Director Of Bioinformatics

Job ID: 337003571
Job date: 2017-05-08
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Company : Progenity Inc 

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Job Description:
The Director of Bioinformatics is responsible for overseeing the design, development and maintenance of innovative, high-performance and robust bioinformatics workflows for Progenity products. As well as, overseeing bioinformatics operations, including quality control and retrospective analyses of clinical data. Providing technical leadership and guidance to a multidisciplinary team of bioinformatics scientists, data scientists and software engineers. The Director of Bioinformatics is also responsible for building out and managing a geographically distributed bioinformatics team with the diverse skills needed to develop and deliver industry-leading diagnostic products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

-Directs the development, operationalization and maintenance of high-performance data analysis pipelines

-Directs bioinformatics support for commercially available molecular diagnostics at Progenity

-Provides analytical support to aid in decision making in the development of new products

-Manages staff including recruiting, performance management, training, and development

-Develops and implements vision for the evolution of the bioinformatics team to support research and development, pre-clinical, and clinical data analysis needs

-Guides Progenity management on future directions for bioinformatics of relevance to the organization

Position Requirements:

Education:

PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or related field

Work Experience:

-10+ years of relevant work experience with at least 5 years in a biotechnology setting

-3+ years of management experience

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

-Proficient in current approaches to software development, integration, testing and deployment

-Proficient in biological sequence data analysis

-Experience with Laboratory Developed Tests

-Knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning methods

-Knowledge of high-performance computing and cloud-computing

-Strong oral and written communication skills

-Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a wide range of tasks


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Additional Info:
Progenity helps patients and their families Prepare for Life, with medically relevant health information starting before conception, through pregnancy, childhood, and adulthood. Using our highly-complex molecular diagnostic testing, healthcare providers can access the most advanced genomic technology to guide patient care at critical life stages.

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