Bioinformatics Specialist

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Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level C Job Title Bioinformatics Specialist Department Leadership | Shared Research Platform Compensation Range $6,949.92 - $9,992.50 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job. Posting End Date July 14, 2026 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. Job End Date Ongoing At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. Job Summary UBC established the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium (SBC) to help make sequencing affordable and accessible to the largest number of researchers on campus. Data analysis, data management and systems administration are essential components of all SBC activity, as the environment is one of rapid change and emerging technologies and methods, each requiring customized and novel data solutions. The Bioinformatics Specialist is responsible for overseeing the UBC Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium's (SBC) analysis pipelines as well as compute and data management systems. This individual researches, analyzes and implements solutions to support and enhance Consortium activities and provides excellent service to its users. Organizational Status Reports to the VPRI Shared Research Platform Manager - Operations, and works in collaboration with the Scientific Advisor of the SBC, VP Research & Innovation Office, the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team, UBC IT, the users of the SBC (researchers, staff, students or industry clients) as well as collaborators at affiliated organizations. Work Performed Acts as the lead analyst/programmer for bioinformatics data analysis and software development projects and lead architect for data management and database solutions. Provides design input and strategic technical suggestions in these areas to maintain an end-to-end system that efficiently houses, analyzes and disseminates high-quality data and results. Designs solutions to resolve system-related problems, meet user requirements, and streamline system workflows. Monitors and analyzes systems issues and provides recommendations for all systems supported infrastructure as part of regular operations. Writes and maintains systems documentation including user and technical manuals. Understand customer needs and requirements to develop, implement and monitor effective quality control processes; devise and review specifications for laboratory outcomes. Create and enforce standards in accordance with industry standards and customer expectations. Responsible for implementing and executing inspection, testing, and evaluation methods to ensure that products adhere closely to SBC quality expectations. Clearly defines all workflows, communicates documentation requirements for processes (SOPs), and ensures all practices are being followed and refined as required based on new learnings. Inspect intermediary and final outputs and compare to quality requirements; approve or reject output as require. Ensures internal department workflow and tracking documents exist and are up to date; authority to pause internal processes until pipelines/processes are approved and documented appropriately. Acts as a liaison between technical groups and stakeholders to coordinate the system's installation and ensure technical compatibility and satisfaction. Develops tests for all software developed by creating test data and inputs and testing code. Implements data management tools including relational database management applications for efficient storage and retrieval of all results from all samples used in the research work. Conducts and supports bioinformatic and statistical analysis and interpretation of DNA and RNA sequencing data in internal and collaborative research projects using appropriate software tools and custom-written programs and scripts. Documents and communicates analysis results in written and oral form. Contributes to team interactions by consultation, collaboration, teamwork and task sharing. Works to ensure that experimental design includes data management and analysis considerations. Ongoing professional development in bioinformatics data management and analysis. Offers guidance to researchers for project-specific protocol adaptations. Evaluate

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