Job Overview
Senior Scientist - Bioinformatician (Data Analysis) - full time permanent - South Mimms, Hertfordshire. Hybrid working: at least 8 days/month onsite, up to 12 days depending on business needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead design, development and delivery of scalable NGS bioinformatics pipelines (Nextflow, Python, R).
- Manage cloud based bioinformatics infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform) ensuring reproducibility, governance and MHRA quality systems compliance.
- Perform quality control, statistical analysis and biological interpretation of multi modality NGS data in collaboration with cross functional teams.
- Mentor junior bioinformaticians, contribute to publications, grant proposals and integrate emerging technologies.
Required Qualifications
- MSc or equivalent in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or related discipline.
- Extensive experience delivering large scale bioinformatics analysis using cloud computing environments.
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, R, Nextflow and containerisation (Docker, Singularity, GitHub).
- Strong project management skills and ability to communicate complex genomic data to diverse audiences.
Preferred Experience
- Hands on pipeline development for genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, microbiome profiling and single cell analysis.
- Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Unix/Linux environments.
- Previous leadership of analytical components in multi stakeholder projects.
Assessment Method
A=Application, T=Test, I=Interview, P=Presentation - assessment will follow Civil Service Success Profiles.
Contact and Application
Closing date: 9 February 2026. Applications open online. For questions, email .