For over 40 years, our shared commitment to curing childhood cancer has united us. Together, we continue to accelerate the answers to make that possible.

To accomplish our vision, we’re seeking someone who lives our values: owning and delivering meaningful work, collaborating to drive impact, challenging the status quo to create a better future, and balancing logic with empathy. Let’s achieve more, together.

The Health Data Informatics & AI Team Lead will accelerate existing efforts within Children’s Cancer Institute Computational Biology Group to shape the next generation of AI-enabled health data solutions at Children’s Cancer Institute. This newly created role will guide the development of advanced AI systems for health data collection and harmonisation, rapid molecular reporting, tumour classification, and knowledge graph creation. These initiatives already underpin national-scale precision medicine programs and are critical for improving diagnostic accuracy, supporting translational research and enabling real-world data reuse. 

Beyond technical delivery, this role will provide strategic leadership: defining and executing our AI roadmap, expanding institutional capability in health data informatics, and driving the adoption of innovative approaches like LLMs, RAG, and generative AI. The Health Data Informatics & AI Team Lead will also build key partnerships with technology and research leaders to deliver scalable, ethical, and interoperable solutions, ensuring CCI remains at the forefront of digital health innovation.

To succeed you will have…

• A PhD in Computer Science, AI, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related discipline, with demonstrated experience in regulated healthcare environments. 
• CHIA (Certified Health Informatician Australasia) certification would be highly desirable
• Proven track record of leading scientific or technical teams in a research-intensive environment. 
• Demonstrated experience in applying AI/ML techniques to clinical or biomedical data, including multi-omic analysis. 
• Experience in working with health data, clinical workflows, and medical research contexts. 
• Experience in designing and conducting research experiments and contributing to intellectual property or scientific invention. 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with clinical, technical, legal, and governance stakeholders. 
• Experience building partnerships with technology or industry partners (desirable)

We will support you to be your best with benefits that include but are not limited to:

• Working in a world-class, purpose-built facility, the only one in Australia dedicated to curing childhood cancer

• Focus on employee wellbeing, including up to 5 gifted wellbeing days off (paid) per year
• Access to Fitness Passport, with access to an extensive choice of fitness facilities across Sydney at discounted rates
• Corporate discounts and discounts on education through UNSW

Join us to shape a future every child deserves and to find meaning in your own. Because together, we can cure every child of cancer. It’s not if, it’s when.

Additional information about Children's Cancer Institute can be found on our website at: https://www.ccia.org.au/jobs-study . We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Children’s Cancer Institute and our culture.  We embrace diversity and encourage you to advise of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the recruitment process.