Bioinformatician II

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At Exact Sciences, we’re 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, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others.

The Bioinformatician II will work on multiple projects analyzing biomedical data by applying existing tools and informatics resources. This role will be responsible for maintaining, testing, optimizing, and customizing existing bioinformatic pipelines for NGS data and data tracking and delivery to customers. In addition, implementing and testing novel analysis approaches, developing professional-quality reusable software and informatics resources for medium to large scale bioinformatics projects, and leveraging prior experience and domain knowledge to improve existing methods to expedite and facilitate the data analysis and knowledge discovery process.

Previous experience in high-volume NGS exome and RNA production workflows is a plus.

This position is onsite at our Madison or Phoenix location, with a Tuesday to Saturday work schedule.

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Implement, test, maintain, customize available/known informatics resources and scientific software/data sources in multiple programming languages/platforms for research support. Develop front ends for other analysis tools, visualize/compile results, facilitate generally defined routine data processing/migration/organization/management tasks, and build project-specific workflows implementing automated analysis steps.
• Investigate, customize, prototype new bioinformatics resources and scientific software for biomedical data processing. Requires skills in multiple programming languages, databases, computational methods, scientific computing, large-scale data analysis, and heterogeneous biomedical data from multiple sources. Use software engineering skills towards creating reusable, modular, tested, version-controlled, shared repository oriented, professional-quality informatics, software, and database resources.
• Design, prototype, evaluate innovative computational algorithms, data analysis, and statistical methods for biomedical data processing, interpretation, and knowledge mining of data, computational algorithms, databases, scientific computing, large-scale data analysis. Suggest or explore alternative/multiple data processing approaches.
• Follow scientific literature and manuscripts, investigate new biomedical data processing methods, trends, technologies, and paradigms relevant to biomedical informatics, provide feedback towards scientific findings and contribute towards manuscripts, grants, research proposals, and research planning. Attend, contribute to, and present at internal and external scientific meetings and conferences.
• Manage multiple bioinformatics collaborations and projects, mentor junior staff. Strategic planning, organization, management, utilization, and optimization of existing and future bioinformatics resources, skills, and needs. Interact with PIs, researchers, and other bioinformaticians to align and guide bioinformatics activities to maximize the organization’s competitive advantage in biomedical research. Interact with other research divisions, computing infrastructure staff, and outside academic and industrial partners.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong desire to interact with researchers carrying out cutting-edge biomedical research.
• 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.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to work a designated schedule.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 95% of a typical working day.
• Ability…