Senior Bioinformatician, Omics, Oncology Data

hace 1 semana


Barcelona, Barcelona, España AstraZeneca A tiempo completo
At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality.

If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person.


The Oncology Data Science - Data, Analytics, and AI Platforms (ODSP) team comprises multiple groups across the Cambridge UK, Boston MA, Gaithersburg MD, and Munich DE sites.

ODSP develops technology, software, and data infrastructure to advance our Oncology data science. Our vision is to evolve data science into a driver of innovation within Oncology.

We do this by creating a strategic culture that values our data as a true business asset, organizing our data so that it's accessible and easy to find, integrated, and re-usable for Humans & AI, and building the best computational tools to support scientific decision making.


Major Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Manage, analyse, and deliver high throughput Multiomics (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Epigenomics etc) data
  • Develop, test, and support data analysis tools and pipelines
  • Build new data extraction, transformation and loading processes
  • Ensure accurate automation of data analysis
  • Build scalable (Cloud and HPC) solutions that work on tens of thousands of CPUs
  • Validate the quality of the datasets using various tools to assess the correctness of the results
  • Assist with developing requirements for internal software development
  • Build and maintain high level of experience with team's software and IT technologies.
  • Work collaboratively with scientists and outside collaborators to cultivate, process, and analyse genomic information
  • Develop and maintain an in depth understanding of the scientific and technological domains supported by the team
  • Build and steer further development of small prototype tools for bench scientists to access and visualize genomic data.
  • Finally, you will collaborate with industry and academia, and exploit external resources, to find the most effective solutions to oncology data science problems

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Relevant PhD (or equivalent graduate degree plus proven applied experience) combining:
  • Technical expertise in Genomics Sequencing (Tissue DNA & circulating tumour DNA)
  • Minimum of 2 years of applied experience
  • Proven programming skills, Python or R preferred.
  • Skilled in effective communication of complex data to a nonexpert audience.
  • Experience in software development standard methodologies
  • Experience in Unix, SQL databases, and REST APIs
  • Cloud computing (preferably AWS), and High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Desirable Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of databases of clinical interpretation of cancer variants.
  • Proficiency analysing and interpreting data from multiple 'omic platforms (NGS sequencing, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics etc.).
  • Well networked within external bioinformatics and NGS communities.
  • An understanding of the contribution of bioinformatics to drug discovery.
  • Awareness of machine learning, graph modelling, Bayesian analytics or other nontraditional approaches to model biological data.

Why AstraZeneca?


At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big.

Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential.

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be.

This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering groundbreaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what's next


Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours.

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