Bioinformatician - Research Services - London, United Kingdom - Genomics England

Genomics England

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics.

We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments - with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

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

We are accelerating our impact and 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.

Job Description:

Our team of Bioinformaticians provide high calibre bioinformatics research support to external researchers and industrial partners by enabling analysis, facilitating access to datasets and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Data Centre.

The research support team is also responsible for the stewardship of genomic data and its effective flow through products into the various research products.

The role includes elements of a bioinformatician and data analyst, ensuring that our users have an excellent customer experience.

In this role, you'll be a superuser of our datasets and our research environment, advocating both internally and externally, while working with researchers from academia and industry to ensure their scientific projects are successful.

You will support our users in working with our data and contribute to data generation, intake and extraction through airlocks.

You will also develop templates and documentation on accessing data and running analyses in the environment, and carry out custom analyses on demand.

Everyday responsibilities include:

Extensive handson experience in analysis of largescale genomic data using bioinformatics tools and pipelines.
Competence in R, Python or similar language appropriate for largescale genomics analysis.
Experience with working in the cloud and familiarity with the services and benefits it brings.
Demonstrable experience in using next generation sequencing data.

Skills and Experience for Success

Strong background in human disease genetics, preferably in cancer or rare disease, demonstrated by publication record or industry track record.
Experience writing pipelines in WDL or Nextflow
Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds (e.g. management, IT, R&D, biology, bioinformatics) and a clear understanding of clinical and phenotypic data management and the sensitivities surrounding patient cohort data which is highly advantageous.
You'll have excellent interpersonal skills, keeping track of customer relationships, providing high calibre troubleshooting, identifying unmet customer needs and suggesting solutions to improve material.

Qualifications:

Educated to MSc level (or higher), in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, or a related scientific discipline.

Additional Information

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
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
Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

LI-Hybrid

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. For some people this is 1 day a quarter, for others it is several days a week. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to.

The exception would be some of our roles that would 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 at the moment are Cambridge and Farringdon (London) and in January 2023 we are relocating our London office location to Canary Wharf.

We will also be expanding our regional offices.

Looking ahead to our move to Canary Wharf, we will be designing our new space with blended working in