Bioinformatician / Data Scientist at International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Key Responsibilities:

• Stay up to date with new sequencing tools, platforms, and data analysis tools that can be incorporated into the ADVANCE program, ensuring the program maintains and easily accommodates new innovations and technologies
• Build and integrate cloud-based/on-premise architecture to facilitate the analysis pipelines
• Support analysis of sequencing data sets obtained by Sanger, Illumina NGS, and 10x
• Support development and improvement of computational pipelines to analyze antibody, virus, and HLA/TCR sequences
• Write software for curating, modeling, and maintaining large datasets
• Maintain and further develop the Laboratory information management system (LIMS)
• Integration and analysis of large scale clinical, epidemiological, and genetic datasets to gain new insights into disease susceptibility, disease progression, and vaccine response – particularly within the context of HIV infection
• Build a knowledge base of existing bioinformatics capacity and future research aspirations for each CRC site, informing capacity building plans at the individual and cross-network levels
• Garner a detailed understanding of ongoing projects in ADVANCE and suggest computational tools to accelerate outputs for different research projects
• Understand the long-term portfolio of ADVANCE’s medium and long-term projects, particularly those related to capacity building and clinical trials, and co-develop computational and statistical tools to support future activities

Education and Experience:

• An advanced degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, data science or a related field is required; PhD is desirable
• Minimum 4 years of experience in bioinformatics and data science is required.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience and knowledge of cloud computing administration or on-premise network administration and application deployment (GCS or AWS) is required
• A strong track record in published research and/or directing research programs is required
• Experience with capacity building or strengthening in LMICs is required
• Experience programming in Python and software development stacks is required
• Experience in the use of JuPandas Data Library and Jupyter Software Ecosystem is required
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills are required
• Excellent planning, project management, and organizational skills are required.
• Knowledge of Web APIs, REST/GraphQL is highly desirable
• Experience in continuous deployment/continuous integration (CI/CD) is highly desirable
• Experience with No-SQL database modeling is highly desirable
• Experience in managing multi-centre research projects is desirable
• Previous work experience in the field of Global Health and/or HIV is desirable