Clinical Bioinformatics Specialist Oxford, England
Job description
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.
This exciting and challenging role will work within the Customer Analysis Workflows group specialising in clinical bioinformatics to maintain a coherent set of analysis software tools for clinical end users of ONT's sequencing platforms through OND with a particular focus on the planning, development, testing, documentation, and deployment of analysis code for clinical applications!
Key ResponsibilitiesYou will be driven to provide scientific analysis software suitable for deployment in a clinical diagnostic environment.
You will be responsible for developing and packaging software libraries which can be utilised across modes of presentation from standalone libraries and command line tools, to integrated graphical solutions. As part of the role, you will ensure all documentation is in place for these solutions to ensure that they meet ISO/IEC standards.
Duties- Take prototype workflow concepts to clinical analysis workflows meeting ISO/IEC standards
- Define and promote best-practices for ONT's clinical analysis software
- Liaise with colleagues within R&D groups within ONT and OND to bring prototype workflows to a clinical product
- Advise on best practice clinical bioinformatics analysis in the areas of cancer, rare, and infectious disease
- Liaise with external partners to facilitate deployment of third part analysis solutions
- Maintain knowledge of external advances in the field of long-read data analysis and the requirements of end-users as determined by various ONT's customer facing staff
- Take ownership of newly identified workflows and work with others within the group to determine how best to present these to end users
- Consolidate disparate codebases into reusable unified components
- Maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) of analysis tools and workflows, enlisting and leveraging the assistance of others
What we expect you to have...
An Msc (or equiv experience) involving programming in high-level language.
Multiple years experience in software development practices in a clinical setting and knowledge of ISO accreditation. Along with familiarity in long-read sequencing data analysis and experience building scientific data analysis pipelines!
We are looking for someone who has an appreciation of agile software development methodologies and the ability to learn independently to use new software tools and systems.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.
Looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind? Then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Oxford Nanopore's goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA. The technology is used in more than 100 countries to understand the biology of humans and diseases, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and whole environments.
Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and now employs around 650 employees around the world.
