Technical Program Manager I

Excelra is looking for highly skilled and motivated members for the Program Management Team with technical experience across multiple domains (AI/ML,NGS/human genetics/statistics, software development, project management, agile methodology) in bioinformatics to join the Bioinformatics team. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate the following competencies:

1. Project management as well as program management across different projects in key client accounts.

2. Liaison the relationship between client and Excelra

3. Contribute to efforts to increase operational efficiency among projects.

4. Collaboration with delivery for successful delivery of projects

5. Interact with the technical stakeholders of clients to identify new business opportunities.

Qualifications:

• PhD with 2-3 years of industrial experience in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Computational Biology, or related field.
• Strong track record of scRNA-Seq and other Omics (NGS) data analysis and downstream systemic interpretation are must.
• Good understanding of current best practices in computational biology data-management (NGS/Transcriptiomics/Microarray/Proteomics/Clinical-trials/Text-mining, etc.).
• Expertise in one or more programming/scripting languages such as R, Python, shell-script for complex data analysis.
• Experience with Docker and Nextflow.
• Familiarity with machine learning is an added advantage.
• Experience with Linux environment or cloud computing (AWS/GCP) is a plus.
• Experience with Relational database such as Postgres, MySQL, or Oracle, is a plus.
• Experience with version control systems such as GitHub, is a plus.
• Ability to generate in-silico experimental workflows and in-depth knowledge in proprietary and public biological databases, methods, and tools.
• Ability to generate scientific hypothesis along with good scientific/technical communication skills would be preferred.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• The selected candidate will be part of the Excelras Bioinformatics group. You will be responsible to work with a team in research data analysis in both prospective and retrospective manner to generate the novel hypothesis.
• Work with diverse customers/partners in drug discovery and development
• Work with multi-disciplinary team of PhD level scientists
• Responsible for day-to-day operational activities of Omics (NGS) related projects
• Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments
• present the results and scientific hypotheses to internal and external stake holders
• Good communication and analytical skills combined with ability to recognize and implement project plans.
• Writing research papers, reports, reviews, and summaries