Scientist II, Bioinformatics

We are looking to recruit a talented bioinformatician to join our growing bioinformatics team. As a bioinformatic scientist, you will apply your expertise in programming, data science, and pipeline development across a wide range of projects to support and accelerate Insmed Innovation UKs drug discovery and development programmes.

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities

• Be a contributor in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, designing and maintaining critical bioinformatic tools and pipelines.
• Provide analytical and statistical rigour to empower better decision making during experimental design.
• Act as a subject expert, working with scientists and project leads to leverage existing bioinformatic resources to facilitate data driven science.
• Promote data integrity by employing current Insmed best practices for data handling and storage, to empower broadscale analyses.
• Liaise with internal and external collaborators.

Qualifications and other requirements
Required:

• A post-graduate degree (or equivalent experience) in bioinformatics, biology, genetics, medicine, machine learning, statistics, computer science or a similar area
• A keen interest in bioinformatics or computational biology and a passion for developing flexible solutions to complex problems.
• Experience working with and analysing NGS data
• Confident coding in python and using common third-party python libraries (numpy, scipy, pandas, ...etc).
• Experience presenting findings to non-experts
• A good understanding of statistics and their application across a range of data types.
• Experience with git version control, preferably with familiarity of branching and merging

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