Associate Director, Bioinformatics

NeoGenomics; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NeoGenomics seeks an Associate Director of Bioinformatics to lead a team in the development and maintenance of NGS product software. The role involves collaboration with R&D teams, managing bioinformatics workflows, and requires expertise in data analysis, software development, and cancer genomics.

Benefits

401k match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Tuition reimbursement

16 days paid time off

Leadership development

Wellness courses

Qualifications

• Master’s degree plus seven years related technical experience.
• Experience managing data analysis projects and teams.
• Extensive experience working in a UNIX environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of bioinformatics scientists and developers.
• Lead bioinformatics development for pharma projects.
• Work with wet lab scientists for analytical verification.

Skills

Next Generation Sequencing data analysis

Scientific programming (R, Python, C/C++)

Data analysis projects leadership

Biopharma Programs and clinical trial data analysis

Unix/Linux command line

Education

Master’s degree in bioinformatics, computer science, or computational genomics

Tools

AWS

Job description

Are you motivated to participate in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment? Do you want to join a company that invests in its employees? Are you seeking a position where you can use your skills while continuing to be challenged and learn? Then we encourage you to dive deeper into this opportunity.

We believe in career development and empowering our employees. Not only do we provide career coaches internally, but we offer many training opportunities to expand your knowledge base! We have highly competitive benefits with a variety of HMO and PPO options. We have company 401k match along with an Employee Stock Purchase Program. We have tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and even start employees off with 16 days of paid time off plus holidays. We offer wellness courses and have highly engaged employee resource groups. Come join the Neo team and be part of our amazing World Class Culture!

NeoGenomics is looking for an Associate Director, Bioinformatics who wants to continue to learn to allow our company to grow. This is a full time, benefits eligible remote position.

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Position Summary:

As an Associate Director, Bioinformatics you are responsible for managing a team of bioinformatics scientists and developers focusing on the development and long-term maintenance of NGS product software. Their team’s responsibility will span the full product lifecycle, from early post-feasibility build-out of prototype software to ongoing improvement and support of established workflows. As such, they will interact closely with other R&D teams, including the wet lab, to refine algorithms developed by the R&D Innovation Team, as well as other teams across the organization (e.g. Operations) to ensure product software meets expected standards. This role will require a solid working knowledge of NGS data analysis techniques, preferably with a strong background in cancer genomics, as well as product-oriented software development and optimization.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work together with wet lab R&D scientists to devise experimental set up for analytical verification and validation activities
• Take over prototype software developed by the R&D Innovation Unit and build it into production-ready workflows, including refinement of core algorithms, computational scalability, and robust QC measures
• Regularly review data from commercial and/or research sequencing runs to identify opportunities for improvement to our algorithms and QC processes
• Summarize and present experimental results to both scientific and non-scientific stakeholders
• Act as subject matter expert for NeoGenomics’ bioinformatics workflows
• Lead bioinformatics development for bespoke pharma projects and clinical studies as required

Requirements:

• Master’s degree plus seven years related technical experience, in bioinformatics, computer science, computational genomics, or a related field
• Experience with leading data analysis projects & teams required
• Experience with Biopharma Programs and clinical trail data analysis.
• Experience with Heme and solid tumor panels.
• Extensive experience with next generation sequence data analysis
• Extensive experience working in a UNIX environment and with the command line (e.g. bash scripting)
• Scientific programming experience (e.g. R, Python, C/C++; Python preferred)
• Experience with developing workflows in a cloud environment (e.g. AWS)
• Prior experience with work in a regulated environment for software and quality assurance, such as ISO 13485, IEC 62304:2006, ISO 15189, or strong motivation to learn and work within such frameworks.