Senior Biocurator

PierianDx India Private Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

PierianDx India Private Limited in Pune is seeking a Senior Biocurator to analyze and curate significant genomic data. Required qualifications include a PhD in genetics with postdoc experience or a Masters in molecular biology with substantial work experience.

The role involves responsibilities like communicating scientific content, following SOPs, and ensuring quality deliverables. PierianDx is committed to diversity and inclusion as an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of postdoc or work experience for PhD holders.
• 4+ years of work experience for Masters holders.
• Good understanding of genomic databases and cancer biology.

Responsibilities

• Analyze clinical studies and curate significant data.
• Communicate effectively within teams and document technical solutions.
• Follow SOP and ensure high standards of deliverables.

Skills

Genetic understanding

Molecular biology expertise

Good communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

PhD in genetics, genomics or molecular biology

Masters in molecular biology, genetics or biochemistry

Tools

GenBank

RefSeq

dbSNP

Job description

Medicine moves too slow. At Velsera, we are changing that. Velsera was formed in 2023 through the shared vision of Seven Bridges and Pierian, with a mission to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing insights. Velsera provides software and professional services for AI‑powered multimodal data harmonization and analytics for drug discovery and development, IVD development, validation, and regulatory approval, and Clinical NGS interpretation, reporting, and adoption. Velsera is headquartered in Boston, MA and is expanding teams across countries.

Senior Biocurator – Pune, India

Responsibilities

Technical/Scientific

• Comprehend (analyze, conclude) scientific content/clinical studies from different sources such as clinical practice guidelines, drug labels, clinical trials, research articles, reviews, case reports published in cancer and curate clinically significant data.
• Associate clinical/scientific evidences in a holistic manner to fulfil curation asks such as clinical inferences and write them as rules.
• Demonstrate clear understanding of the product and end‑to‑end workflow for the given KB team.
• Screening, curation strategies (all complexity), review (if trained as reviewer).
• Explain how the rule engine works and how predicates are written.
• Explain how curated data is used downstream and how it impacts patient care.
• Contribute to designing workflow for new curation strategy or extrapolate existing curation strategies to a similar new scenario.
• Contribute to designing SOPs and/or Work Instruction (WI) generation – ability to present and defend ideas in team or CCC meetings.
• Identify potential risks of process, project, or design, and report deviation from SOP or WI.
• Open to self‑training and exploring new technologies.

Communications

• Communicate issues within a team or across teams with clear background understanding to achieve outcome or conclusions.
• Initiate or engage in clear communication (Slack, email and verbal) regarding any blockers/issues with team members, follow‑up and conclude.
• Develop documentation, PowerPoint presentations, flowcharts, diagrams, etc. to communicate technical solutions.

Operational

• Follow/execute daily/weekly tasks till completion based on SOP with ownership and responsibility.
• Self‑QC of work – demonstrate a high standard with each deliverable.
• Commit to delivery of day‑to‑day tasks and projects involved as per the project timelines – with little supervision from a senior team member or team lead.
• Demonstrate clear alignment with the team’s release plan.
• Document content‑related approach in a scientific and methodical manner.
• Handle different types of complexities in the workflow.

Training

• Design, document and execute existing or revised training workflows and conduct training as per SOP/WI.
• Demonstrate niche expertise where you are the go‑to person for specific activities, training, etc.
• Stay up‑to‑date on product and process trainings required to create quality deliverables at each phase of product life‑cycle.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC and QMS processes defined at organization level to meet quality goals.
• Demonstrate strong adherence to Pierian core values.

Qualifications

• PhD in genetics, genomics, molecular biology with 1+ years of postdoc or work experience OR Masters degree in molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology or biochemistry with 4+ years of work experience.
• 4–7 years of experience with genetic and molecular understanding of the human disease.
• Good understanding of genomic databases and their annotations (for example: GenBank, RefSeq, dbSNP, etc.).
• Basic understanding of cancer biology and signaling pathways.
• Desirable: understanding of bioinformatics analysis to identify variants within genomic data sets.
• Proficiency in communicating and understanding genetic variant details.
• Enthusiastic "can‑do" mentality with leadership skills, a dedicated team‑worker, and good verbal and written communication skills.
• Previous experience as an experimental scientist in applied science or hands‑on experience in oncogenomic diagnostic laboratories is a big plus.
• Experience with open‑source bioinformatics tools and publicly available variant databases is a plus.
• Personal initiative and ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills.

Velsera is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Velsera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, colour, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry.