Biomedical Informatician, Genomics

Flatiron Health; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

401(k) contribution

Parental benefits and policies

Job summary

Flatiron Health is seeking a biomedical informatician specializing in clinical genomics to join our Health Informatics team and advance genomic data processing for Oncology products. You will design, build, and grow our genomic data platform to receive, normalize, and manage laboratory results across platforms, while upholding data integrity.

You will collaborate with engineers, clinicians, and product teams to encode data for interoperability, apply genomics standards, and drive data model

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in bioinformatics or related field.
• Strong experience with genomic standards and formats (VCF, HGVS, HGNC).
• Experience communicating complex genomic information to non-scientists.
• Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and grow our clinical genomic data platform.
• Normalize and manage genetic test results from labs.
• Promote best practices across Flatiron Health's Health Informatics products.
• Drive the development of data models powering oncology products.
• Encode healthcare data to ensure interoperability.

Skills

Genomic data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Data modeling

Clinical informatics

Education

Master's or PhD in bioinformatics/biomedical informatics or related

Tools

SQL

Cloud data warehouse

FHIR/HL7 interoper

Job description

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.

We’re looking for a biomedical informatician specializing in clinical genomics to join our Health Informatics team and help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

What You’ll Do

In this role, you'll be responsible for helping design, build, and grow our clinical genomic data platform to receive, normalize, and manage genetic and genomic test results from different laboratories. You will sit on the Health Informatics (HI) team. The HI team serves to promote and enable consistent informatics best practices across Flatiron Health products. This role specifically will serve on Flatiron’s Precision Medicine team to build and improve genomic data processing. Your contributions will prioritize retention of genomic data integrity while enabling many use cases across Flatiron’s clinical products (OncoEMR, Flatiron Assist, etc.). In addition, you will:

• Enable scientifically sound use of genomic data in new and existing use cases through deep knowledge of the data, effective information gathering, clear documentation, and relevant data investigations.
• Enable efficient, accurate, and impactful collection of genomic data through innovative use of technology, effective collaboration, and clear processes
• Facilitate the integration of logical data models into complex EHR workflows through collaboration with a diverse and interdisciplinary team of engineers, clinicians, product managers, and designers.
• Drive the development of logical data models that power Flatiron’s suite of Community Oncology facing products
• Utilize industry best practices to encode healthcare data to ensure interoperability of data elements

Who You Are

You are a biomedical informatician with a deep understanding of genomic data and logical data modeling. You have a scientific background (such as biology, genetics, or molecular biology) with robust technical skills. You are able to drive progress in a rapidly evolving field, and contribute to the adoption and development of best practices for creating and maintaining high-quality and high-integrity data. You are driven by curiosity and have a passion for advancing the impact of clinical genomics to make the right data available at the right time. You are a kind and collaborative individual. In addition:

• You have an advanced degree (Masters, PhD preferred) in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, molecular biology or a related field.
• You have strong experience with genomic standards, file formats, and nomenclature (HGNC, HGVS, file formats - vcf, gvcf, bed)
• You have familiarity with clinical oncology genomic profiling tests, the testing process, and the result data and information generated.
• You have experience working cross-functionally and communicating complex genomic information to non-scientific stakeholders.
• You have SQL or cloud data warehouse experience.

Extra Credit

• You have experience collaborating with molecular profiling labs
• You have demonstrated experience with a coding language (Python, R, etc)
• You can identify the utility of genomic information in clinical use cases and articulate the data elements required to support them (i.e. clinical decision support)
• You possess a strong background in oncology data and use of genomic data in the context of oncology
• You are familiar with standard medical terminologies (SNOMED, ICD-10, LOINC)
• You have participated in industry genomic and informatics groups (GA4GH/VICC, HL7, etc.), and the evolution of interoperability standards within genomics
• You have familiarity with utilizing interoperability standards (including FHIR, HL7 v2 and v3) and understand their utility/potential utility in genomic data exchange
• You have experience working with clinical next-generation sequencing data and CAP/CLIA compliant workflows

Where You’ll Work

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.

Life at Flatiron

At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:

• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive compensation package
• 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
• Mental well-being tools and services
• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
• Travel support for safe healthcare services

In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.