Principal Scientist BioinformaticsComputational Biology

Client : One of the leading Indiabased contract research organisations offering a suite of integrated endtoend discovery development and manufacturing services for novel molecular entities across industrial sectors including pharmaceutical biotechnology agrochemicals consumer health animal health cosmetic and nutrition companies.

Job Purpose
The incumbent will leverage a deep understanding of computational biology approaches and combine
bioinformatics multiomics analyses data analytics for life sciences and healthcare applications.

Key Responsibilities:
Deliver bioinformatics applications and integrative solutions to complex problems in pharma and other
domains
Perform multiomics data processing assembly analysis reporting and integrative analysis to answer
biological questions inform clinically meaningful insights
Work with bioinformaticians data scientists and software engineers to scale and strengthen computational
approaches from the R&D lab through to deployment as highthroughput reproducible workflows
Execute protein bioinformatics tasks including sequence database searches preparing research literature
summaries protein and nucleotide sequence alignments and phylogenetic analysis.
Monitor projects milestones and deliverables to ensure completion on time and within specification

Educational Qualification:
PhD or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Computational Genomics or related
discipline

Technical/functional Skills:
Proven track record of developing solutions that combine omics molecular biology statistics and
bioinformatics algorithms.
Experience in statistical analysis and bioinformatics methods/tools/databases
Outstanding command of statistics quantitative data analysis and complex data visualization
Experience in analyzing multiple biological data modalities including genomics epigenomics proteomics
transcriptomics metagenomics
Working knowledge of content analysis methods and applications used in therapeutic discovery
preclinical research translational medicine and clinical science domains
Knowledge of systems modeling approaches

Experience:
7 years of relevant work experience

Behavioral Skills:
Resultsoriented individual who thrives in collaborative multidisciplinary teams
Excellent management skills including the ability to set goals define priorities manage individual /
team performance organize people and activities to achieve goals
Project/Team leadership experience with ability to communicate with customers and internal
stakeholders
Proven ability to mentor and develop a team providing coaching opportunities to develop skills
constructive and timely feedback on performance/progress toward goals/expectations