Population Health Manager - SME

Job description / Role

G42 Healthcare is a leading medical technology company in the MENA region, with footprint across Central Asia, Africa and Europe. G42 Healthcare is the initiator and operator of the largest human genome sequencing program in the world.

• Act as population health management subject matter expert for the organization
• Building the entire blue print, program plan for building, operationalizing and running a state-of-the-art sequencing facility & bio bank
• Knowledge of Bio Bank requirements, design, build, collection and management for population Gen scale projects
• NGS expert with broad experience in automated data capture and processing, QC and computational pipeline development for both Cloud environments
• Experience across all sectors of the genomics landscape, with deep relationships in clinical diagnostics, government and Pharma
• Possess an in-depth understanding of underlying biological and genetic mechanisms
• Understanding of data science and analytical tools
• Knowledge of Biobanks, design, build, collection and management for population Gen scale projects
• Next-generation sequencing expert with broad experience in automated data capture and processing, QC, and computational pipeline development for both cloud and local HPC environments
• Broad view across all sectors of the genomics landscape, with deep relationships in pharma, agbio, clinical diagnostics, academic medical centers, CROs, and government
• Possesses an in-depth understanding of underlying biological and genetic mechanisms
• Talented bioinformatics data scientist with experience developing analytical tools in Java, Bash, and R
• Versatile team member who excels as a leader, communicator, and science champion, inspiring others to transcend mediocrity in science
• Inventive problem solver; loves challenging use cases
• Conducting raw data and VCF analysis that meets quality standards of major peer-reviewed publications, staying abreast with bioinformatics best-practices as well as cutting-edge data analysis methods from recent publications.
• Providing extended team with data, analysis protocols, figures, method descriptions, code, documentation, support, and anything else that might be needed to meet cloud project goals.
• Managing time and projects efficiently to support the analysis needs of Bio Bank and Lab
• Establishing, refining, and standardizing the process for bioinformatics analysis and validation.
• Benchmark-driven development is expected,
• Meeting and evaluating 3rd party developers, service providers, and consortium members to stay on top of development of new tools, solutions, and practices in the field and come up with the right recommendations
• Observing the highest standards of customer interaction, including maintaining confidentiality when required.
• Supports all proposals and projects for the genomic initiative
• Support the management of resources within projects
• Managing the high throughput sequencing Operation
• Maintaining the right QA for operations
• Creation of entire Org chart for running operations
• Support program communication plan and execution
• Developing the pipeline for sequencing analysis for Whole genome
• Recommendations for all the right accreditation for the Bio Bank and Lab
• Provide coaching and mentoring of project team with the goal of developing and retaining talent within the organization

Requirements

• 20 years’ experience required
• Ph.D. in Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics/Genetics is a must
• Experience in Oxford Nanopore, BGI or Ilumina sequencing platform/technology as a preferable requirement.
• Currently a Principal Research Scientist or Head – Genomics or Senior Bioinformatics scientist for national genome programs or any Global genome program focusing on Bioinformatics, Data Science, Machine Learning and AI with 10-15 year’s experience in the Healthcare domain.
• Application of Illumina or BGI or Oxford Nanopore Sequencing technology to detect variants on Human Genome, de novo assembly, optimization, pipeline development etc.
• Strong hands on experience with machine learning, cloud deployment & architecture
• Published multiple articles within high level Data Science journals or Nature

About the Company

Group 42 is an Abu Dhabi based artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing company, uniquely positioned in the national ecosystem to develop and deploy holistic and scalable AI solutions.

• Industry Solutions: experienced team of data scientists and engineers based in Abu Dhabi. • Fundamental AI research, through our subsidiary the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), on AI, big data and machine learning. • Cloud Computing Infrastructure: the largest and most powerful Cloud Computing capability in the region. • Multidisciplinary and diverse team.

G42 has an active and extensive partnership network, connecting leading international organizations who complement our ecosystem and support our vision. Our partnerships range from strategic teaming agreement, joint ventures, to direct investment by G42.