Data Engineer / Bioinformatician

Are you a Data Engineer or Bioinformation with big data experience who’s eager to learn and help drive team success? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment with an ambitious roadmap and want to be part of meaningful innovation in genomic diagnostics?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, join the SOPHiA GENETICS Tertiary Data Management Team as our Data Engineer / Bioinformatician, and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide. 

This role is a hybrid opportunity, requiring 3 days onsite our Bidart or Bordeaux office in France.

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission

As our Data Engineer / Bioinformatician, you will contribute to the development, optimization and maintenance of the knowledge bases used for variant annotations and for internal gene panel creation.  

The value you bring

• Design, develop and maintain the ETL tools for external data ingestion until the data exposition to internal users and platforms.  
• Design, develop and maintain databases for various public resources. 
• Contribute to the regular update of the internal versions of data sources, ensuring data quality and accuracy.  
• Collaborate with the pipeline development, platform development and project manager teams to explore and define the requirements for new data sources ingestion.  

• Master’s in bioinformatics, Computational Biology, data engineering, or a related field, with experience in data management. 
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Git, and Bash.  
• Experience with data pre-processing and management. 
• Experience with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, unit testing and code reviews. 
• Experience with ETL design and development is a plus. 
• Experience with PySpark or Parquet files is a plus.  
• Experience with NGS data analysis is a plus.  
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to apply critical thinking to complex problem-solving tasks. 
• Proven ability to work independently while maintaining accountability and delivering high-quality results. 
• Effective communication and collaboration skills in a multicultural and interdisciplinary environment. 
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic setting, with the flexibility to adapt to shifting business priorities. 

As an international organisation, English is our primary business language and you will need to bring full fluency in English. As part of your recruitment journey, you should expect to meet English-only speakers, so for best chances of success, you should include your CV in English. Non-English CVs have a high likelihood of being rejected at application stage.

You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

Business recognition and accolades include: 

• World’s most innovative companies (Top 10)
• World’s smartest companies (Top 50) 
• 100 Best Places to Work in Boston 
• Top 10 European Tech Startup
• Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
• Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:

• Forfait-Jour working types 
• Health benefits for you and your family covered by 80% employer contributions 
• Life Insurance and pensions contribution 
• SWILE meal vouchers and home office allowances

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous 

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action.

We decide; We do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do.

Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

The Process 

Apply now with your CV and any supporting information. 

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.

We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.

Start Date: ASAP 

Location: Bidart or Bordeaux FR - (Hybrid, 3 Days Per Week)

Contract: Permanent