Data and Computing Technician (50%)

From June 1, 2027, or by agreement, the Pediatric Disease Modeling Lab at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, is seeking a Data and Computing Technician to build and maintain the data and computing backbone of a growing research group. The lab's mission is to understand how early-life exposures to the microbiome shape lifelong health through their impact on the developing immune system, using mathematical models and multi-omics data from pediatric cohorts worldwide.

• Manage the lab's research data and computational infrastructure, including data entry, storage, documentation, harmonization, and analysis on high-performance computing resources.
• Work closely with the Senior Scientist, PI, postdocs, and PhD students to ensure secure, quality-controlled, and analysis-ready datasets, and a reliable computational environment.
• Maintain data management plans and implement secure storage, access control, and pseudonymization in line with data-transfer agreements, ethics approvals, and Swiss and EU data-protection requirements.
• Organize secure receipt and transfer of data with partner cohorts.
• Manage compute and storage resources on the University of Basel's high-performance computing infrastructure (sciCORE), maintain software environments and shared tooling, and provide first-line IT support to the team.
• Build and maintain reproducible data-processing pipelines (e.g., Snakemake or Nextflow, containers, version control).
• Standardize clinical metadata across cohorts and build a common data dictionary.
• Process sequencing data, including quality control and taxonomic classification of 16S and shotgun metagenomic data, and process other omics layers as needed.
• Create and version analysis-ready datasets for the modeling team, with clear documentation and provenance tracking.
• Document data and workflows, and support team members in data access and best practices.