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Genomics Bioinformatician (Fixed Term)

Do you have great computational, analytical and organisational skills? Interested in a role which is contributing to changing lives for the better? Looking for your next challenge?

We are recruiting a Genomics Bioinformatician who has formal bioinformatics and programming experience or training. You will need to be familiar with statistical analysis and data visualisation techniques and have the ability to manage and organise the priorities of a small team to succeed in this role.

The post holder will manage a small sub team in charge of fulfilling data requests, by providing genomic data and/or defining cohorts based on genomic profiles. NIHR BioResource aims to substantially increase the number of research studies it supports, by adopting new tools and opening this position. The data sets are currently hosted at the University's Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery (CSD3) but will soon be migrated to the public cloud (AWS) and integrated in a commercial bioinformatics platform that includes a variant database and a Secure Desktop Environment (SDE) for data sharing. The post holder is also expected to contribute when needed to other activities of the Bioinformatics team.

Find out more about this role on the Cambridge Jobs website.

Closing date:  17 November 2026

Data Scientist NIHR BioResource (Fixed Term)

Do you have great skills and experience organizing and managing data? Interested in a role contributing to improve lives? Looking for your next challenge?

We are recruiting a Data Scientist to provide data to researchers in academia and industry, through cohort discovery by mining phenotypic and genomic data, and to manage metadata assets of the NIHR BioResource projects under the guidance of the line manager.

To succeed in this role, you will need to be experienced in the manipulation of big and/or genomics data, the analysis and integration of different data types and the use of meta-data standards and vocabularies.

You will be responsible for:

• Linking of omics data (especially genomics) and biomedical, demographic, and phenotypic data that form a major part of NIHR BioResource data assets to enable participant selection for proposed research studies
• Contribute to more complex linkage experiments, e.g. where omics data is joined to sample holdings and rich clinical phenotype
• Prepare datasets for recall-based research studies identifying potential volunteers
• Prepare de-identified datasets for release to researchers
• Discussions with researchers re expected standards on data protection, anonymisation and security

Find out more about this role on the Cambridge Jobs website.

Closing date: 18 November 2026

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