Bioinformatics Engineer

Bioinformatics Engineers are software engineers with extensive experience in bioinformatics and are responsible for developing and maintaining software tools and datasets used to solve a wide variety of bioinformatic needs. They are also responsible for the high quality and robustness of such tools, following best practices during software design, development, and testing. As a Bioinformatics Engineer at Genomics England, you will also be required to follow and contribute to agile practices, as well as to act as a subject-matter expert for bioinformatics. You will be supporting the continuous improvement of our practices, collaborating, and adhering to engineering standards. Everyday responsibilities include:

• Produce automated tests to validate existing and new code.
• Contribute to all testing and deployment stages up to the production environment.
• Produce high-quality code for high throughput sequencing data analysis, genome analysis, workflows and interpretation.
• Interact with domain experts during the lifecycle of projects to ensure the scientific validity of software products.
• Contribute to discovery tasks during the initial phase of new developments and achieve understanding of early-stage decisions to inform final software design.
• Write documentation to achieve an exhaustive log of decisions, designs, tests, results etc. that enable full traceability of processes.
• Be a proactive member of a squad, adopting agile practices and offering subject matter expertise.
  
  Experience in software testing strategies.
• Solid Python coding skillset.
• Solid skillset in Bioinformatics, understanding of the standards, data sources and tool chains used in NGS.
• Proficient in Linux and containerisation techniques (Docker, Singularity).
• Proficient in software version control systems (Git preferred).
• Proficient in collaborative software development practices (code reviews, branching strategies).
• Excellent technical writing skills.
• Experience in building scientific workflows with Nextflow is desirable.
• Solid expertise of developing production quality algorithms and software to analyse large data sets is desirable.
• Familiarity with NGS tertiary annotation tools and databases is desirable.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in a git repository / version control system (GitLab preferred) is desirable.