Part-Time

Senior Advisor

Posted on 8/21/2026

Axle

Axle

201-500 employees

Translational research informatics and data science

Compensation Overview

$60 - $75/hr

Rockville, MD, USA

In Person

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
Legal & Compliance (1)
Required Skills
Data Science
Data Governance
HIPAA

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Requirements
  • A Master's degree in a related field, or a Bachelor's degree plus additional specialized experience equivalent to a Master's degree per Government determination.
  • Three years of specialized experience.
Responsibilities
  • Provide senior-level strategic and operational advisory support to assist Government leadership in ensuring program resources align with mission-critical needs and scientific activities meet established performance standards.
  • Advise Government staff on compliance with applicable federal transparency, reporting, and data-sharing requirements, including the FDA Modernization Act, the Open Government Data Act of 2018, and the NIH Public Access Policy.
  • Provide senior-level guidance on data governance and privacy protections for sensitive personal health information, ensuring adherence to HIPAA and the National Pediatric Research Network Act's privacy provisions.
  • Provide senior-level advisory support for strategic engagement with partners across research, programmatic, and community stakeholders to strengthen program credibility and support early risk identification.

Axle Informatics provides specialized informatics solutions for translational research, health informatics, and data science to biomedical research centers and healthcare organizations. Its offerings are customized software and data management platforms that help researchers collect, integrate, analyze, and visualize large research datasets, with end-to-end tools that automate data aggregation and deliver analytics, dashboards, and decision-support features. The company differentiates itself with an integrated, scientifically informed approach that bridges data science with application development, specifically focused on translational research and clinical data work rather than generic software. Axle’s goal is to advance public health by moving biomedical discoveries from the lab to bedside, improving healthcare outcomes.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Rockville, Maryland

Founded

2002

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • NIH awarded Axle the $11.2 million N3C Dynamic Workspaces task order on September 30, 2025.
  • NCATS extended Axle through June 27, 2026, signaling trust during transition risk.
  • SK pharmteco partnered with Axle and NIH on rare-disease gene therapy programs on May 7, 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Axle depends heavily on NIH funding; one recompete failure hits revenues by 2027.
  • NCATS limited-source notices in 2025-2026 show mission-critical work gets rebid fast.
  • A larger integrator like Dovel or Leidos can underprice Axle and compress margins.

What makes Axle unique

  • Axle embeds inside NIH, winning NCATS and NIAID support work in 2025-2026.
  • Its translational-research niche blends biomedical science, software engineering, and federal program management.
  • Repeated sole-source extensions show NIH treats Axle as operational infrastructure, not a commodity vendor.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

401(k) Company Match

Educational Benefits for Career Growth

Employee Referral Bonus

Flexible Spending Accounts

Company News

TheGWW.com
Jul 25th, 2023
“Octo awarded $64.7M IT Infrastructure Call Order to support NCI’s Cancer research”

Octo, in partnership with Unissant, Axle Informatics, and TRex, has been awarded an IT Infrastructure and Operations Call Order to support the NCI’s OCIO.

GlobeNewswire
Jan 12th, 2023
Digital Pathology Market Worth $1.86 Billion by 2030 -

For instance, in May 2020, Indica Labs (U.S.), a provider of digital pathology solutions, collaborated with information technology consulting companies, Octo (U.S.) and Axle Informatics (U.S.) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (U.S.), to develop an online collection of high-resolution histopathology images of tissues from COVID-19 patients using Indica’s HALO Link platform.