Job Type
Full-time
Description
NOTE: Position Contingent upon award of contract. This role is part of a pre-award candidate search for an upcoming federal government contract. Employment is contingent upon BeVera Solutions receiving the contract award, final Government approval, funding, and any applicable client or contract requirements.
Job Description Essential DutiesBeVera Solutions is seeking a highly experienced
Bioinformatician - Scientific Computing & Genomics to perform genomic data analysis and develop, execute, maintain, and troubleshoot reproducible bioinformatics workflows supporting CDC's Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD).
The position supports next-generation sequencing, microbial genomics, scientific scripting, workflow development, HPC and cloud computing, statistical analysis, and technical consultation for public-health laboratory and pathogen-analysis activities.
Bioinformatics & Genomic Analysis- Perform bioinformatics analysis of next-generation and other high-throughput sequencing data.
- Support genome sequencing, assembly, annotation, microbial genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, phylogenetics, and related analyses.
- Conduct statistical analyses and scientific data-quality reviews.
- Process and analyze complex genomic and other biological datasets.
Workflow Development & Scientific Programming- Develop, execute, modify, test, document, and maintain reproducible bioinformatics workflows.
- Develop and support workflows using Nextflow and related workflow-management technologies.
- Create scientific scripts and analytical tools using Python, R, Perl, Java, BioPerl, or similar languages.
- Optimize pipelines for computational efficiency, storage utilization, scalability, and reproducibility.
HPC, Cloud & Software Environment Support- Adapt bioinformatics workflows and algorithms to HPC and cloud-computing environments.
- Support implementation, configuration, testing, and validation of open-source, commercial, and custom bioinformatics software.
- Assist with containerized bioinformatics applications and scientific-computing environments.
- Maintain and update reference datasets, databases, software environments, and analytical resources.
- Troubleshoot workflow failures, software dependencies, data-format compatibility issues, analytical errors, and computational-resource problems.
Quality Assurance, Validation & Documentation- Participate in software testing, quality-control, validation, and user-acceptance activities.
- Document analytical methods, workflows, software configurations, results, and technical procedures.
- Contribute to technical reports, scientific presentations, manuscripts, methods documentation, and other program products as needed.
Scientific Consultation & User Support- Provide bioinformatics technical consultation and user support appropriate to level of experience.
- Assist scientists and technical users in understanding bioinformatics tools, analyses, workflows, and results.
Collaboration, Training & Leadership- Collaborate with bioinformaticians, scientists, system administrators, DevOps personnel, infrastructure teams, data-management personnel, and other technical staff.
- Participate in technical training, knowledge-sharing, and continuous professional development.
- Senior-level incumbents may mentor less-experienced bioinformatics personnel and lead complex analytical assignments.
Requirements
Required Qualifications- Demonstrated education, training, or professional experience related to bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, biological sciences, computer science, data science, or a closely related field.
- Knowledge of bioinformatics methods and genomic or sequencing-data analysis.
- Experience or demonstrated proficiency with scientific scripting or statistical programming.
- Ability to work with large and complex scientific datasets.
- Ability to document analytical methods and technical procedures.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary scientific and technical teams.
Preferred QualificationsExperience supporting public-health, infectious-disease, laboratory-science, HHS, CDC, or other federal scientific programs is also preferred.
Programming & Scientific Computing- Python
- R
- Perl
- Java/BioPerl
- Linux
- High-performance computing (HPC)
- Cloud-computing environments
Bioinformatics Workflows & Development- Nextflow
- nf-core/ph-core or similar workflow standards
- Bioinformatics workflow optimization
- Containers/Singularity or similar technologies
- Scientific software testing and validation
Genomics & Sequence Analysis- Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and high-throughput sequencing
- Genome assembly
- Functional annotation
- Microbial genomics
- Metagenomics
- Phylogenetic analysis
Data Analysis & Public Health- Statistical analysis
- Epidemiologic or public-health data
