Lead Bioinformatician - London, United Kingdom - Genomics England

Genomics England

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London, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Description

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 Lead Bioinformatician is an experienced bioinformatician with strong competencies in genomic data analysis and research support.

Through proactive collaborations and agile practices, the Lead position brings technical leadership and people management capacity within the chapter and across different squads/teams.

Based on a solid understanding of Bioinformatics and challenges in large-scale whole genome analysis, as well as in building and using high-quality genomic data and analytical workflows, the Lead position directly contributes to the development of solutions and products that address the needs of our external and internal stakeholders

Everyday responsibilities include:

Manage, supervise and coach/mentor direct reports and participate in hiring strategy across the chapter and the directorate.
Develop datasets and workflows for highthroughput genome analysis and interpretation and lead code and workflow reviews.
Lead complex custom genomic analyses, both as an individual contributor and by providing technical leadership
Stay at the cutting edge of bioinformatics and genomic research.
Ensure that implemented solutions enable leading genomic research within our Research Environments across different user segments (from expert bioinformaticians to clinical researchers).

Skills and Experience for Success

Significant experience working in a research or technical field, including genomics and bioinformatics.
Strong leadership and/or managerial skills with a proven track record in coaching/mentoring direct reports
Highly proficient in at least R or Python, command line interface, and experience in wdl or nextflow workflow languages
Track record of building research data products or state of the art analytical workflows for processing large scale WGS data
Familiarity with genetic analyses involving complex loci (e.g. HLA), complex variants (SVs/CNVs), and relevant methods and tools
Experience with largescale data platforms used in genomics research

Qualifications:

PhD. degree or equivalent practical experience in academic or commercial settings.

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.

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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 are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

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