Position title: BioInformatician / Software Engineer

Employer: The University of Melbourne

Closing date: 11 Oct 2022

Brief position description: The selected candidate will primarily be responsible for implementing a secure cloud-based system for upload, management, and analysis of Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV molecular data and selected sample meta-data obtained from public health laboratories (PHLs) in Australia to enable a rapid public health response. In addition, the candidate will be responsible for developing approaches to integrate with traditional epidemiological data. The candidate may also contribute to implementation of visualisation tools on this platform. 

This collaborative effort includes researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and community stakeholders from the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory at the Doherty Institute and the Kirby Institute, UNSW.

Responsibilities include:

Engaging and consulting with users including bioinformaticians, genomics epidemiologists, and government across jurisdictions to develop the molecular epidemiological data platform for HIV and HCV in the H2Seq project
Investigating suitability of existing pathogen molecular epidemiological platforms for adaption to fulfill H2Seq program requirements.
Engaging with bioinformaticians and genomic epidemiologists to develop and implement processes for managing HIV and HCV genomics data on this platform
Interfacing with members of the AusTrakka development team to implement best-practice in development of a cloud-based data management platform and associated web-based visualisation tools.

Job website:http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/909959/bioinformatician-software-engineer

Contact name: Lachlan Coin

Contact email: lachlan.coin@unimelb.edu.au