Business Applications Engineer

Company Description

DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science community. DNAnexus’ health informatics platform serves customers across a spectrum of industries — government, biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, and academic research in 33 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. The platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and real world data can be combined with clinical data at scale, providing new insights that can lead to improved diagnostics, new targeted therapies and better patient care.

Job Description

As a key part of the IT & Security team at DNAnexus, the Business Applications Engineer will drive the maturity and capabilities of our key business systems (including ERP CRM).  You will build systems that enable our business to more faster and with more precision.  Gaining familiarity with our business processes, building trust and rapport with our business leaders, and driving simplicity and elegance in our business systems are key to your success; you will be a crucial part of the team driving our rapid market expansion.

The problems you will solve:

• As the Business Applications Engineer, you will design enterprise app architectures that meet our current and future business needs.
• You will drive maturity (Security & Operational Stability) in our existing business systems (including SalesForce and Netsuite).
• To enable rapid and accurate decision making, you will develop and optimize data pipelines from our SaaS platform to our enterprise CRM and ERP systems by working with the platform engineering team.
• The self-service analytics capabilities that you design and implement will permit our people to make rapid, accurate and consistent data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

To succeed you’ll need:

• High integrity, principles, and ethics.
• A strong understanding how standard business processes work (including lead generation, opportunity management, order to cash, expansion/growth, and financial planning)
• Prior experience with designing and implementing a technical program that included problem solving via code development (e.g. programming APEX, Python, Ruby, Go, or a similar language).
• Development experience with SalesForce, NetSuite or similar enterprise platforms.
• Proven track record of managing external service providers as part of integrated, high-quality delivery of objectives.
• Close familiarity with using public cloud services to provision SaaS/PaaS to external customers (our core business model).
• A self starter that can work independently and collaboratively across multiple workstreams without technical program management support.
• A highly collaborative, team player with a company-first mentality; ability to influence, prioritize, and get alignment cross-functionally.  Able to ignite the creativity and curiosity of others.
• Flexible, nimble, and scrappy; startup mentality and willingness/ability to change direction quickly if best for the business.
• Takes a data centric, objective approach to decision making and has the ability to put aside personal preferences, historical bias, peer pressure and political influences to arrive at decisions on a reasoned, objectively-defensible basis.

Additional Information

Based in Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $100 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital.

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today! 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.