Team Coordinator - Samples, Phenotypes & Ontologies

EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory

At EMBL-EBI we provide a dynamic, international working environment and have close ties with both the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. EMBL-EBI staff enjoy many benefits including excellent sports facilities, a free shuttle bus to Cambridge and other nearby centres, an active sports and social club and an attractive working environment set in 55 acres of parkland.

Qualifications and Experience
Required skills:

• A first degree in a biological science or bioinformatics
• A higher degree (e.g. MSc. or PhD)
• 7 years’ experience gained in an academic or industrial bioinformatics environment delivering production quality services and code
• At least 8 years of experience of Java programming (object oriented and database programming) in a biomedical services environment
• Experience of Perl and R along with experience with JDBC and web frameworks such as Spring MVC, Groovy, Ruby on Rails
• The ability to switch languages to suit the task at hand
• Familiarity with SQL
• Experience of data manipulation of high dimensionality data (e.g. gene expression or other omics data) in a bioinformatics service environment.
• Experience of managing a development team
• Ability to manage a team of programmers working in different languages on different projects
• Use of agile development practices
• Previous experience of programming with semantic web technologies (OWL API, Reasoners such as ELK or Hermit)
• Development, evaluation and application of ontologies in OWL
• Experience of user interface development for the web
• Familiarity with user experience testing strategies
• Use of continuous integration technologies
• Management and performance of code review
• Proven ability to produce project timelines and meet deadlines
• Project management experience for EC and international collaborative projects e.g. NIH
• Proven grant writing experience

The Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies Team is at the forefront of linked data efforts within the EBI, so you will need to have significant experience of working with biomedical ontologies and be an expert in programming with the OWL API. Experiences with at least one RDF triplestore technology e.g. (Sesame, OWLIM, Virtuoso) and SPARQL is also required, and experience of delivering production systems using these technologies is desirable. Experience in delivering and maintaining ontologies is required.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required as is project and personnel management experience. You should be familiar with:

• Writing project, technical and user documentation
• Delivering presentations to diverse audiences such as funders, policy makers, users and technical personnel and designing training documentation
• You will be managing internally and externally funded projects and collaboratively developed services and tools and therefore should have experience of writing international grants and reporting on these

You should be able to deliver a solution from backend database all the way up to front end user interface. You should be able to embrace new languages or technologies as they emerge and apply them within the biomedical domain.