Data Engineer

2 days ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom The Bridge Ltd Full time
  • Role – Bioinformatics Data Engineer
  • Scope – Outside IR35
  • Start - ASAP
  • Notice – 1 week to both sides
  • Location – Remote (UK)
  • Duration – initially for 6 months
  • Rate – circa £600pd

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Bioinformatics Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will significantly impact the delivery of bioinformatics data engineering and visualizations to the Oncology R&D organisation. Your work will be central to advancing our data stack, as well as our automation and observability capabilities.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Develop, execute, and maintain ETL pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading data for use in cBio and other bioinformatics analysis and visualizations
  • Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of ETL pipelines and data systems
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data loading and integration into downstream systems
  • Collaborate with bioinformaticians, data scientists and other stakeholders to understand and meet the data needs and requirements of the organization
  • Stay up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in bioinformatics data engineering

Essential Requirements

  • A background in Computer Science, Engineering, or Bioinformatics (Master level) with 5 years of relevant experience
  • Familiar with bioinformatics visualizations in different omics domains including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, DNA methylation, etc
  • Extensive experience with Python and Python data/scientific libraries like pandas, numpy/scipy, polars, etc
  • Proven experience with bioinformatics visualization systems like cBioPortal, including data loading and troubleshooting
  • Strong understanding of ETL processes and data pipeline development
  • Ability to interact with various data sources, both structured and unstructured (e.g. HDFS, SQL, noSQL)
  • Experience working across multiple scientific compute environments to create data workflows and pipelines (e.g. HPC, cloud, Unix/Linux systems)

Desirable:

  • Experience with deploying data pipelines using orchestration services like Airflow, Prefect, AWS Glue, Dagster, etc
  • Experience using AWS services such as S3/EBS, EC2, CloudWatch, SNS, and Lambda.
  • Understanding of software development, testing and quality processes with experience with testing frameworks and documentation
  • Expertise with biological/health data, especially genomics and other *omics technologies.
  • Ability to understand, map, integrate, and document complex data relationship and business rules.

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