Bioinformatician – Research Services
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
Company Description
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Job Description
Our team of Bioinformaticians provide high calibre bioinformatics research support to external researchers and industrial partners by enabling analysis, facilitating access to datasets and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Data Centre.
This Bioinformatician within Research Support will act as a second line of support for users of the Research Environment and take responsibility for delivering the best outcome for users. They will be intimately familiar with the data and applications.
The research support team is also responsible for the stewardship of genomic data and its effective flow through products into the various research products.
The role includes elements of a bioinformatician and data analyst, ensuring that our users have an excellent customer experience.
In this role, you'll be a superuser of our datasets and our research environment, advocating both internally and externally, while working with researchers from academia and industry to ensure their scientific projects are successful.
You will support our users in working with our data and contribute to data generation, intake and extraction through airlocks.
You will also develop templates and documentation on accessing data and running analyses in the environment, and carry out custom analyses on demand.
Everyday responsibilities include:
* Extensive hands-on experience in analysis of large-scale genomic data using bioinformatics tools and pipelines.
* Competence in R, Python or similar language appropriate for large-scale genomics analysis.
* Experience with working in the cloud and familiarity with the services and benefits it brings.
* Demonstrable experience in using next generation sequencing data.
Skills and Experience for Success
We anticipate the ideal candidate will have:
* Strong background in human disease genetics, preferably in cancer or rare disease, demonstrated by publication record or industry track record.
* Experience writing pipelines in WDL or Nextflow
* Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds (e.g. management, IT, R&D, biology, bioinformatics) and a clear understanding of clinical and phenotypic data management and the sensitivities surrounding patient cohort data which is highly advantageous.
* You'll have excellent interpersonal skills, keeping track of customer relationships, providing high calibre troubleshooting, identifying unmet customer needs and suggesting solutions to improve material.
Qualifications
Educated to MSc level (or higher), in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, or a related scientific discipline.
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Additional Information
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
* 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
* A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
* Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
* A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
* Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
* Blended working arrangements
Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you
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