Lead Policy Engineer - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Energy Jobline CVL

Description

Genomics Englandpartners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We areaccelerating our impactand working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Our Lead Bioinformatics Engineeris an experienced bioinformatician with strongcompetenciesinsoftware engineering, data engineeringand/orinfrastructure.
This role is expected to provide technical expertise and leadership across multiple squads in the bioinformatics directorate.

In particular, this Lead role will play a key part in accelerating genomics research in Genomics England by leading the development of scalable bioinformatics pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure solutions.

Additionally, the successful candidate will lead the development of best practices across the chapter and directorate to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scientifically valid, production-ready code and contributes to their adoption across the company.

The post holder will be responsible for the recruitment, mentoring and line management of core and senior bioinformaticians across the Research Tribe.

Lead on design decisions for projects across the chapter.
Foster internal and external networks of collaborators to avoid duplication of efforts, bring innovation and promote knowledge sharing.
Bring innovative thinking in bioinformatics and software engineering across the chapter and directorate.
Proactively keeping up to date with the relevant areas of bioinformatics, genomics, software engineering and data engineering practices.
Experience in developing cloud infrastructure and have a good understanding of cloud services (AWS ).
Experience in creating and productionising data/bioinformatics pipelines using workflow orchestrators (Nextflow ) and container technologies.
Python), with a willingness to adapt and learn new as needed.
software engineering, organization, and adherence to these best practices.
MSc equivalent or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Bioinformatics or equivalent experience.

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we're continually improving our benefits package.

We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
30 days' holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
Life Assurance (3 x salary)
Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
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Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, and best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence.

We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any , , gender, gender identity, , , or social background.

Genomics England's policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of , , gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being or recently becoming a parent, , or beliefs, or , length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.

Such behaviour is contrary to , undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.

We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum.

There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum.

Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare #J-18808-Ljbffr