Bioinformatics Pipeline Engineer at Syngenta

Job Description

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta’s Bioinformatics Platform is seeking a Bioinformatics Pipeline Engineer in the UK. This role will support the delivery of production grade Bioinformatics products by developing well-engineered Bioinformatics Pipelines which generate FAIR data and designing, developing, and maintaining standards. This will ensure alignment across different R&D functions and sciences, including Genomics, Metabarcoding, Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics.

Accountabilities

• Being accountable for the design and development of scalable Nextflow pipelines, either through direct development or by guiding third-party implementations, ensuring automated testing and quality control measures
• Establish and govern pipeline development standards, best practices, and documentation across R&D
• Manage pipeline infrastructure, including versioning, deployment processes, and compatibility across compute environments
• Provide technical leadership in pipeline architecture and design, code reviews, and technical guidance to both internal teams and third-party developers
• Collaborate with scientists, business analysts and engineers to gather requirements and architect efficient pipeline solutions, coordinating implementation with internal teams or external partners

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related field
• 3+ years of hands-on experience of engineering
• Strong software engineering foundation including version control, automated testing, containerization (Docker/Singularity), scripting (Python, R, Shell), monitoring and observability tools, Agile methodologies
• Experience in designing and developing production-grade ETL pipelines
• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing platforms (preferably AWS) and HPC environments, including performance optimization and resource management
• Proven track record in setting up processes and engineering decision making

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in life sciences, working with biologists or chemists
• Experience in Bioimnformatics domain, Nextflow and NF core