Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

Job Overview Senior Scientist - Bioinformatician (Data Analysis) - full time permanent - South Mimms, Hertfordshire. Hybrid working: at least 8 days/month onsite, up to 12 days depending on business needs. Key Responsibilities Lead design, development and delivery of scalable NGS bioinformatics pipelines (Nextflow, Python, R). Manage cloud based bioinformatics infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform) ensuring reproducibility, governance and MHRA quality systems compliance. Perform quality control, statistical analysis and biological interpretation of multi modality NGS data in collaboration with cross functional teams. Mentor junior bioinformaticians, contribute to publications, grant proposals and integrate emerging technologies. Required Qualifications MSc or equivalent in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or related discipline. Extensive experience delivering large scale bioinformatics analysis using cloud computing environments. Proficiency in Bash, Python, R, Nextflow and containerisation (Docker, Singularity, GitHub). Strong project management skills and ability to communicate complex genomic data to diverse audiences. Preferred Experience Hands on pipeline development for genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, microbiome profiling and single cell analysis. Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Unix/Linux environments. Previous leadership of analytical components in multi stakeholder projects. Assessment Method A=Application, T=Test, I=Interview, P=Presentation - assessment will follow Civil Service Success Profiles. Contact and Application Closing date: 9 February 2026. Applications open online. For questions, email .