Facility: Imagenetics Building
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Address: 1321 W 22nd St, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA
Shift: Day
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00

Department Details

Flexibility with remote work; if working remote full time, travel to Sioux Falls will be required.

Manage and apply resources to general bioinformatics and medical informatics operations, guided by experience, organizational goals and operational strategies. Also responsible for the management of cyclical projects. Work on complex computational bioinformatics matters where analysis of issues, data and process require advanced specialist knowledge and in-depth industry and technical knowledge.

Contribute to the development of genomic clinical assays and their required validation (i.e. polygenic risk scores)

Oversee the computational bioinformatics and medical informatics team within the Imagenetics program across the enterprise. Collaborate with medical genetics lab leadership, the technology solutions team and many others.

Train, supervise and mentor members of the bioinformatics and medical informatics team.

Oversee bioinformatics pipelines for genetic data including planning, quality control, and project specific analyses.

Address the technical performance of the various experiments, especially for the array data, by comparing raw, quantile, cubic spline and rank invariant for each experiments.

For RNA Sequence data, assist with splice variant analysis and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP)/copy number variation (CNV) analysis.

Familiarity with security and privacy requirements applicable for working with patient data in a medical environment and in the development of appropriate ethically and legally compliant policies

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computer science or related field. Advanced degree in bioinformatics, medical informatics or related field preferred.

Minimum five years of related experience in bioinformatics, medical informatics or a closely related field required.

Two years in a managerial or leadership position and a demonstrated record of mentoring preferred.

Experience in the analysis of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data, including alignment, quality measurements, variant calling, variant annotation, variant prioritization, incidental findings reporting, and transcript quantification is required.

Computational experience is to include demonstrated database management, process management, next generation sequence analysis, and presentation of data to clinicians.

Preference will be given to individuals with expertise in database vitalization, genetic/epigenetic analyses and medical and/or research informatics experience.

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, sick leave and paid time off. To review your benefit eligibility, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org .

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0090677
Job Function: Research
Featured: No