Remote Bioinformatics Scientist — Data Pipelines & QC (EMEA)

Parexel; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Parexel is seeking a Senior Associate Bioinformatics Scientist for a remote role within the EMEA region. The position focuses on quantitative bioinformatics, data operations/QC, visualization tools, pipeline automation and cross-study data integration support.

The role executes well-defined requests, runs QC analyses, maintains viewers, and may develop AI-assisted analysis code. Strong coding in R, R Shiny, Bash and Git is expected.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in bioinformatics or related field with programming experience.
• Experience with open-source tools (R, R Shiny, Bash) and Git.
• Familiarity with AI tooling and data visualization is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Figure and analysis updates for multiple subsets while preserving results.
• Run and optimize automated pipelines, document parameters and deviations.
• Data QC checks and QC summaries generation.
• Refresh data viewers (RMarkdown/Quarto/Shiny) and package outputs.
• Cross-study data mapping, harmonization and ETL checks.
• Develop Claude Code prompts to enable AI-assisted workflows.

Skills

R programming

R Shiny

Bash

Git

Claude Code

AI tools

Statistics basics

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

BS in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/CS

MS a plus

Tools

R

R Shiny

Bash

Git

Claude Code

Job description

Parexel is seeking a Senior Associate Bioinformatics Scientist for a remote role within the EMEA region. The position focuses on quantitative bioinformatics, data operations/QC, visualization tools, pipeline automation and cross-study data integration support.

The role executes well-defined requests, runs QC analyses, maintains viewers, and may develop AI-assisted analysis code. Strong coding in R, R Shiny, Bash and Git is expected.