Bioinformatics Engineer
Ellison Institute of Technology2 months ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage bioinformatics data and pipeline infrastructure, including versioning, deployment, and compatibility across compute environments.
- Design and develop scalable Nextflow pipelines for omics data, either directly or by guiding others.
- Design production-grade ETL processes to integrate data into the Bioinformatics platform.
- Implement pipeline performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and resource optimization processes.
- Document pipelines, infrastructure, and workflows to support reproducibility and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with bioinformaticians, data analysts, systems administrators, biologists, and data scientists to align technical solutions with research needs.
Requirements
- BSc or MSc in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or a related field, with proven experience in a compute platform environment.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines in a research or scientific environment.
- Strong programming and scripting skills with experience writing production-quality, well-documented code.
- Experience processing large, complex datasets such as genomic, transcriptomic, or phenotyping data.
- Understanding of bioinformatics file formats, tools, and databases, including FASTQ, BAM/VCF, BLAST, and reference genomes.
- Experience with workflow management systems such as Nextflow or Snakemake.
- Experience designing data integration and ETL processes.
- Understanding of relational and/or non-relational databases for biological data.
- Awareness of data and pipeline engineering standards and willingness to advocate for best practices.
- Desirable qualifications include Seqera/Nextflow Tower, biological data modelling, FAIR data principles, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, plant sciences or agriculture, and mentoring experience.
Benefits
- Salary is dependent on experience and includes a travel allowance and bonus.
- Enhanced holiday, with options to buy additional days.
- Pension, life assurance, income protection, private medical insurance, hospital cash plan, therapy services, Perk Box, electric car scheme, and childcare benefit.
- On-site role in or near Oxford, with willingness to relocate if necessary.
- Applicants must have permanent UK work authorization; sponsorship may be considered case by case, and travel may be required.
Tech Stack
KubernetesOracle Cloud
Categories
Data Engineering