Data Steward - Scientific Data Governance & ELN Lead

Qabird; Leiden; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% holiday allowance

30 vacation days

Annual performance bonus

Stock options

Premium‑free pension plan

Commuting allowance

Subsidised staff restaurant

Unlimited snacks and drinks

Job summary

ProQR Therapeutics in Leiden (on-site) is seeking a Data Steward to own scientific data governance across R&D. You will oversee ELN/LIMS data, metadata standards, and data lifecycle, ensuring FAIR data principles and compliance with GDPR, while collaborating with Research, Bioinformatics, IT, Quality and external partners.

As a data steward, you will enable data-driven decision making, maintain data catalogues, workflows, and provide training on data standards, embedding continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Experience in scientific data management, data stewardship, or similar roles.
• Hands-on experience with ELNs and LIMS within regulated R&D environments.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (Research, IT, QA, external partners).
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, and data lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve ELN and scientific data management platforms as primary business owner.
• Establish and maintain scientific data governance, metadata standards, naming conventions, and documentation.
• Collaborate with researchers and system admins to ensure data are captured, organized, traceable and reusable under FAIR principles.
• Maintain inventory and catalogue of datasets and metadata across the organization.
• Monitor data quality and implement improvements to keep high-quality datasets.
• Develop and maintain the scientific data lifecycle, including cataloguing, retention, archiving, storage and retrieval.
• Ensure integration and traceability between ELN and systems like LIMS, repositories, SharePoint, and cloud platforms.
• Configure workflows and data structures with IT and vendors to support scientific operations.
• Support GDPR/privacy compliance and data governance policies.
• Assist in creating reports, dashboards and data visualisations for decision-making.
• Train end users on data standards and data management systems, contributing to new technologies evaluation.

Skills

Data governance

FAIR data principles

SQL

Python/R

Cloud storage

Stakeholder management

Data privacy (GDPR)

Education

BSc or MSc in Life Sciences or related

Tools

ELN/LIMS platforms

Benchling

LabKey

Dotmatics

SciNote

SharePoint

AWS/Azure

Job description

ProQR Therapeutics in Leiden (on-site) is seeking a Data Steward to own scientific data governance across R&D. You will oversee ELN/LIMS data, metadata standards, and data lifecycle, ensuring FAIR data principles and compliance with GDPR, while collaborating with Research, Bioinformatics, IT, Quality and external partners.

As a data steward, you will enable data-driven decision making, maintain data catalogues, workflows, and provide training on data standards, embedding continuous improvement