Bioinformatician Data Engineer

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Life Sciences organisation, based in Utrecht Netherlands.

The Company

The company provides an AI platform mainly used by pre-clinical researchers for in-silico discovery & validation of targets and biomarkers. World leading pharma, biotech and academic institutions use it to accelerate multi omics research in all major disease areas.
By integrating over 200 different public databases, the platform provides the largest single environment in which the latest multi omics data is interlinked to literature, experimental and clinical evidence.

Role Description

Would you like to get involved at the forefront of applying AI & big data technology in life sciences research and work with the leading pharma, biotech and research institutions worldwide? If you are a bioinformatician with a passion for data analysis, please read on!
Due to the fast growth of the company, we are looking for a skilled Bioinformatician / Data Engineer to join our platform team. The role is primarily focused at processing and integrating all types of multi-omics data to be used in the Euretos AI platform for biological research projects. The role is mainly internally oriented but the candidate will often contribute as a team member to our contract research activities.

Responsibilities

- Proactively contribute to the definition and realisation of the company long term data strategy and roadmap
- Manage the timely delivery of the internal ‘data roadmap’ for all new data that needs to be integrated into the company AI Platform
- Provide the required data, from either public or proprietary sources, for customer specific research projects in a timely fashion and of sufficient quality
- Monitor and maintain the accuracy and quality of the existing data integrated in the company AI Platform
- Undertake specific activities such as machine learning and text mining projects

Requirements

- Education: University or HBO degree in bioinformatics or medical informatics with a major background in biology or Biology or life sciences University or HBO degree with a major background in data analytics
- Work experience as a bioinformatician in life sciences research, pharmacology or drug development
- Demonstrable experience and understanding of multi omics data such as gene and RNA expression (natural as well as differential, flow cytometric frequency, protein abundance, genome wide SNP frequencies etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to build processes that support data transformation, data structures and metadata generation
- Strong statistical capabilities and proven experience using statistical packages such as R or SPSS.
- Experience working with and extracting value from large datasets
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to project manage and work with cross-functional teams

Other information

- Self propelled – take initiative to bring things forward
- Hands-on mentality
- Team player
- Experience with processing and interpretation of biological, biochemical and experimental data
- Affinity with structured analysis, data and workflow modeling
- Attention to detail
- Very strong English language skills

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Thomas Aelen.