Bioinformatics Scientist - Barcelona, España - AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

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Barcelona, España

hace 3 semanas

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Isabel García

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Bioinformatics Scientist

Short role description
Do you have expertise in and passion for bioinformatics? Would you like to play a pivotal role that impacts the delivery of novel biologics drugs for oncology, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be for you

We are looking for a Bioinformatics Scientist to join our translational Bioinformatics team.

Typical accountabilities

Contribute to the development of an endtoend data analysis capability as part of a crossfunctional team
Work collaboratively with data and drug discovery scientists to establish analytics workflows for biologics discovery
Support testing and verification of data management analyses and tools and pipelines in collaboration with AZ stakeholders
Demonstrate effective communication to translate complex concepts to nonexperts in internal and external scientific meetings
Contribute ideas and provide creative input to projects across multiple disease areas including respiratory, immunology, cardiovascular, renal, metabolism and neuroscience.
Remain at the cutting edge of bioinformatics.

Essential

PhD in bioinformatics or related field and 3+ years relevant experience
Experience in using and analysing illumina NGS data
Experience with Python
Ability to explore novel bioinformatic approaches to improve sensitivity and specificity of NGS based workflows.
Strong, professional communication skills and excellent attention to detail, capable of developing good working relationships with diverse individuals
Experience working within a team environment
Takes ownership of tasks and has a can do attitude

Desirable

Experience in illumina workflows, in particular the primary analysis around going from raw images to fastq files
Experience with R, bash or Rust programming languages
Experience with Kubernetes cluster and associated software e.g. kubeflow
Firsthand experience in the analysis and interpretation of large, complex datasets.
Experience with create production quality code and software engineering techniques and practices. e.g. version control, Jira, Agile, Scrum, code reviews etc.
Familiarity with multiple R&D data types, especially as they relate to therapeutic area research.
Capability of successfully managing multiple simultaneous projects