Role Summary / Context
We are seeking a skilled bioinformatician who is enthusiastic about developing and maintaining high-quality genome resources for microbial research communities to join the Ensembl Microbes team.
As part of the Ensembl project, Ensembl Microbes provides access to bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist genomes and their annotations to research communities worldwide.
We collaborate closely with bioinformaticians, software engineers and project leaders across Ensembl to manage data flows, increase the representation of microbial genomes, develop new features and annotations, and ensure reliable data delivery.
Ensembl Microbes is also part of EMBL-EBI’s Microbiome Informatics team, which develops the MGnify resource and AMR Portal, providing opportunities for collaboration on shared datasets and methods.
We are also active partners in international collaborations to support the annotation and dissemination of microbial genomes.
The Microbiome Informatics team is led by Rob Finn, who also oversees the Ensembl resource. You will report directly to Tatiana Gurbich,



the Microbial Genomes Project Lead.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain the microbial genomes in Ensembl, including identifying and loading new genome annotations, ensuring data is presented correctly, and diagnosing and resolving issues promptly
- Coordinate releases within a release-based environment, working closely with other Ensembl subteams
- Identify and assess new genome annotation tools, especially those that are specific to microbial taxa, to provide specific annotations that go beyond the default annotations provided by Ensembl
- Contribute to the development of our functional annotation pipelines and help shape representation of microbial functional annotations in Ensembl
- Design, build and test technical solutions to make processes more efficient
- Create and maintain clear, up to date documentation
- Contribute to code reviews and team meetings
- Interact with other

📌 Bioinformatician (Barcelona)
🏢 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
📍 Barcelona