location_onCambridge, UK
watch_later Posted: Jul 18, 2024
Skills Required
Nice To Have skills
Job 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
- Bioinformatics Engineers are software engineers with extensive experience in bioinformatics.
- They are responsible for developing and maintaining software tools and datasets used to solve a wide variety of bioinformatic needs. They are also responsible for the high quality and robustness of such tools, following best practices during software design, development, and testing.
- As a Bioinformatics Engineer at Genomics England, you will also be required to follow and contribute to agile practices, as well as to act as a subject-matter expert for bioinformatics. You will be supporting the continuous improvement of our practices, collaborating, and adhering to engineering standards.
Everyday responsibilities include:
- Produce high-quality code for high throughput sequencing data analysis, genome analysis and interpretation.
- Produce automated tests to validate existing and new code.
- Contribute to all testing and deployment stages up to the production environment.
- Interact with domain experts during the lifecycle of projects to ensure the scientific and clinical validity of software products.
- Contribute to discovery tasks during the initial phase of new developments and achieve understanding of early-stage decisions to inform final software design.
- Write documentation to achieve an exhaustive log of decisions, designs, tests, results etc. that enable full traceability of processes.
- Be a proactive member of a squad, adopting agile practices and offering subject matter expertise.
- Ensure adherence to the various standards and accreditations required for both clinical laboratory practice and software delivery.
Skills and Experience for Success:
- Excellent Python coding skillset.
- Experience in software testing strategies or desire to learn this skillset.
- Solid skillset in Bioinformatics, understanding of the standards, data sources and tool chains used in NGS and clinical genomics.
- Proficient in software version control systems (Git preferred).
- Proficient in collaborative software development practices (code reviews, branching strategies).
- Familiarity with NGS tertiary annotation tools and databases.
- Proficient in Linux and containerisation techniques (Docker, Singularity).
- Solid expertise of developing production quality algorithms and software to analyse large data sets.
- Excellent technical writing skills.
- Experience working in agile environments is desirable.
- Experience in building code using CI/CD is desirable.
Qualifications
MSc equivalent or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Bioinformatics or equivalent experience.
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