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Healthcare Scientist / Software Engineer, Public Health England, London Application Deadline: 18th November Public Health England provides strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nation’s health. Its ambition is to lead nationally, and enable locally, a transformation in the health expectations of all people in England, regardless of where they live and the circumstance of their birth. It will achieve this through the application of research, knowledge and skills. PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health. It is a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy to advise and support government, local authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner. The Whole Genome Sequencing Software Development Unit will oversee the implementation of a coherent unified WGS service for PHE. The priority is to deliver on the strategic aim of developing unified informatics solutions for assembling, analyzing and reporting WGS results. This needs to be fit-for-purpose for a wide range of bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens and builds on extensive work establishing bespoke and successful routine WGS-based services for several key infectious disease agents. Applicants should have a post graduate qualification in computer science or bioinformatics, complemented by experience in software engineering. The post-holder will be a highly skilled programmer in an object oriented language. Experience in programming in python is desirable. They will also have experience in delivering large, complex and collaborative software solutions within a project planning framework. The appointee will have experience in delivering software via a variety of computational architectures (distributed, cloud etc) and will be well versed in software practices around versioning and documentation. More Information >>>>> http://bit.ly/2KpfI61 View Similar Jobs >>>>> www.StatsJobs.com . You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.