Remote Lead Bioinformatician - Genomics

Placements24; Polokwane; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Professional development budget

Conference sponsorship

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Lead Bioinformatician to spearhead Genomics research in a fully remote setup. You will guide a team of bioinformaticians and computational biologists, developing cutting-edge strategies for large-scale genomic data analysis across projects in personalized medicine and disease research.

You will lead NC pipelines, mentor staff, and collaborate with clinicians and scientists to translate findings into impact, ensuring data quality and reproducibility in all analyses.

Qualifications

• PhD in bioinformatics or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years in bioinformatics with a genomics focus.
• Experience leading scientific teams and mentoring researchers.
• Proficiency in Python and R; shell scripting experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and application of bioinformatics pipelines for NGS data (WGS, WES, RNA-Seq).
• Manage and mentor a team of bioinformaticians; provide technical guidance.
• Collaborate with geneticists, biologists and clinicians to design genomic studies and interpret results.
• Develop and maintain data management systems and computational infrastructure for genomics data.
• Contribute to scientific strategy, grant writing and publication of findings.
• Ensure best practices for data analysis, QC and reproducibility.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentorship

Genomics analysis

Python

R

Shell scripting

Data quality & reproducibility

Education

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/Genomics/Computational Biology

Tools

GATK

Samtools

STAR

DESeq2

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Lead Bioinformatician to spearhead Genomics research in a fully remote setup. You will guide a team of bioinformaticians and computational biologists, developing cutting-edge strategies for large-scale genomic data analysis across projects in personalized medicine and disease research.

You will lead NC pipelines, mentor staff, and collaborate with clinicians and scientists to translate findings into impact, ensuring data quality and reproducibility in all analyses.