Job ID:
Job date: 2018-06-19
End Date: 2018-08-18
Company : University of Chicago Country : United States Role : Other
Job date: 2018-06-19
End Date: 2018-08-18
Company : University of Chicago Country : United States Role : Other
Job Description:
As a Senior Bioinformatician, you will use strong scientific knowledge and programming skills to design and implement bioinformatics services for research projects at the Biological Sciences Division. You will be focused on hands-on technical activities for a wide range of high-throughput genomics technologies, including the applications of Next Generation Sequencing, spanning pipeline development, optimization, operations, and support. Responsibilities:
Additional Info:
Required Documents: -Cover Letter -Resume -Writing sample (preferred) -Research Statement (preferred) > NOTE: When applying, all required documents MUST be uploaded under the Resume/CV section of the application. Benefit Eligibility: Yes Pay Frequency: Monthly Pay Range: Depends on Qualification Scheduled Weekly Hours: 37.5 Union: Non-Union Job is Exempt? Yes Drug Test Required? No Does this position require incumbent to operate a vehicle on the job? No Health Screen Required? No Posting Date: 2018-06-18-07:00 Remove from Posting On or Before: 2018-12-18-08:00[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
As a Senior Bioinformatician, you will use strong scientific knowledge and programming skills to design and implement bioinformatics services for research projects at the Biological Sciences Division. You will be focused on hands-on technical activities for a wide range of high-throughput genomics technologies, including the applications of Next Generation Sequencing, spanning pipeline development, optimization, operations, and support. Responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing methodologies and tools as needed, keeping abreast of industry trends and new technologies, and recommending potential solutions based on the latest technical developments.
- You will use the community best practices, to prototype, develop, execute, test and roll out production level Bioinformatics analysis pipelines.
- Analyze data of high complexity by applying sound statistical and commonly accepted bioinformatics methods on collaborative projects.
- Lead projects as the primary bioinformatics resource to ensure they are managed in a timely and efficient and efficient manner, appropriately documented, and provide follow up support services after initial project completion.
- Revise or modify procedures to solve complex problems and work at a high technical level in all phases of data management and bioinformatics support activities.
- Work on a team of Bioinformaticians, and frequently interact with the BSD Faculty.
- You will also engage with the bioinformatics community at large on pipeline development and have opportunities to collaborate with internationally recognized leaders in genomics and biomedical informatics.
- Participate in the writing and delivery of presentations; grant proposal sections, and manuscript sections.
- Basic knowledge of molecular biology
- Basic knowledge of statistics
- Advanced knowledge in bioinformatics
- Ability to train others
- Knowledge of regulatory policies and procedures
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Knowledge of HIPAA policies preferred
Additional Requirements
Education and Experience:
Education: Doctoral degree in Bioinformatics, the Biological Sciences, Computer Science, or a related field required. Experience:- Two (2) or more years of experience in the field of bioinformatics
- Two (2) or more years of experience programming in at least three (3) of the following languages: Python, Java, SQL, XML, Perl, and R
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency in analysis pipeline development of high- throughput data
- Hands-on experience with next generation sequencing technologies such as BWA, Novoalign, STAR, GATK, samtools, Picard, and other tools
- Experience and a working understanding of algorithms, data structures, and scientific programming
- Experience working on Linux and/or Unix systems
- Experience working on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience in the development, optimization, automation, and operations support of analysis pipelines for high-dimensional data including whole-genome, whole- exome, and RNA sequencing data preferred
- Experience in employing high performance computing to solve parallelizable compute problems preferred
- Experience providing bioinformatics services or other service roles preferred.
- Experience with project management preferred
- Experience with genomic datasets such as TCGA, TARGET, CGCI, MMRF, and ICGC preferred
- Experience with version control, such as git, preferred
- Experience with both molecular and clinical data preferred
- Experience mentoring early career bioinformaticians preferred
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- HPC
- Lunix/Unix
- molecular biology
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in Java
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
- RNA-seq
- SQL
- Statistics
- Version Control
Areas :
Additional Info:
Required Documents: -Cover Letter -Resume -Writing sample (preferred) -Research Statement (preferred) > NOTE: When applying, all required documents MUST be uploaded under the Resume/CV section of the application. Benefit Eligibility: Yes Pay Frequency: Monthly Pay Range: Depends on Qualification Scheduled Weekly Hours: 37.5 Union: Non-Union Job is Exempt? Yes Drug Test Required? No Does this position require incumbent to operate a vehicle on the job? No Health Screen Required? No Posting Date: 2018-06-18-07:00 Remove from Posting On or Before: 2018-12-18-08:00[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]