Bioinformatics Manager — ML & Platform Lead

Excelra Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Mentoring opportunities

International team

Salary with benefits

Job summary

Excelra Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Ghent, Belgium, seeks a Scientific Manager to turn complex biological questions into scalable analytical systems for Life Sciences R&D clients.

You will lead bioinformatics projects, design data models and pipelines, build algorithms and platforms, and communicate results to pharma and research partners, while mentoring a growing team and collaborating with international clients.

Qualifications

• PhD in bioscience, bioinformatics, CS or related field or MSc with 5+ years relevant experience.
• Proven delivery of end-to-end data modelling, algorithm development and pipeline engineering.
• Strong genomics and transcriptomics background including variant interpretation.
• Hands-on ML experience with biological data and model benchmarking.
• Experience building production-grade pipelines on HPC and cloud infra.
• Familiar with GO, HPO ontologies and biological network analysis.
• Solid biostatistics skills: experimental design and correlation analyses.
• Excellent written and spoken English; publications expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead bioinformatics projects for pharma and biotech stakeholders from framing to delivery of results.
• Gather requirements with scientists and data engineers; define data formats and success criteria.
• Present analyses clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage projects with Agile methods: roadmaps, backlogs, sprints, code reviews.
• Design data models and pipelines for omics analyses.
• Support target identification and therapeutic modality work.
• Develop interpretable ML models for biological predictions.
• Build and query knowledge graphs integrating multi-omics data.
• Architect modular, reproducible workflows on HPC and cloud.
• Mentor team members and contribute to tooling standards.

Skills

Bioinformatics

Project leadership

Communication

Agile methods

Education

PhD in Bioscience Engineering or related

MSc with 5+ years experience

Tools

Python

R

Bash

SQL

Docker

Snakemake

Targets

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Neo4j

Job description

Excelra Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Ghent, Belgium, seeks a Scientific Manager to turn complex biological questions into scalable analytical systems for Life Sciences R&D clients.

You will lead bioinformatics projects, design data models and pipelines, build algorithms and platforms, and communicate results to pharma and research partners, while mentoring a growing team and collaborating with international clients.