Bioinformatics Engineer – Single-cell & Bulk Transcriptomics

Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking for Techno Functional SME with core background in Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics and GCP Cloud who could join our team of IT professionals in a permanent role.

Role: Bioinformatics Engineer – Single-cell & Bulk Transcriptomics

Skill set: Bioinformatics, scRNA-seq, Bulk RNA-seq, GCP, Pipeline Engineering

Must Have Skills

• Experience processing scRNA-seq and bulk RNA-seq datasets (10x Genomics, SMART-seq)
• Workflows: Cell Ranger, STARsolo, Kallisto Bustools, Alevin/Alevin Fry, Seurat/Scanpy
• Bulk RNA-seq tools: STAR, HISAT2, Salmon, Kallisto, FastQC, Picard, DESeq2, edgeR, limma
• Pipeline capabilities: FASTQ/BCL ingestion, QC, trimming, alignment/pseudo‑alignment
• Gene/transcript quantification, normalization, batch correction and feature selection
• Experience in clustering, dimensionality reduction, DE analysis and trajectory inference
• Pathway en...