Team Leader, Bioinformatics

About us:

At Canon Medical Research Europe, helping care teams to get the best outcome for their patients is at the heart of everything we do.  We strive to create technology that makes a meaningful difference to people’s lives, helping doctors to restore their patients’ health and well-being.  Our R&D centre of excellence in Edinburgh are seeking a Team Leader for Bioinformatics, with the appropriate combination of scientific leadership and project management experience, who is enthusiastic, energetic, and innovative, and shares our passion for data science and the opportunity to contribute to our wider vision of empowering the patient and their care team anywhere in the world by transforming information into action!

About the role:

This is an excellent opportunity to provide scientific and technical leadership in an intellectually stimulating team-based environment, with the ability to guide and contribute to leading edge technology in the medical imaging industry. You will lead our bioinformatics data science projects and the activities of a small team of high-performing scientists, engineers, and clinical analysts, within our AI Research Centre of Excellence, reporting to the AI Research Technical Manager. You will lead the concept creation and development of innovative algorithms in bioinformatics and machine learning.  Applications include prognostic prediction in cancer screening based on multi-omics data (e.g.  somatic genomes, transcriptomics and immunohistochemistry) in combination with multi-modal data from health records. 

For this position, we require highly developed technical and scientific skills, in particular an instinctive understanding of the principles of machine learning and statistics, an awareness of key –omics modalities of transcriptomics, genomic variants, immunohistochemistry, and techniques of differential gene expression analysis.  Experience of working with bioiformatics databases such as GeneBank, KEGG and STRING is required.  This should be combined with an understanding of the principles of deep learning and a solid grounding in software engineering. As we work mainly in Python, using libraries such as Pandas, SkLearn, Keras or PyTorch a good familiarity would be expected.  Familiarity with R would also be of benefit, as this is used to access specialised bioinformatics libraries, such as Bioconductor.

About you:

The successful candidate will have well developed leadership qualities and be able to demonstrate leadership on challenging problems and technical debate, as well motivating teams and the fundamentals of good project management.

You will possess excellent communication skills, with the confidence to communicate at all levels of the organisation, including senior leadership.

You will be able to demonstrate strong teamworking and inter-team collaboration skills, the ability to give sound judgement, make independent decisions, filter and identify strong ideas, develop concepts from idea to design to development. You will be strongly motivated by work that makes a difference in a healthcare environment.

You will hold a relevant post-graduate qualification (ideally PhD level, or possibly Masters with appropriate experience) in an engineering, scientific, or informatics related discipline.  It is essential you have a passion for science, technology, and learning.

What we can offer you:

Canon Medical Research Europe has a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture.  We want to provide you with the right environment to enable you to grow and develop your career, by giving you time to learn new skills.  We are part of a global family, that works closely with other development teams giving the opportunity of work placements at partner sites.

We are happy to talk about flexible working for all our roles.  The majority of our employees have adopted a hybrid working model and we are also happy to discuss remote working in the UK.

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package that reflects the value we place on our people and the work we do.  Our package includes group personal pension scheme, private medical and risk benefits, 36 days annual leave, enhanced family leave and pay, employee wellbeing support, Canon product discount, and discounted cinema tickets. Further information can be found here.

If the above sounds like you, and you like the sound of us, then please get in touch. We'd love to work with you.