Bioinformatician - Remote

29 after tax + other paid benefits
~30 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays
~ Annual salary review
~ Private medical insurance for you and your immediate family (including all prescriptions and generous dental & optical cover)
~ Death benefit, long-term care, accident at work and unemployment insurances
~ Relocation package including installation grant (if required)
~ Extensive sports and social club activities (run on campus and remotely)
~ Onsite nursery, child sick leave, generous parental leave, holiday clubs on campus and monthly family and child allowances
~ Visa exemption, education grant for private schooling, financial support to travel back to your home country every second year and a monthly non-resident allowance

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Bioinformatician to work in the Genetic Data Platform group that is delivering EMBL-EBI’s role in the AMP-T2D Knowledge Portal and the INTERVENE project, addressing human genetic variation data in common diseases and using this data for the calculation of polygenic risk scores.
The AMP-T2D Knowledge Portal aims to make T2D-relevant genetic association data more easily accessible. The portal draws genetic associations and functional genomic data from a federated database with nodes at the Broad Institute Data Coordinating Center (DCC), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), and the University of California San Diego (UCSD). It provides access to these data through application programmatic interfaces (APIs) and a web-portal with visualizations built by the Broad and the University of Michigan (UM). The network of scientists who contribute data or methods to the portal is managed through protocols developed by the DCC. 20,000 users worldwide and contains data from
The INTERVENE consortium is a 5-year EU funded project that aims to develop and test next generation tools for disease prevention, diagnosis and personalised treatment utilizing the first US-European pool of genomic and health data and integrating longitudinal and disease-relevant -omics data into genetic risk scores. INTERVENE will build a new European platform that will allow researchers and clinicians to easily calculate genetic scores with the goal to enable a wide adoption of genetic risk scores as a gold standard in clinical research. The successful applicant will work in a group of Bioinformaticians and Software Developers to deliver EMBL-EBI's contributions to these projects. A postgraduate degree in the life sciences or similar, or equivalent industry experience
Experience acquiring and analysing complex disease human genetic and phenotypic data from arrays, WES and/or WGS, preferably in a bioinformatics
service or research environment in academia or industry.
Experience of using a computer scripting language (e.g. python, Perl etc.)
Experience in contributing to complex projects across a team or a number of partners
Excellent written and verbal English language skills
Good organisational skills, the ability to prioritise different tasks and to manage a heavy workload for collaborative projects
Experience of interacting with relational databases to extract reporting information
We operate an agile software development environment, therefore experience of agile software delivery is preferred
Experience with ML/AI techniques and data preparation to enable these analyses
This position is project-limited for an initial 3 year duration (or until end 2025).
To apply please submit a covering letter and CV through our online system.
At EMBL-EBI, we strongly believe that inclusive and diverse teams benefit from higher levels of innovation and creative thought. We encourage applications from women, LGBTQ and individuals from all nationalities. Visa exemptions will be offered tointernational candidates and details will be discussed during interview. We believe in science without borders and thiscontinues after Brexit .
This role is based inHinxton, UK and you will be required to relocate once it is safe to do so if you are currently based abroad or not within commuting distance. EMBL-EBI is a worldwide leader in bioinformatics. We encourage personal and professional development and are committed to ensuring our employees feel valued, supported and empowered to reach their potential at work.
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