Bioinformatician/computer Scientist

**About SickKids**:
Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

**Position Description**:
TCAG is a world-leading genomics facility located in the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. It is also a part of CGEn, Canada's national facility for genome sequencing and analysis. TCAG provides DNA sequencing services to a wide variety of public and private research institutions, using the latest platforms and technologies from Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, and other vendors. We seek qualified bioinformaticians to work with our Informatics and Biostatistics group to implement best-practices analysis, quality control, and data management pipelines, for the high volume of projects and samples conducted in the centre. This essential role is at the interface of laboratory and high performance computing, shepherding clients' data from the instruments through complex, multi-stage analyses on our local HPC cluster, and preparing final reports and data packages for delivery to each client.

Required skills include the development and maintenance of Python/Perl HPC pipelines for analyses, monitoring and troubleshooting the operation of processes in a large Unix HPC cluster environment, data management, and technical writing.

**Here’s What You’ll Get To Do**:

- Develop, execute software and support research software
- Conduct simulations to test software
- Work with statisticians and sequencing experts to tailor new methodological developments into highly sophisticated and efficient software to be used by researchers and laboratories around the world
- Work with both the sequencing facility, statisticians and the informatics group to streamline processing and quality assurance as we scale up to many thousands of samples per year for analysis and software integration.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- BSc or higher degree in bioinformatics, computer science, or a related discipline
- Familiarity with current best practices and software tools for analyzing high-throughput sequence data (e.g. GATK, Picard, BWA, Annovar, IGV) an asset
- Solid and demonstrated programming skills, particularly in Python, R, Perl, Flask, MongoDB, JavaScript (D3, plotly) and bash shell
- Strong organizational skills; this position requires tracking and managing many large and small projects for collaborators and internal researchers
- Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- A true team approach and collegial attitude

**Employment Type**: Temporary, Full-Time (one-year contract with possibility for renewal)

**Our Commitment to Diversity**:
The children and families we care for are from a variety of communities, and so are our employees. We welcome and encourage everyone to join our organization and be part of our team.

Thank you for your interest in joining SickKids. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with our Hospital policy, employment at SickKids is conditional upon the Hospital’s receipt of all necessary documentation.

**How to Apply