Job Description:

Talentmark are recruiting for a Senior Bioinformatician to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on a contract basis for 12 months. This role is hybid with 2/3 days on site in Bracknell and the rest home working. 

Company:
Our client is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. They focus on finding answers for some of the world's most urgent medical needs.

Salary:
£36.84 to £49.13 ph 
Rates are dependent upon experience.

Senior Bioinformatician Role:

• Analyse large-scale single-cell, bulk transcriptomics and other omics datasets.
• Develop new computational methods that extract biological insight from them.
• Build scalable, well-tested and documented software and workflows for atlas-scale data (millions of cells) and high-dimensional proteomics.
• Act as the analytical point of contact within multidisciplinary scientific collaborations from analysis plan through to publication or portfolio decision.
• Translate complex findings into clear recommendations for project teams and leadership.

Your Background:

• PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistical genetics, statistics or a related quantitative discipline, or an MSc with equivalent industry experience.
• Hands-on experience analysing single-cell or single-nucleus transcriptomic data at scale, including QC, integration, annotation and differential analysis.
• A demonstrated track record of developing computational methods or tools.
• Experience with spatial transcriptomics or spatial proteomics platforms, such as Visium, Xenium, MERFISH or CosMx.
• Experience with deep generative or foundation models for single-cell data, such as scVI-tools, scGPT or Geneformer.

Apply:
For more information, or to apply for this Senior Bioinformatician role, please contact the Key Accounts Team on (phone number removed) or email (url removed). Please quote reference 71497.

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK

Please note: This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.