Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics

Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics

• Cambridgeshire based

• Highly competitive salary and attractive benefits package

We are currently working with an industry Leader in serious and rare diseases who are looking for a Senior Scientist Bioinformatics to join a growing team to support research from early stage to lead optimisation and candidate selection.

This is truly a fantastic role that will give you the opportunity to make an impact at work and contribute to patient health.

Key Accountabilities;

Contribute and lead efforts to develop tools, build analytical pipelines, perform in-depth data analysis and data modelling to support the wider science team

Work collaboratively with a range of multidisciplinary teams including human geneticists, platform developers and data scientists

Be a confident programmer with a broad range of experience in the fields of bioinformatics or data science

Work across multiple project areas

Lead projects independently presenting project updates to key decision makers

Experience required:

PhD (or equivalent experience) in bioinformatics, biology, genetics, medicine, machine learning, statistics, computer science or a similar area.

Experience coding collaboratively and using git as part of a larger collaborative project.

Experience delivering production quality python code.

Experience working with and analysing NGS data.

Experience with a python testing framework (e.g. pytest, unittest, etc.)

An in-depth understanding of statistics and their application across a range of data types.

If this roles sounds of interest please apply direct, send your CV to or call for a further conversation