Bioinformatics Analyst Jobs

Job Title: GWDI Application Developer

Location: Mississauga,ON L5N 5M8

Duration: 12 Months

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Description:

Project

The Genomic Workflows and Data Infrastructure Team (GWDI) enables scientists and researchers within Client:

• To order and to manage the orders of samples,
• To run and manage workflows/pipelines with analysis,
• To visualize genomics data, related to genomic sequencing projects, Clinical trials, Internal and External studies.
• To quickly find and access various data types,

Project Responsibilities

• Ability to ask targeted questions to diagnose problems
• Help create technical documentation and manuals
• Problem-solving attitude along with the ability to give clear technical guidance.
• Troubleshoot bioinformatics workflow failures
• Report customer feedback and potential product requests
• Guide users with simple, step-by-step instructions
• Resolve workflows/tools and technical questions for the customer quickly and effectively
• Direct unresolved issues to the next level of support
• Follow up with clients to ensure their systems are functional
• Address user tickets regarding biological resource sets and bioinformatics pipelines

Education

• 2-3 years of experience required with minimum of a Bachelors/Master’s Degree in bioinformatics, computer science, biology or related fields.

Required skills

• Good understanding of biological concepts and an interest to learn more.
• Experience in analyzing whole exome / genome sequencing data.
• Experience working with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
• Proven customer service skills.
• Good data science practices and understanding of data complexity.
• Experience with analysis of high throughput data such as NGS data.
• Experience with working in Linux-based servers.
• Excellent communication, advanced English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
• Familiarity with issue tracking tools (JIRA)
• Good debugging skills
• Experience in working with workflow management system