Bioinformatics Specialist AstraZeneca biological
sciences, biological engineering, bioinformatics or a pharmaceutical scientific
discipline or similar field
Key Responsibilities
● Work
closely within the team and with scientific colleagues across AstraZeneca
genomics units to ensure informatics and advanced analytics solutions meet the
ongoing needs of all scientists.
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Develop informatics solutions, e.g., using pipelining approaches, scripting
and algorithm development.
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Contribute to Genomics drug projects with downstream analysis and data
analytics.
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Understand and seek opportunities to apply artificial intelligence &
machine learning to the world of biology informatics.
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Research external peers, academics and software providers to apply the
latest methods to relevant business problems.
● Work
closely with data scientists, machine learning, engineering and platform teams
to utilize the latest algorithms to deliver scientific insights to drug project
teams.
● Work
with informatics colleagues in our Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Chennai to
deliver high quality informatics solutions.
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Promote AstraZeneca’s informatics and data science reputation through
external publications and presentations.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
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Masters/PhD in biological sciences, biological engineering,
bioinformatics or a pharmaceutical scientific discipline or similar field, with
a demonstrable record of informatics delivery in a pharmaceutical/biotech
setting.
● Strong
coding and software engineering skills such as Python, R, Scripting.
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Experience working with relevant tools and databases such as NCBI,
PubMED, UCSC genome databrowswer, bedtools, samtools, Picard and visualization
tools such as Spotfire.
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Experience working with high performance clusters such as HPC or SCP.
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Knowledge of cloud environment and related technologies.
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Excellent communication skills and facilitation skills, ability to work
with others to achieve objectives.
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Ability to explain complex methods and techniques to a non-technical
audience.
● Good
communication, written and verbal skills, proficient English.
In addition, we expect the candidate to:
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Exhibit influencing and innovation skills
Other
The role will have no direct line reports, but task
management responsibilities within project or services may occur
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