Lead Single-Cell Bioinformatician – Immune & Tissue Genomics

Wellcome Sanger Institute

England

Hybrid

GBP 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Bioinformatician to lead single-cell and spatial data analysis across multiple projects focusing on immune cell biology and reproductive tissues. You will troubleshoot workflows from alignment to downstream inference and design biologically informed analytical approaches.

The role requires deep expertise in scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and multi-omics, with collaboration across an interdisciplinary team and opportunities

Qualifications

PhD or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
Extensive experience with single-cell transcriptomics and data variability sources.
Ability to align computational work with project goals and timelines.
Publications or equivalent outputs demonstrating research productivity.

Responsibilities

Lead analysis and interpretation of large-scale single-cell and spatial datasets across projects.
Develop and apply analytical strategies beyond standard pipelines.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary team and communicate results to stakeholders.
Organise developed code and data within the group.

Skills

Single-cell data analysis

Problem-solving

Collaborative work

Scientific communication

Workload management

Education

PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Genomics

Tools

Python

Unix/HPC

Job description

The role requires deep expertise in scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and multi-omics, with collaboration across an interdisciplinary team and opportunities

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