Context And Mission The Technologies for Biomedical Research Lab (TechBioLab) is part of the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and brings together specialised teams with a focus on developing infrastructures that support Life Sciences research.

This includes software components for bioinformatics, research data management – especially in healthcare – and scientific and technical benchmarking of research software in close collaboration with various communities and projects.

Special attention is given to technological developments enabling the analysis of sensitive data in federated settings.

Complementing these efforts, the Lab also contributes to the development of Trusted Research Environments that enable the use of research data on single sites under specific, configurable usage conditions.

The Laboratory also coordinates the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB).

The INB is the major bioinformatics platform in Spain and represents the Spanish node of ELIXIR.

ELIXIR is a pan-European organization founded in which aims to integrate and harmonize European bioinformatics infrastructures.

ELIXIR coordinates the participation of more than 22 countries; engages with other strategic European initiatives and projects, ESFRI, Research Data Alliance, EUDat, and EGI; promotes specific training activities and workshops on ELIXIR resources, partners with industry, and plays a key role in shaping the bioinformatics landscape.

Since , the INB has two overarching objectives: to deepen the alignment of its activities with ELIXIR, and increase the translational impact of INB actions towards the Spanish National Health System (SNS).

For the latter objective, the INB has created and supports the Translational Bioinformatics Network (TransBioNet), which aims to structure, bring together, and work with bioinformatics groups in healthcare settings with a particular focus on the Health Research Institutes (IIS) recognized by the Carlos III Institute of Health (ISCIII).

The INB also coordinates the Data Science programme within the Spanish Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine associated with Science and Technology (IMPaCT in Spanish),



which aims to establish an interoperable framework for biomedical data integration and analysis, addressing questions from clinicians through the implementation of computing systems in health environments.

This programme will prepare clinical data in Spain for secondary use, including medical imaging, structured and non-structured clinical data and genomics, considering all the legal provisions for each possible use and setting.

This programme involves the liaison with diverse stakeholders, including hospitals, the ISCIII, companies in the biomedical sector, the Spanish Medicines Agency and biomedical researchers, among others.

All developments will be aligned with the European initiatives in the area, including those from ELIXIR, 1+Million Genomes, the General Alliance for Genomics and Health and data-sharing projects such as FAIR4Health, HealthyCloud and TEHDAS.

The INB manages a portfolio of bioinformatics resources, including platforms, databases, individual tools and web-services.

This portfolio, known as Service Delivery Plan (SDP), constitutes the scientific-technical contribution of Spain to ELIXIR.

The candidate will join a dynamic Life Sciences department team, working in the highly cooperative, multidisciplinary, distributed context of ELIXIR and INB (Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute/ELIXIR-ES) and related national initiatives.

Within TechBioLab, the Research Digital Assets Management team focuses on ensuring that research data and software are managed according to good practices and remain sustainable, reusable and accessible over time.

Key Duties Contribute to research data management planning across research projects.

Promote and implement best practices in data stewardship and research data management, ensuring compliance with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles.





Develop and support the implementation of data governance policies, guidelines and procedures.

Provide training, guidance, and ongoing support to researchers on data management best practices, tools and relevant standards.

Represent TechBioLab in Research Data Management (RDM) activities at national (INB) and European (ELIXIR) levels.

This includes contributing to RDM-related projects IMPaCT-Data), representing the organisation in relevant initiatives, and supporting the design and delivery of RDM training programmes.

Lead and coordinate initiatives to strengthen Research Data Management capabilities and practices across the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB).

Requirements Education MSc in data science, bioinformatics, or a related field.

Alternatively, demonstrated experience in data management and stewardship.

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Experience in data stewardship and research data management.

Familiarity with FAIR data principles and best practices in data quality management.

Familiarity with data analysis with R, Python or SQL.

Understanding of the regulatory requirements related to biomedical data management.

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Fluency in spoken and written English.

Competences Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Ability to work independently and within a team.

Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (35h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona Starting date: 16/01/2026

📌 Research Data Manager And Biomedical Data Stewardship - Research Engineer (Re2) (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona