Clinical Genomics Bioinformatician (2-Year Contract)

The University of Auckland; Auckland; On-site; NZD 111,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development programmes

5 weeks annual leave

Superannuation

Discounted car parking

Parental leave allowance

Childcare

Job summary

The University of Auckland is seeking a Bioinformatician on a 24-month fixed-term contract to partner with stakeholders across the Precision Medicine Initiative. The role focuses on clinical and research genomics, delivering reproducible analytical workflows and interpreting sequencing data.

You will work on accredited pipelines, quality assurance, and may contribute to variant curation and materials for multidisciplinary meetings, including molecular tumour boards.

Qualifications

• Strong core bioinformatics skills and understanding of molecular biology or clinical genomics.
• Ability to design and interpret genomic data and run reproducible workflows.
• Experience with data manipulation using Python, R, Stata or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and deliver accredited clinical pipelines.
• QA and interpretation of sequencing data for research and clinical delivery.
• Contribute to variant curation and preparation of material for clinical multidisciplinary meetings.

Skills

Bioinformatics

Genomics

Python

R

Tools

Stata

Job description

The University of Auckland is seeking a Bioinformatician on a 24-month fixed-term contract to partner with stakeholders across the Precision Medicine Initiative. The role focuses on clinical and research genomics, delivering reproducible analytical workflows and interpreting sequencing data.

You will work on accredited pipelines, quality assurance, and may contribute to variant curation and materials for multidisciplinary meetings, including molecular tumour boards.