RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively contribute to the Technical Development group efforts to create Standard Operation Procedures and perform on-demand analyses.
• Mentor and guide Bioinformatics Consultants in the unit. Monitor their progress and insure quality of results delivered.
• Use and develop analysis pipelines using in-house and third party tools or algorithms, and incorporate them into specialized analysis workflows.
• Develop bioinformatics solutions for the analysis of complex genomic datasets.
• Update and extend bioinformatics tools and software methods used or developed at the C3G.
• Provide detailed reports with analysis results and descriptions of methods used.
• Contribute to problem-solving discussions.
• Provide regular internal reports regarding the progress of projects (oral presentations).
• Keep online documentation up-to-date, explaining the services offered and the analysis methods used.
• Stay informed of the most relevant bioinformatics practices in genomics.
• Lecture in bioinformatics training workshops organized by the center.
• Manage several analysis projects at the same time.

REQUIREMENTS

• MSc in Bioinformatics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field (PhD is preferred).
• Three (3) years of experience in bioinformatics or genomics research.
• Excellent understanding of statistics is a must.
• Experience with Python is a requirement.
• Experience with data analysis in the research context is a plus.
• Good knowledge of R, git, and bash is needed.
• Additional programming experience (perl and java) is an asset.
• Experience in using HPC environment.
• Experience with Docker or VM environment for analysis is an asset.
• Experience lecturing in training workshops is desirable.
• Very good communication skills in English, spoken and written. French is an asset.

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