About the Company
EMBL is a world-leading life sciences research institute providing cutting-edge research, services, and training. The company is seeking to recruit a Scientific Workflows Developer to standardize, harmonize and integrate data formats and workflows, and advance data FAIRification platforms and practices across its six European sites.
Responsibilities
- Standardizing pipelines and data formats across the data lifecycle
- Supporting the implementation and development of local and pan-EMBL pipelines for managing, processing, and utilizing primary research data
- Developing solutions for integrating multimodal data, including imaging and spatial omics
- Ensuring FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles are embedded in data handling processes
- Contributing to onboarding and training of research staff to support their data needs
- Facilitating communication and data flow inside EMBL and between EMBL and non-EMBL scientists
- Exploring new methods, pipelines, and technologies to implement across EMBL initiatives
Requirements
- Masters degree or higher in Biology, Computer Science or a related technical field
- Experience building and executing scientific workflows with research data from multiple modalities
- Excellent command of Python, R and/or Julia, along with an understanding of scientific workflow platforms like Nextflow or Snakemake
- Understanding of software engineering best practices like automated testing, CI/CD, virtualization/containerization
- Previous experience (or strong desire) engaging with open-source communities, standards and specifications
- Passion for supporting researchers and making their research better, faster, more robust and reproducible
- Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration, communication, and training abilities
Benefits
- Salary free of income tax, monthly family/child allowances, annual salary review
- Pension scheme, death benefit, long-term care, accident-at-work and unemployment insurances
- Flexible working arrangements, private medical insurance for you and family
- 30 days annual leave, free shuttle bus, on-site library, gym and cafeteria
- Kindergarten, 10 days child sick leave, generous paid maternity/parental leave
- Visa exemption, education grant, travel support, monthly non-resident allowance