and the front door through which site requirements are captured, shaped, and routed into the correct cross-functional platform backlog (Experiment Capture, Registration, LIMS, and peer DTE platforms in Research & Pre-Clinical, CMC/Manufacturing, and Supply Chain) This role is accountable for operational excellence, financial stewardship, and risk management across a complex laboratory technology landscape, including ownership of an approximately $3M annual operating budget. In parallel, the role carries accountability for local technology adoption, change management, and cross-site prioritization advocacy - ensuring San Diego's voice shapes the shared platform roadmap without the site building or maintaining local one-off solutions. Key Duties and Responsibilities: * Technology & Operations Leadership * Build and sustain strong, trust-based relationships with senior business, quality, and DTE leaders, acting as a strategic partner with sustained impact on enterprise laboratory goals. * Lead, develop, and retain a highly effective Lab Engineering Support organization, leveraging internal resources and external partners through a managed service provider model. * Ensure stable, secure, and compliant laboratory technology operations across both IT and OT environments, aligned to cyber security, ITSM, ITIL, and DTE system lifecycle standards. * Serve as the primary point of accountability for laboratory technology partnering with DTE Compliance, Cyber Security, Internal Audit, and Quality Assurance. * Own and manage the site's operating budget, ensuring disciplined financial planning, forecasting, vendor management, and value realization across services and platforms. * Oversee a portfolio of programs, projects, platform releases, and enhancements delivered at the site, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with business outcomes. * Lead technology-driven modernization of the laboratory environment - intelligent automation, agentic workflows, passive data capture, IoT-enabled instruments, and connected lab environments - translating innovation into pragmatic, compliant roadmaps. * Attract, develop, and retain top talent; carry full people-management accountability for assigned staff. * Research Site Partnership * Serve as the single accountable owner for technology adoption, change, and the DTE relationship at San Diego - the primary partner to the site SVP and research leadership. * Act as the site's product owner: capture requirements and user stories directly from scientists and shape raw, ambiguous input into clear, prioritized demand. * Be the single front door for San Diego - route shaped requirements to the correct platform owner (within Laboratory Solutions or peer DTE platform organizations) rather than site stakeholders engaging each platform team directly. * Drive local adoption and change management for new platform capabilities; carry roadmap and delivery updates back to site scientists and leadership on a regular cadence. * Represent the site's voice in cross-site, cross-functional prioritization forums, ensuring the shared platform roadmap reflects the site's highest-value needs. * Maintain a transparent, current view of the site's demand status and backlog position that site stakeholders can see and understand., In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as: 1. Hybrid : work remotely up to two days per week; or select 2. On-Site : work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility. 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