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Division: Biotechnology
Function: Bioinformatics
City: Durham
State/Province: North Carolina [NC]
Country: United States [US]
Position Title: Senior Team Lead – Genome Informatics
Job ID: 5036
Role Purpose/Accountabilities
Syngenta is one of the world’s leading companies with 28,000 employees in over 90 countries dedicated to one purpose: bringing plant potential to life. We contribute to addressing some of the planet’s most critical issues such as the rising demand for food from a growing population.
Working for Syngenta offers you the opportunity to play a part in addressing one of the most urgent challenges facing global agriculture today where we need to feed 200,000 more people every day.*
Come be part of our good growth plan: one planet, six commitments:
Make crops more efficient, rescue more farmland and help biodiversity flourish; empower smallholders, help people stay safe and look after each worker. * Our work matters.
There has never been a better time to join Syngenta!
Role Purpose
- Manage and lead a team of bioinformaticians responsible for enhancing and maintaining a set of tools and databases that enable scientists to integrate, explore and analyze genomics and related datasets
- Work closely with molecular biologists, geneticists and other researchers engaged in agricultural product discovery to understand their needs; design and implement approaches to meet their needs in an effective and cost-efficient manner, leveraging both internal and external resources and skills
- Provide scientists with expert knowledge on computational biology tools and how these can be used to address the answering of scientific questions
- Work to identify suitable external partners and external capabilities that can be incorporated into our set of bioinformatics capabilities and tools
- Contribute strongly to the design and selection of approaches for storing, organizing and working with rapidly increasing volumes of biological data
- Guide efforts to design and implement selected new bioinformatics analysis, annotation and integration capabilities
- Work to design and implement enhanced capabilities for integrating bioinformatics datasets with breeding datasets
- Provide leadership to, and participation in, key projects both within Bioinformatics and across multiple R&D functions
- Lead a team to provide effective computational tools, databases and capabilities to R&D projects in collaboration with researchers and bioinformaticians from diverse disciplines and across global sites
- As a member of the Bioinformatics Leadership Team, contribute to the development of our strategy for advancing our capabilities for data integration and for enhancing our ability to interpret complex, multi-dimensional data
- Contribute to the development, enhancement and evolution of the bioinformatics platform, a collection of tools and datasets that enable computational biology analyses
- Interface effectively with diverse stakeholders and team members to identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our delivery of capabilities and high quality analyses to our R&D clients
- Continually expand skill set by staying on top of key advances in bioinformatics, agricultural biotechnology and the application of biotechnology and genomics to agricultural product discovery and development.
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree, or a B.A. degree with equivalent experience, in Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Genetics or a related field
- Strong understanding of biotechnology research and product development
- Strong computational skills including knowledge of available bioinformatics tools, data sets and computational and data management strategies to solve genomics and genetics problems
- Demonstrated ability to work successfully within a global interdisciplinary team
- 10 years professional experience in bioinformatics or computational biology
- 5 years direct experience in software development, architecture, and information/data management
- 5 years management experience leading teams
- Excellent communication, organization and presentation skills
- Extensive understanding of bioinformatics and professional experience carrying out bioinformatics analyses to answer biological questions
- Deep understanding of HPC environments and common bioinformatics programing languages, scripting tools, and relational databases, including information and data management strategies
- Knowledge of the life sciences, particularly genomics and/or genetics
- Experience with agricultural biotechnology, marker development and plant genetics/genomics is highly desirable
- Experience in negotiating and budgeting time between competing cross-functional demands for resources is desirable
- Communicates with impact and gains commitment of individuals and stakeholders in a compelling way
- Is able to effectively motivate direct reports, ensuring quality of delivery is high
- Identifies and mitigates cross functional barriers to enable better collaboration
- Establishes and maintains a network of colleagues and utilizes this network to accomplish goals, build expertise and share information
- Involves many individuals in brainstorming sessions, shows good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work and suspends judgment until ideas are fully explained and vetted
- Listens carefully and gains trust and loyalty
- Scans the environment to look for needed change and anticipates need for change
- Establish enhanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with the convergence of biotechnology and traditional breeding
- High level of negotiation, motivational and influencing skills
- Establish productive working relationships with key scientific users and informatics professionals across a number of functional groups and sites within a matrix organization.
- All applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
- Travel, including internationally, required for this position. Up to 10% per year.
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genetics
- HPC
- LIMS
- Lunix/Unix
- Modeling
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Plant Genomics
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in R
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