Biotechnology Jobs

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Lead UK direct tax compliance and group tax reporting for a FTSE 100 biopharmaceutical business, preparing and reviewing corporation tax computations, patent box and capital allowance claims, and quarterly and year-end tax provisions under Sarbanes-Oxley. Handle HMRC audit queries and negotiations, advise the UK business on legislation changes, and drive process efficiencies through automation and AI.

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• Luton
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Lead UK direct tax compliance and reporting for a FTSE 100 biopharmaceutical group, preparing and reviewing corporation tax computations, patent box and capital allowance claims, and quarterly and year-end tax provisions. Advise the UK business on legislation changes, HMRC audits and governance regimes, while driving process efficiencies through automation and AI.

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £3,452 pm
• Mid-level
• Contract

Develops the user-facing Europe PMC service, building fast, accessible interfaces for searching and navigating a corpus of over 47 million biomedical publications. Works with UX, product, back-end and data science colleagues to create reusable components, integrate REST APIs and JSON data, and improve performance, accessibility and maintainability within an Agile team.

React · Vue · Git +2

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £3,452 pm
• Mid-level
• Contract

Maintains microbial genomes in Ensembl, loading new annotations, coordinating releases and diagnosing data issues. Develops functional annotation and pangenome pipelines, evaluates taxon-specific annotation tools, and builds Nextflow or Snakemake workflows with Python, relational databases and HPC or cloud infrastructure.

Nextflow · Snakemake · MySQL +7

• London
• Hybrid · 2–3 days in office
• Junior

Contribute across a full-stack cloud product and IoT devices that interface with hardware automating human cell production. Work spans TypeScript, React, GraphQL frontends and Node.js/PostgreSQL backends, with cross-disciplinary collaboration alongside hardware engineers and biologists, including testing on prototype machines in the lab.

React · TypeScript · GraphQL +7

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £4,395 pm
• Lead · manages people
• Contract

Lead the scientific data programme behind FENIX, a unified platform for archiving and exploring functional genomics datasets. You will line manage bioinformaticians and curators, own data standards and quality controls, and guide reproducible Nextflow workflow development while acting as principal scientific liaison with teams such as ENA, Ensembl and UniProt.

Nextflow · Python · R +7

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• Senior
• Temporary

Combines hands-on development of production bioinformatics services like Job Dispatcher with scientific and technical leadership, shaping product strategy, roadmaps and backlog priorities. Works with scientists, engineers and infrastructure teams on HPC, Nextflow, SLURM and containerised tools, and represents services in committee meetings.

Job Dispatcher · FiRE · Angular +7

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £3,452 – £3,861 pm
• Contract

Curate molecular interaction and macromolecular complex data from scientific literature and user depositions into the IntAct and Complex Portal knowledgebases. Work with bioinformaticians and developers to build curation workflows combining expert manual curation with AI-assisted literature mining, using ontologies and community data standards.

IntAct · Complex Portal · Gene Ontology +2

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £3,452 – £3,861 pm
• Contract

Develops and maintains Python and Java data pipelines that generate ChEMBL releases, plus other chemogenomics services like SureChEMBL, UniChem and ChEBI. Involves database administration, integrating external chemical databases, and collaborating with interdisciplinary scientists and engineers on curation and quality issues.

RDKit · Open Babel · InChI +7

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £4,395 pm
• Senior · manages people
• Contract

Lead solution architecture for digital experience initiatives spanning web applications, APIs, content platforms and AI-enabled services. Remain hands-on through discovery, prototyping and architectural development while providing technical direction, mentoring and people management to the development team. Bridges UX and engineering, shaping LLM, retrieval-augmented generation and agentic patterns into accessible, sustainable services.

React · Angular · Drupal +7