Senior Bioinformatics Analyst

Location: Upper East Side • 35 hours/week • Exempt

About the role

Leads the development, testing and maintenance of analytical pipelines used to support genomic testing based on whole exome sequencing and other tests.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for biostatistical analysis and data interpretation for large data sets.
• Performs genomic analyses including mutation analyses, integrates datasets and generates figures summarizing results and key findings.
• Implements pipelines for detecting and annotating mutations from single patient, whole-exome sequencing datasets.
• Implements primary processing pipeline and quality control; runs pipeline(s) on all new samples.
• Implements procedures for disaster recovery and resuming failed jobs.
• Works closely with bioinformatics team(s) to define specifications for information systems, relational datasets, and sequencing analysis.
• Develops novel algorithms and tools for high throughput data analysis.
• Explores new computing platforms, performs benchmarking and implements data sharing.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering or computer science; MS or PhD in systems biology, bioinformatics or computer biology is highly desired.
• Approximately 3 years of related experience.
• Bioinformatics analysis expertise as demonstrated by multiple published papers.
• Excellent programming expertise in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java or Python.
• Experience in biology and/or cancer biology is preferred.
• Experience working in an academic environment is highly desired.
• Previous experience designing and building bioinformatics workflows preferred.
• Previous experience analyzing and summarizing genomic datasets preferred.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent understanding of biology and biomedicine.
• Ability to work with limited supervision.

Pay

$104,000 – $120,900 per year