Bioinformatician II Cancer Center

Advocate Health•Winston-Salem, NC

6d•$36 - $53•Onsite

About The Position

The Bioinformatician II provides bioinformatics support to faculty and staff in biostatistics and bioinformatics and collaborates with cancer center investigators on quantitatively oriented studies. The role helps advance research through innovative data handling, analysis, processing pipelines, and visualization methods involving genomics, proteomics, imaging, and related data. The position designs and develops bioinformatics analysis and visualization software, web applications, and computational algorithms for biomedical studies. It performs accurate and timely analyses of high-throughput data, maintains and documents shared computational tools, web pages, and datasets, and assists with relational databases for data and analysis results. Advanced analyses are performed under the supervision of faculty and senior biostatisticians and bioinformaticians. The work is performed in a clean, well-lit, comfortable office setting.

Requirements

Master’s degree in bioinformatics, mathematics, biomathematics, computer science, engineering, or a related scientific discipline; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree with three years of experience in statistics.
Experience in software development and database development.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Familiarity with resources and tools relevant to research in genomics, proteomics, imaging, bioinformatics, and related disciplines.
Understanding of the fundamentals of modern biology and bioinformatics.
Experience in computer programming, including Java, Perl, or C/C++, and database programming.
Knowledge of statistics and experience conducting statistical analysis.
Experience with bioinformatics tools and public databases.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in bioinformatics, mathematics, biomathematics, computer science, engineering, or a related scientific discipline is strongly preferred.
Experience with programming in Python and R.
Knowledge of cancer biology.
Basic knowledge in one or more of the following: data visualization software; web application development for data-intensive problems; web services development and deployment; performance tuning or high-performance applications; or bioinformatics software development.
Familiarity with computational methods such as classical statistical methods, machine learning, vector support analysis, neural networks, and regression trees.

Responsibilities

Provide bioinformatics support for faculty and staff in biostatistics and bioinformatics.
Collaborate with cancer center investigators and assist in developing genomics, proteomics, imaging, and other quantitatively oriented studies using data handling, analysis, processing pipelines, and visualization methods.
Design and develop bioinformatics analysis and visualization software tools and web applications.
Develop and apply computational algorithms to biomedical studies using genomic, proteomic, expression, imaging, and related data.
Perform timely and accurate bioinformatics analysis to aid researchers in high-throughput data analysis.
Maintain, support, and document shared tools, web pages, and datasets for computational analysis.
Assist in developing and maintaining relational databases for storing data and analysis results.
Work with researchers to define and implement bioinformatics analysis tools.
Assist in advanced analyses under the supervision of faculty and senior biostatisticians and bioinformaticians.
Perform other related duties incidental to the work described.