Bioinformatician – Pathology

Date: 25 May 2025

Site: VCCC (Parkville)

Location:

MELBOURNE, VIC, AU, 3000

Company: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Unit: Molecular Pathology

Division: Business Ventures

Department: Pathology Operations

Enterprise Agreement: Health and Allied Services, Managers and Administr

Molecular Pathology

At Peter Mac we aim to continuously improve cancer care, research and education across all cancers and for all people affected by cancer: changing lives, breaking new ground. Everything we do is underpinned by our core values, Excellence, Compassion and Innovation. Welcoming people from a wide variety of different backgrounds and experiences is critical to fostering innovation, cultivating compassion, attracting and retaining top talent and providing the best possible cancer care for our patients.

YOUR ROLE IN OUR FUTURE

Full Time Fixed Term Role

This position requires a bioinformatician to support the clinical and research goals of the Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics. This position will be involved in designing and implementing new bioinformatic pipelines and workflows for NGS assays as well as the creating and developing tools for the aggregation and visualisation of existing large genomic datasets. This role is 80 Hours per Fortnight with a monthly ADO, Fixed Term until June 2026. Salary range between $92K -$102K depending on experience.

This role will be required to undertake both bioinformatics research to optimise analysis methodologies and bioinformatics operational development to streamline service deliveries.

Key responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Working with members of Wilson Centre to support the design and implementation of new analysis and workﬂow solutions.
Analyse and interpret QC data of sequencing experiments to facilitate assay optimisation.
Working with pathologists, medical scientists and researchers to support analytics and bioinformatics needs.
The successful candidate will have an MD/PhD in Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent. The candidate will have three or more years of experience in the ﬁeld of human bioinformatics.
This role will contribute to the University of Melbourne's partnership with international genomics company Illumina by collaborating with The Advanced Genomics Collaboration by jointly fostering the development of world-leading genomics research and innovation activities and to accelerate the translation of these innovation through to adoption in the healthcare system.

Victorian Department of Health has endorsed the initiative to restructure existing public pathology by bringing together laboratories into pathology networks operating under a lead health service.
Pathology services from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Women’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital will transition to a single pathology service. This creates an exciting opportunity to strengthen the scope, scale and reach of pathology services across the Parkville precinct to benefit all Victorians.
This role will transition to the new lead health service for pathology services once determined.

Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment.

For further information about this opportunity, click Apply to be redirected to the Peter Mac Careers page where you can review the position summary. Alternatively, please contact us using the information below for a confidential discussion.

Hiring Manager: Piers Blombery
Contact Number: 03 8559 8424
Email:piers.blombery@petermac.org

Applications Close:11:59PM Monday 9 June 2025
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Position Summary

This position requires a bioinformatician to support the clinical and research goals of the Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics. This position will be involved in designing and implementing new bioinformatic pipelines and workflows for NGS assays as well as the creating and developing tools for the aggregation and visualisation of existing large genomic datasets.
This role will be required to undertake both bioinformatics research to optimise analysis methodologies and bioinformatics operational development to streamline service deliveries.
Key responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Working with members of Wilson Centre to support the design and implementation of new analysis and workﬂow solutions.
Analyse and interpret QC data of sequencing experiments to facilitate assay optimisation. Working with pathologists, medical scientists and researchers to support analytics and bioinformatics needs.
The successful candidate will have an MD/PhD in Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent. The candidate will have three or more years of experience in the ﬁeld of human bioinformatics.

This role will contribute to the University of Melbourne's partnership with international genomics company Illumina by collaborating with The Advanced Genomics Collaboration by jointly fostering the development of world-leading genomics research and innovation activities and to accelerate the translation of these innovation through to adoption in the healthcare system.

Enterprise Agreement

Managers and Administrative Workers

Classification or Salary Range

HS5 year 1-5

Immunisation Risk Category

Category C: Position within a non-clinical setting

Key Relationships

Internal	Molecular Pathology Clinical Bioinformatics team Bionformatics Core Facility Research Computing Facility (RCF)
External	Staﬀ and students from other research institutes including WEHI and the University of Melbourne.

Education

Skills

Essential Requirements

Qualiﬁcation, experience and skills
PhD in an appropriate area of study (such as Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science, or Software Engineering).
Minimum of three-year relevant working experience with exposure to the analysis of next-generation sequencing data for human disease research.
Strong experience high-throughput transcriptomics/ RNA-sequencing and single-cell sequencing technologies.
Strong academic track record. demonstrated by publications and grant applications
Good track record of academic outreach, demonstrated by external oral presentations.
Excellent programming and data analysis skills in R and Python. Experience working in a Unix environment and shell scripting.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work constructively within a cross-disciplinary team environment. Excellent attention to detail, ensuring that data analysis, new methods and software implementations are of high quality and accessible to other researchers.
Ability to manage time eﬀectively.

Desirable Requirements

Experience in image analysis and data integration (across -omics and imaging data). Pipeline development and frameworks such as Nextﬂow.
Experience working with high-performance computing (HPC) systems, or in a cloud computing environment.
Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing related bioinformatics techniques

Certifications, Licenses & Registrations

Key Accountabilities

1. Design and implement bioinformatic analysis solutions to support core facilities operations	Accuracy and quality in the processing and analysis of data. Ability to optimize utilisation of resources, taking into consideration compute, storage and budget. Adhere to best practice in code and project documentation. Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical problems Ability to critically interpret QC and analysis results Well-developed planning and organizational skills.
2. Communication of requirements and outcomes	Provide a high standard of service and support to our stakeholders. Build and maintain strong working relationships with our stakeholders. Ability to communicate eﬀectively with researchers, laboratory technicians, bioinformaticians and software developers. Ability to understand and analyse software and data analysis requirements. Participation in lab/team meetings. Presentation of results to other stakeholders. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
3. Foster a good working relationship with colleagues	Development of a good working relationship with others in Molecular Pathology and Clinical Bioinformatics. Ability to work in a team. Willingness to help others in the team as required. High level of integrity and ethics.

Key Accountabilities (Contd..)

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For further information about this opportunity, click Apply to be redirected to the Peter Mac Careers page where you can review the position profile. Alternatively, please contact us for a confidential discussion.

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WHY WORK FOR PETER MAC

Peter Mac offer a range of benefits which support our people both personally and professionally.
Our staff benefits include award winning facilities, professional development and events, a health and wellbeing program, flexible work practices and policies and financial benefits such as salary packaging.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with a disability.