Bioinformatician (onsite), Enkhuizen, the Netherlands

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Posted: November 10, 2017

Job title: Bioinformatician

Company name: Enza Zaden

Location: Enkhuizen, the Netherlands

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Do you want to work in a research environment, are you interested in plant
biology and are you capable of building relationships on different levels
through the organisation in order to analyse business needs? As a
bioinformatician you will join our research team and develop healthy,
innovative vegetable varieties in a sustainable way.

As bioinformatician
you will be part of the Biotechnology Research department which performs a
wide range of research requiring you to work in close collaboration with
molecular biologists. This research generates vast amounts of data, ready
to be analysed. The goal of this analysis is to facilitate the breeding
process by finding leads which will enable the breeders to create the best
vegetable varieties.

You will mainly work on data analysis with focus on
next-generation sequencing data. This includes development of analysis
pipelines, including user interfaces and databases, data visualisation and
optimising in-house developed algorithms and workflows.

Our main stack is
Perl, Moo, Mojolicious, Rex. If the task requires it, we also switch to
other technologies, such as R or golang.

Desired skills:
You are familiar with software development and data analysis. You have the
drive to dig into complex data-sets and the ability to continue until you
have found the answers you are looking for. You keep looking for new
possibilities and you share your ideas with the team. Furthermore you have
excellent communication skills and are a strong team player.

To make this
function a success you’ll need the following requirements:

BSc or MSc
degree in bioinformatics, computer science or data analysis related field.

* Confident in the scripting language Perl (or other language and
willingness to learn Perl)
* Above average Linux skills
* Knowledge of
distributed source code version control system, e.g. git or mercurial
*
Interested in plant biology
* Fluent in English

Proficiency in high
performance computing and sequence data analysis is highly desirable. Basic
database knowledge (SQL/NoSQL) and web application development (Perl
Mojolicious) are a plus.

Website for more information:
http://www.enzazaden.com/careers-and-learning/vacancies/bioinformatician

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21060#contact