Python Job: Bioinformatician

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.

The role of Bioinformatician within the operations team plays a crucial part and contributes to the day to day running of bioinformatics pipelines within Genomics England.

You will also be part of the wider Logistics team and be responsible for ensuring all cases run correctly within the Bioinformatics pipeline are returned on time to the NHS or research collaborators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the smooth operations of the pipelines and troubleshoot problems when they occur by overseeing the processes and intervening if processes are broken, need to be restarted or resubmitted.
• Liaise with the development squads to report any issues and design solutions.
• Proactive monitoring of audits and logs for the GMS systems
• Produce regular monthly reporting for NHSE (payments, performance, etc)
• Respond to data access requests for audit logs by GLHs as part of the running of the GLH
• Carry out their responsibilities in accordance with the various standards and accreditations achieved by Genomics England (ISO15189, IVDD)

Skills and Experience for success:

• Proven track record in programming using Python to run scripts on the command line and performs troubleshooting to fix code when errors occur
• Experience running of NGS analysis pipelines for large numbers of samples, proficient in Linux and basic command line skills.
• Collaborative from a developmental perspective in using tools such as Github/GitLab, Confluence and JIRA.
• Ability to successfully manage competing priorities and demanding timelines on a day to day basis when monitoring the pipeline

Educated to MSc level (or higher), in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, or a related scientific discipline.

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
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• 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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As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.

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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