Understand complex research problems and design and implement bioinformatics solutions working across multiple stakeholders and customers.
Job Responsibilities:
- Understand complex research problems and design and implement bioinformatics solutions working across multiple stakeholders and customers
- Drive impactful data analysis of high-throughput data generated for clinical diagnosis
- Run industry standard pipelines, algorithms, and tools to analyze NGS platforms; drives improvements to existing bioinformatics tools
- Play an active role in managing bioinformatics analysis and report delivery for clinical and research samples, supported by well-defined SOP’s
- Hands-on bioinformatics problem solving on regular basis
- Play the role of a trainer and mentor to junior team members
Desired Experience & Qualification:
- Master’s/PhD degree from reputed institute in the area of computer-science/informatics/Computational Genomics/Computation Biology/Bioinformatics
- Sufficient knowledge of genomics and basics of molecular biology
- Hands on experience in Next-Generation sequencing data analysis
- Good knowledge of programming languages for data analysis and tool development such as Perl, Php, Python, R, Java, Html, SQL, C++
- Experience in statistical analysis and bioinformatics methods/tools/databases
- Sound analytical knowledge
- Publications and/or other recognitions
- 5-8 years of industry/academics research lab experience
- Have a passion for building teams. Effective as a people manager
You will also be expected to have:
- Excellent communication, written and presentation skills
- “Roll-up-your-sleeves” entrepreneurial, start-up attitude
- The ability to work across teams and functions effectively