As member of Ablynx’ R&D Information Technology and Solutions team, you will be responsible for lifecycle management of R&D business solutions, such as the compound database, bioinformatics applications and data integration. You will need to provide functional and technical expertise to optimize the way a solution is used and facilitate business process improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Support and extend the data integration platform for scientific data of key R&D applications
- System administration, maintenance and upgrade of application for validation, annotation and persistence of nanobody sequences (front end + back end).
- Design and support (system administration, maintenance and upgrade) of custom bioinformatics tools that support business processes for R&D and IP.
- You will participate in integration of Ablynx R&D solutions with global Sanofi R&D solutions.
Candidate profile
· Bachelor or master in the field of molecular biology, bioinformatics or equivalent by experience.
- Knowledge of and experience with database design, data integration design, SQL, and ETL-Tools. Fluent in SQL is a must.
- Experience in data integration, including ETL
- Experience with development tools including version control (git), continuous integration (GoCD, Jenkins), build automation utilities (maven, ant, gradle, …), package management (cpanm, Sonatype Nexus) and IDE (IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, ...), documentation (markdown, perldoc, JavaDoc)
- Skilled in Java development, including design patterns and ORM
- Strong affinity with bioinformatics tools like EMBOSS, blast, cd-hit, HMMER, …
- Experience with SOA and clear understanding of Web services approach including Web service protocols (REST and SOAP)
- Comfortable in using Linux and command line interfaces do not frighten you off
- Eagerness to explore and learn is a must.
- Experience in following are a plus but not required:
- No-sql
- Perl (BioPerl), Python and Groovy scripting
- SpotFire (design of information links and reports)
- Pipeline technologies (eg. NextFlow, Galaxy)
- MVC web frameworks like Catalyst and Mason
- CLC plugin development
- Oracle database system management
- Container technology (Docker, Singularity)
- S anofi is committed to welcoming and integrating people with disabilities
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