Bioinformatics Engineer — Genomics Data & Cloud Analytics

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 52,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave

Hybrid working

Pension & Life Assurance

Learning budget

Recognition program

Health benefits

Job summary

Genomics England in Cambridge is seeking a Bioinformatics Engineer to join the Interpretation Platform within the DSS squad. Built on AWS and Python, you will support data lifecycle and integration from bioinformatics pipelines powering cancer and rare disease interpretation fronts.

You will develop production-quality algorithms for high-throughput sequencing data analysis, work in an agile squad, and contribute to testing, deployment and documentation to ensure traceability and robust software

Qualifications

• Familiarity with NGS tertiary annotation tools and databases.
• Proficient in Linux, Git, PostgreSQL (or similar RDBMS).
• Solid expertise of developing production quality algorithms and software to analyse large datasets.
• Experience working in agile environments and demonstrable effectiveness in agile squads.
• Experience working with AWS serverless technologies including Lambda, Step Functions, S3.
• Experience working with containerised applications (Docker).

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality code for high throughput sequencing data analysis, genome analysis and interpretation.
• Contribute to all testing and deployment stages up to the production environment.
• Contributetodiscoverytasksduringtheinitialphaseofnewdevelopments and achieve understanding of early-stage decisions to inform the final software design.
• Write documentation that will achieve a log of decisions, designs, tests, results etc. that enable full traceability of processes.
• Beaproactivememberofasquad,adoptingagilepractices, offering subject matter expertise.
• Ensureadherencetothevariousstandardsandaccreditationsrequiredfor both clinicallaboratorypracticeandsoftwaredelivery.

Skills

NGS tools

Linux

Git

PostgreSQL

Algorithms

Agile

AWS serverless

Docker

Education

MSc or higher in CS/Bioinformatics

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Job description

Genomics England in Cambridge is seeking a Bioinformatics Engineer to join the Interpretation Platform within the DSS squad. Built on AWS and Python, you will support data lifecycle and integration from bioinformatics pipelines powering cancer and rare disease interpretation fronts.

You will develop production-quality algorithms for high-throughput sequencing data analysis, work in an agile squad, and contribute to testing, deployment and documentation to ensure traceability and robust software