Senior Expert Bioinformatics
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Posting ID: REQ-10060601
East Hanover, NJ
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Summary
Senior Bioinformatics Expert/Scientist within the Quantitative Science and Statistics group. Working in a highly collaborative environment, the successful candidate will build and develop bioinformatics support to next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and platforms in advancing cell and gene therapy platform. The successful candidate is expected to play an active role in leading and managing bioinformatics initiatives and work in close collaboration with wet lab scientists and internal and external collaborators.
About the Role
#LI-Hybrid
Key Responsibilities:
The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.
Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
To learn more about the culture, rewards and benefits we offer our people click here .
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we'll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Accessibility & Reasonable Accommodations
The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call +1(877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Senior Bioinformatics Expert/Scientist within the Quantitative Science and Statistics group. Working in a highly collaborative environment, the successful candidate will build and develop bioinformatics support to next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and platforms in advancing cell and gene therapy platform. The successful candidate is expected to play an active role in leading and managing bioinformatics initiatives and work in close collaboration with wet lab scientists and internal and external collaborators.
About the Role
#LI-Hybrid
Key Responsibilities:
- Work as a lead bioinformatics scientist both independently and as a member of cross-functional teams to lead the effort on NGS experimental design, data analysis and interpretation.
- Develop bioinformatics pipelines for NGS data analysis, data management and enabling data analysis pipelines in routine analysis. Provide troubleshooting and maintenance supports.
- Produce high quality written documentation including study protocols, data analysis plans and reports.
- Refine algorithms and tools for sequencing data analysis and propose improvements.
- Communicating internally with other departments and externally with collaborators about technological capabilities and gap analysis.
- Lead bioinformatics pipeline validation and transfer.
- Support the wider R&D team with general bioinformatics need
- PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, molecular biology, virology or related discipline.
- At least 5 years of relevant industry work experience is required.
- Strong domain knowledge in genomics, excellent programming skills, and deep experience with next-generation sequencing and analysis.
- End-to-end complete life cycle experience in analysis and workflow/pipeline development for major NGS platforms for mutation analysis, genome mapping, variant calling and interpretation.
- Strong communication skills, ability to work both independently and collaboratively, to manage multiple concurrent, fast-paced projects and to work with multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to set up bioinformatics computation systems from ground up.
- Experience in virology or viral gene therapy and working experience in GxP environment is considered a plus
The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.
Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
To learn more about the culture, rewards and benefits we offer our people click here .
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we'll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Accessibility & Reasonable Accommodations
The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call +1(877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
On-SiteCommunication
Workflow Management
Data Analysis
Innovation
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
Algorithms
Biostatistics
Data Management
Statistics
Virology
Molecular Biology
DNA Sequencing
Bioinformatics
Genetic Mutations
Computational Biology
Genomics
Next-Generation Sequencing
Domain Knowledge
Gene Therapy
