Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

At Exact Sciences are helping change how the world prevents, detects, and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose‑driven career in an inclusive culture and robust benefits that support your life while you’re working to help others.

The Senior Bioinformatics Engineer contributes to the development and support of both on‑market products and new product development. The role participates independently and has opportunities to lead project teams in designing, delivering, and supporting technology platforms. Working in a team setting, the engineer will contribute to the design and implementation of new software solutions to process and interpret next‑generation sequencing (NGS) and other assay data for cancer diagnostics.

This high‑impact role involves producing software to orchestrate and execute analysis workflows, building bioinformatics and analytical tools that operate on scientific data, building cloud‑based solutions ready for production, and providing strategic and operational excellence. The incumbent will support development of timelines and plans for new assignments and provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior Bioinformatics engineers.

• Collaboration and Communication:

  • Collaborate with platform owners and end‑users to gather requirements and priorities for continuous software delivery and value creation.
  • Lead project technical decisions, systems development and timely delivery.
  • Communicate status updates, progress reports and error messages to the wet lab team and upper management ensuring transparency and accountability.
  • Coordinate production runtime operation and support of cloud‑based platforms.
  • Work closely with remote technical teams and collaborate effectively.
  • Proactively manage project deadlines and drive results with a focus on quality.

• Technical Expertise and Innovation:

  • Act as subject‑matter expert in core or cross‑functional meetings.
  • Write test plans and user‑acceptance‑testing cases for quality assurance.
  • Develop, optimize and maintain real‑time data visualizations.
  • Implement statistical algorithms in collaboration with biostatisticians.
  • Design and implement data storage solutions for experimental data and analysis results.
  • Contribute to building and maintaining cloud infrastructure for data‑analysis pipelines.
  • Develop automation solutions for software operations including bioinformatics pipelines and report generation.
  • Contribute to the development of software tools supporting bioinformatics workflow operations.
  • Design and implement web‑server application infrastructure as needed.
  • Explore innovative methods to optimize data sharing and processing efficiency.

• Team Collaboration and Mentorship:

  • Participate actively in cross‑functional teams driving collaborative projects within time and budget constraints.
  • Mentor junior team members in technical and functional areas.
  • Share expertise by creating and maintaining resources for the team.
  • Contribute to the overall strategic technology roadmap.

• Standards and Compliance:

  • Build design and coding standards for consistency across applications.
  • Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality and teamwork.
  • Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
  • Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
  • Act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality and teamwork.
• Display a strong sense of intellectual curiosity.
• Exercise discretion and independent judgement within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining and interpreting results; analyzing data and presenting findings in a professional and knowledgeable manner.
• Demonstrate excellent critical thinking, analytical problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities.
• Demonstrate excellent team‑working skills with ability to complete collaborative projects on time with a strong attention to detail.
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