Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, development, enhancement of bioinformatics tools and solutions.
• Bring knowledge of best practices to contribute to robust bioinformatics development processes.
• Work with the software development team in translating prototyped analytics pipelines to production-grade and cloud scalable solutions.
• Leverage skills in software architecture and development to resolve complex bioinformatics and infrastructure issues.
• Prototype end-to-end analysis pipelines using existing tools/algorithms or develop novel tools/algorithms as needed.
• Build evaluation frameworks and defining key metrics to benchmark and measure performance.
• Maintain and advance knowledge and skills across bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and cloud technologies.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in the bioinformatics and genomics space and credibly represent Microsoft at global industry events, conferences, symposiums, etc.
• Write technical documents, blog posts, publish in top journals or conferences

Qualifications

• Master's (7 years’ experience) or Ph.D. (4 years’ experience) in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a related discipline.
• Deep experience with bioinformatics tools and algorithm development.
• Demonstrated experience working with genomics / -omics data in an academic, clinical, or industrial setting.
• Experience collaborating on pipelines with external user groups (both bioinformaticians and non-bioinformaticians).
• Proficiency with one or more scripting language (Python, R) and programming language (Java, C family, Scala).
• Experience with bioinformatics workflow languages such as WDL and CWL.
• Familiarity with data science and machine learning technologies.
• Understanding of enterprise systems, high-performance computing, and cloud technologies as it relates to genomics workloads and pipelines.
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and blockers with creative problem-solving, and following through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Track record of producing high-quality work, being self-directed, and having timely execution.
• Keen awareness and ability to stay abreast of technical and scientific trends.
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next customer, and the challenge of improving healthcare across the world.

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