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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # GBC Biodata Infrastructure Technical Analyst - **Company:** EMBL EBI - **Location:** Hinxton, UK - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Network Analysis, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Cleansing, Data Integration, Relational Databases, Database Queries, Information Extraction, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Named Entity Recognition, Software Engineering, Text Mining, Workflow Management Systems, Jupyter Notebook, Google Cloud, Jupyter, Gitlab, Information Technology, Restful APIs, Document Classification, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/infrastructure-analyst/embl-ebi-job107797519 ## About the Role * Undergraduate degree in either: + software engineering, informatics, computer science, or equivalent + life science, with strong computational components * Leadership of computational projects with responsibility for design, implementation and delivery * Authorship and maintenance of technical documentation * Strong Python skills for data cleaning, analysis, and visualisation * Ability to design reproducible data pipelines and maintain well-documented datasets * Experience with workflow tools such as Nextflow * Experience retrieving and integrating data from REST APIs, databases, and public data services * Strong SQL skills for querying relational databases. * Experience using AI-assisted coding and workflow tools to support reproducible data analysis, with appropriate human review * Experience applying machine-learning methods to text classification, named entity recognition, or information extraction * Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab * Experience with cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud * High attention to detail * Ability to present analytical findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences * A collaborative mindset * High level of organisation * Work independently as well as part of a team You might also have * Postgraduate qualification in informatics or life science * Involvement in bioinformatics data analysis * Work within the life sciences biodata resource ecosystem * Familiarity with biodata resources, biodata types, accession identifiers, and life-science data repositories * Experience working with Python notebooks, such as Jupyter or Google Colab * Experience with dashboarding, reporting, or interactive visualisation tools * Experience with bibliometrics, citation analysis, or citation-network analysis * Experience with text mining of scholarly literature, metadata, citations, acknowledgements, or full-text corpora ## Description We are looking for a pro-active, broadly skilled Biodata Infrastructure Technical Analyst to grow our operational intelligence base on global biodata infrastructure. You will develop and maintain analytical tools, and deliver analysis using these tools around the discovery, characterisation and usage of global biodata resources. You will report to the GBC Scientific Head., As Biodata Infrastructure Technical Analyst, you will be a central member of the GBC team providing foundational evidence for the GBC programme. Particular duties and responsibilities will include: * Development and maintenance of the body of software used in discovery and analysis of biodata resources and their interconnections * Management of GBC software repositories and cloud deployment environments * Maintenance and routine refresh of the GBC Global Inventory of biodata resources * Usage and other analyses relating both to the GBC's Global Core Biodata Resources and to the broader global biodata infrastructure * Citation, and citation network, analysis relating to global biodata resources * Text mining of the scholarly literature and other corpora for the extraction of biodata resource information and evidence of usage * Engagement and collaboration with external groups that build and maintain tools, services, catalogues, registries and other resources that relate to the delivery of GBC analytics * Communication verbally and in writing of analytical findings to members of the GBC Secretariat and external stakeholders ## Related Videos - [Geometric deep learning for drug discovery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/264-geometric-deep-learning-for-drug-discovery) - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [Kubernetes dev is fun, but setup and ops isn't! 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