Bioinformatics Operations Engineer; Hybrid

Bioinformatics Operations Engineer (Hybrid)

Category Medical, Scientific and R&D Location San Juan Capistrano, California Job function Research and Development Job family Scientist

Shift Night Employee type Regular Full-Time Work mode Hybrid

Pay Range: $ - $ / year

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. Successful candidates may be eligible to receive annual performance bonus compensation.

Benefits Information:

We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits and programs to support employees and their families in living healthy, happy lives. Our pay and benefit plans have been designed to promote employee health in all respects – physical, financial, and developmental. Depending on whether it is a part-time or full-time position, some of the benefits offered may include:

• Day 1 Medical, supplemental health, dental & vision for FT employees who work 30+ hours
• Best-in-class well-being programs
• Annual, no-cost health assessment program Blueprint for Wellness®
• Vacation and Health/Flex Time
• 6 Holidays plus 1 "MyDay" off
• Fin Fit financial coaching and services
• 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth IRA with company match up to 5% after 12 months of service
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Life and disability insurance, plus buy-up option
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Annual incentive plans
• Matching gifts program
• Education assistance through MyQuest for Education
• Career advancement opportunities
• and so much more!

Overview:
Complete oversight of BME operations for large, complex sites and/or multiple sites to ensure service program efficiency and to satisfy the equipment support needs of the company. The purpose of the BME Sr. Manager position is to develop, coordinate, and expand the BME program to ensure all aspects of service (internal and external) for lab instrumentation and general lab equipment satisfy quality and regulatory requirements and service needs for each lab, enabling operations to run efficiently and with quality.

The Bioinformatics Operations group supports, hones, and executes the processes defined by our Engineering and Lab Operations groups with emphasis on compliance and continuous improvement in a regulated CAP/CLIA environment. The team balances innovation, standards, and quality with practical application. This position is based in San Juan Capistrano, CA and may be on site or hybrid – working on site at least 2-3 days per week.

• Support production day-to-day operations, quickly pivoting to incidents and requests
• Monitor, execute, and improve sequence analysis workflows and automation
• Track, troubleshoot and mitigate issues in processing production samples to meet Turnaround Times (TAT) and SLAs
• Plan and develop solutions to recurring issues for incorporation into development
• Generate, wrangle, merge and analyze varied data sets
• Use RESTful APIs linked to LIMS, AWS job runners, and other systems for data processing and execution
• Design and perform validation, testing, and deployment of systems to standardize processes across Quest Diagnostics labs
• Design and perform analytical validation for new genomic testing products
• Write and maintain production documentation for compliance and supportability
• Produce charts and visualizations for dashboards and data-driven testing
• Support interface, integration, and testing projects
• Follow Software Development Life Cycle documentation procedures
• Collaborate with team members and support the group
• Accept input on solutions from colleagues and teams
• Availability for on-call support

The ideal candidate will have a history of using bioinformatic technical skills to deliver accurate and timely results.

Required:

• 5 years of experience using formal programming and scripting languages
• 5 years of experience on a Linux command-line to process, parse, and merge data
• 3 years of experience with web services and API communications (REST, SOAP, etc)
• 3 years of experience in a distributed cloud HPC environment
• Knowledge of genomics, next-generation sequencing, and bioinformatics including FASTQ, BAM, VCF
• Experience supporting production-grade software
• Experience with source control in development, testing, and production
• Experience communicating technical results and data
• Experience working with APIs to pull/query data

Preferred:

• Automated testing experience; CI/CD experience
• Knowledge of CAP documentation requirements or regulated environments
• Microsoft UI:
  Access, VBA, Macros
• Pipeline Workflow Manager:
  Nextflow
• CI/CD in Git Hub

Education:

• Required:
  
  B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related field.
• Preferred: MSc/PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics

Preferred Technical Training:

• Agile certification
• Nextflow training
• Cloud Computing
• Data Science

Equal Opportunity

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