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Job type full-time
Full job description
Job overview:
Covance by labcorp is recruiting a bioinformatics scientist ii to support cloud workflow developmentThis position may be fully remoteAnalyses range from early stage exploratory to full cap/clia validated clinical studiesPrimary duties will include:
Transfer existing ngs workflows from on-premise resources to cloud based platforms.
Develop new workflows for ngs analyses directly on cloud resources as new assays are brought online.
Work with scientists, genomics lab staff, project management, it, and qa to understand analysis needs and gather pipeline requirements.
Write validation documents for analysis workflows.
Perform validation activities for analysis workflows following internal slc procedures.
Develop and write analysis sops.
Education/qualifications:
Education:
Phd in bioinformatics, biology, or related field
Competencies:
Able to function in a fast-paced, high throughput environment.
Demonstrated organizational and communication skills.
Strong interpersonal and team work skills are essential.
Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new programming environments for pipeline development.
Ability to prioritize workload to effectively handle several projects at any given time.
Quickly and competently train on and perform new and updated protocols.
With little supervision, understand and perform specific tasks that need to be completed on a daily basisOrganize and lead meetings with participants across different departments in order to present data and/or recommendations for specific goals.
Experience:
Required:
Five+ years of bioinformatics experience working on ngs assays, with a focus on pipeline development.
Five+ years of scientific programming using python or r.
Full comfort working in a unix-based environmentBash or other scripting skills is essential.
Desired:
Experience with deploying bioinformatics solutions to cloud environment such as dnanexus, aws, and basespace.
Experience with docker and cwl/wdl.
Familiarity with working under regulatory systems such as gxp and cap/clia.
Familiarity with sql to enable programmatic interactions with lims systems.
