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Remote bioinformatics jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first biotech firms, pharmaceutical companies, and distributed research teams working in genomics, computational biology, and precision medicine. Employers hiring remotely right now include Axle, OMG Technology, and HELIX. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Metas Solutions excels in providing strategic consulting, program management, and data-driven analytics to federal public health agencies. Our expertise enhances health systems and delivers measurable outcomes, helping agencies achieve their mission. We collaborate with federal partners to implement agile solutions for national public health initiatives, driving impactful changes through cutting-edge programs that strengthen communities and promote well-being. See www.metassolutions.com for further details about us and careers with Metas.
Job Description:
Metas Solutions has an "immediate opening" for a talented Bioinformatics Business Analyst. In this Remote position, you will support the strategy, evolution, and adoption of enterprise bioinformatics platforms, analytical tools, and data solutions supporting public health initiatives. This role serves as a liaison between scientific stakeholders, product teams, and technical teams, translating bioinformatics and public health requirements into actionable product features, platform capabilities, and implementation plans within an Agile delivery environment.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with scientists, public health stakeholders, and technical teams to elicit, analyze, and document business, scientific, operational, and technical requirements for bioinformatics platforms and tools.
- Develop and maintain use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements that support bioinformatics and data platform initiatives.
- Partners with product managers, architects, and technical leads to define, prioritize, and refine platform capabilities, enhancements, and strategic roadmaps.
- Coordinate activities across bioinformatics, data science, engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment, dependency management, and successful solution delivery.
- Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Program Increment (PI) planning while tracking requirements, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.
- Assist with governance activities, KPI and success metric definition, product demonstrations, stakeholder briefings, and user feedback sessions to promote platform adoption and continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology,genomics,or a related field
- 2+ years of experience analyzing bioinformatics workflows, data types, and analytical use cases such as genomics, sequencing data, pipelines, or surveillance analytics
- Knowledge of commonbioinformatics, lifesciences,public health data platforms or analytical tools
- Knowledge of front-end or back-end technologies used for application development, including SQL, NoSQL databases, or web-based interactive user interfaces
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, orSAFedelivery environments
- Ability to lead client and stakeholder discussions, ask the right questions, document clear requirements, and translate them into actionable implementation steps
- Ability to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience working in a public health, life sciences, or research-focused environment
- Experiencewith the systems development lifecycles and modern data platform architecture
- Experiencewithbusiness analysis processes, includingtranslating scientific or technical requirements into user stories, use cases, and platform features
- Experience modeling business processes and requirements, using structured tools and techniques, including use-case scenarios, and integrating them with data and system architectural models and requirements
- Knowledge ofbig data, analytics, or bioinformatics platforms in a cloud environment
- Knowledge of cloud-based systems and data platforms
- Master's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology,genomics,or a related field
- Agile orSAFeCertification
Security Requirements:
- Must be US Citizen and with the ability to obtain a US Government security clearance (Public Trust 5) within a reasonable period
- Market competitive salary, commensurate with experience and education
- Comprehensive benefits package available, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401K with company match, growth, and promotion opportunities
Notice on Candidate AI Usage
Metas Solutions is committed to maintaining a fair and competitive interview process for all candidates, based on their experience, skills, and education. To preserve the integrity and fairness of our interview process, candidates are expected to respond to all interview questions based on their own knowledge, skills, and experience. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools or other third-party resources to generate, assist with, or provide interview responses during phone, virtual, or in-person interviews is not permitted. Any use of AI-assisted responses during the interview process may result in disqualification from further consideration for employment.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Metas Solutions excels in providing strategic consulting, program management, and data-driven analytics to federal public health agencies. Our expertise enhances health systems and delivers measurable outcomes, helping agencies achieve their mission. We collaborate with federal partners to implement agile solutions for national public health initiatives, driving impactful changes through cutting-edge programs that strengthen communities and promote well-being. See www.metassolutions.com for further details about us and careers with Metas.
Job Description:
Metas Solutions has an "immediate opening" for a talented Bioinformatics Business Analyst. In this Remote position, you will support the strategy, evolution, and adoption of enterprise bioinformatics platforms, analytical tools, and data solutions supporting public health initiatives. This role serves as a liaison between scientific stakeholders, product teams, and technical teams, translating bioinformatics and public health requirements into actionable product features, platform capabilities, and implementation plans within an Agile delivery environment.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with scientists, public health stakeholders, and technical teams to elicit, analyze, and document business, scientific, operational, and technical requirements for bioinformatics platforms and tools.
- Develop and maintain use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements that support bioinformatics and data platform initiatives.
- Partners with product managers, architects, and technical leads to define, prioritize, and refine platform capabilities, enhancements, and strategic roadmaps.
- Coordinate activities across bioinformatics, data science, engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment, dependency management, and successful solution delivery.
- Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Program Increment (PI) planning while tracking requirements, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.
- Assist with governance activities, KPI and success metric definition, product demonstrations, stakeholder briefings, and user feedback sessions to promote platform adoption and continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology,genomics,or a related field
- 2+ years of experience analyzing bioinformatics workflows, data types, and analytical use cases such as genomics, sequencing data, pipelines, or surveillance analytics
- Knowledge of commonbioinformatics, lifesciences,public health data platforms or analytical tools
- Knowledge of front-end or back-end technologies used for application development, including SQL, NoSQL databases, or web-based interactive user interfaces
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, orSAFedelivery environments
- Ability to lead client and stakeholder discussions, ask the right questions, document clear requirements, and translate them into actionable implementation steps
- Ability to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience working in a public health, life sciences, or research-focused environment
- Experiencewith the systems development lifecycles and modern data platform architecture
- Experiencewithbusiness analysis processes, includingtranslating scientific or technical requirements into user stories, use cases, and platform features
- Experience modeling business processes and requirements, using structured tools and techniques, including use-case scenarios, and integrating them with data and system architectural models and requirements
- Knowledge ofbig data, analytics, or bioinformatics platforms in a cloud environment
- Knowledge of cloud-based systems and data platforms
- Master's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology,genomics,or a related field
- Agile orSAFeCertification
Security Requirements:
- Must be US Citizen and with the ability to obtain a US Government security clearance (Public Trust 5) within a reasonable period
- Market competitive salary, commensurate with experience and education
- Comprehensive benefits package available, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401K with company match, growth, and promotion opportunities
Notice on Candidate AI Usage
Metas Solutions is committed to maintaining a fair and competitive interview process for all candidates, based on their experience, skills, and education. To preserve the integrity and fairness of our interview process, candidates are expected to respond to all interview questions based on their own knowledge, skills, and experience. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools or other third-party resources to generate, assist with, or provide interview responses during phone, virtual, or in-person interviews is not permitted. Any use of AI-assisted responses during the interview process may result in disqualification from further consideration for employment.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote bioinformatics jobs.
- Proficiency in Python or R for biological data analysis and pipeline development
- Experience with next-generation sequencing data analysis and bioinformatics workflows
- Familiarity with version control systems such as Git and workflow managers like Snakemake or Nextflow
- Master's or PhD degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, or a related life sciences field
- Knowledge of statistical methods applied to genomics, proteomics, or transcriptomics datasets
- Experience working in Linux or Unix environments and with high-performance computing clusters
Tips for Your Remote Bioinformatics Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote bioinformatics openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your skills and apply directly without sorting through unrelated listings.
Show your pipelines, not just your skills
Remote employers can't watch you work, so a public GitHub with documented, reproducible workflows in Nextflow, Snakemake, or WDL is your most persuasive application asset. Annotate your code and include README files that explain your reasoning.
Demonstrate async communication in your application
Remote bioinformatics teams run on written communication. Write your cover letter and any take-home assessments as if your reader can't ask a follow-up question, because often they can't. Clarity and precision in writing are screened as hard as technical skills.
Highlight cloud and remote-computing experience
Remote bioinformatics roles frequently involve AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for large-scale genomic analysis. Calling out specific experience with cloud-based HPC, S3-hosted data, or containerized workflows signals you can operate without a local cluster.
Remote Bioinformatics Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote bioinformatics job?
Target companies with distributed research teams, such as remote-first biotechs and cloud-based genomics platforms, where asynchronous collaboration is built into how science gets done. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and documented pipeline work, so a public GitHub repository with reproducible workflows in Python, R, or Nextflow will carry more weight than credentials alone.
Which companies hire remote bioinformaticss?
Remote bioinformatics roles are posted by Axle, OMG Technology, and HELIX and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring tends to concentrate at remote-first biotech and genomics companies, distributed pharma research teams, and health-tech firms that operate without a central lab campus.
Can you get a remote bioinformatics job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal in-person onboarding. Remote-first startups and academic spinouts are the most open to early-career candidates. Showing a portfolio of end-to-end analyses, open-source contributions, or a well-documented capstone project can substitute for direct work history and open the door.
Do you need a degree for remote bioinformatics jobs?
Usually, but remote employers weigh demonstrated skills alongside formal credentials. A master's or Ph.D. is common for research-heavy roles, though some pipeline engineering and data-wrangling positions value proficiency in bioinformatics tools, cloud platforms, and version control over the degree itself. A strong portfolio of reproducible work can offset the absence of a graduate degree at some companies.
Which industries hire the most remote bioinformaticss?
The sectors hiring the most remote bioinformaticss are Technology & Software, Healthcare & Medical Services, and Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed research teams that can collaborate across time zones on shared data infrastructure without requiring bench access.
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