Analyst - Bioinformatics - Genome Diagnostics Firm

A leading genome diagnostics firm is seeking a bioinformatics analyst who can understand complex research problems and design and implement bioinformatics solutions working across multiple stakeholders and customers.

Responsibilities:

- 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 Computer science/Computational Genomics/Computation Biology/Bioinformatics 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