Bioinformatics Scientist, AstraZeneca

Job description
Bioinformatics Scientist 

We are looking for a bioinformatics scientist to support the genome analytics and informatics needs of the Centre for Genomics Research (CGR). You will join the Data Operations Team and contribute with your bioinformatics expertise to the CGR’s multidisciplinary research environment comprising of computational biologists, genome scientists, software engineers, statistical geneticists, postdoctoral researchers, disease area specialists and clinician experts.

This is a consulting assignment with Randstad Life Sciences. Randstad Life Sciences is specialized in competences within Life Science. As a consultant with us, you get a competitive salary, benefits and collective agreements. Your consultant manager is always there for you and ensures that you get varying and developing assignments at different companies, within different industries. At Randstad Life Sciences, your personal development is in focus, and you are offered a large network and many social activities.

Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
running data processing pipelines and workflows; troubleshooting potential issues with the data, metadata or tools
designing and benchmarking bioinformatics workflows and pipelines for genomics and other OMICs
writing data processing scripts integrating multiple bioinformatics tools
ensuring that our data is managed in line with the standards and guidelines, including managing data transfers between systems and organisations; managing metadata; performing data QC and a wide range of data integration activities
providing expert advice in the domain of bioinformatics to colleagues and collaborators; helping with challenges related to bioinformatics software, data structures and formats and biological data repositories
working hands-on with industry leading technologies as our informatics capabilities are fully cloud-based and were designed to handle the analysis of large-scale data aiming to reach up to 2 million genomes by 2026.


Qualifications
Experience required:
hands-on knowledge of genomics community algorithms and solutions
experience with standard bioinformatics tools and data formats and standards
good hands-on history programming with Java, Python, R and/or Linux shell scripting
experience working in cloud environments, for example with AWS services


About the company
About randstad life sciences
Randstad Life Sciences is specialized in competencies within Life Science. As a consultant with us, you get a competitive salary, benefits, and collective agreements. Your consultant manager is always there for you and ensures that you get varying and developing assignments at different companies, within different industries. At Randstad Life Sciences, your personal development is in focus, and you are offered a large network and many activities.

For more information: Please contact Jimmy Wadie, jimmy.wadie@randstad.se