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Position Objective: Provide services as a Computer Programmer (Informatics Development) in support of the overall functions of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mission of Informatics is to produce data-driven decisions and accelerate translation through innovative informatics methods and software, and deep domain expertise in informatics and various translational research data types. Integration, curation, and public rendering to support analysis of various types of experimental and curated datasets. The development of custom workflows and new methodologies to help interpret complex, large-scale datasets, including clinical data. Maintenance, and deployment of cheminformatics and bioinformatics workflows/pipelines, web and mobile apps to disseminate our robust methods and data; bioinformatics and cheminformatics collaborative work with non-informaticians.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Examine analytical problems and pose feasible statistical solutions. 1

• Evaluate new analytic methods and software and adapt them if necessary. 2

• Work with staff to develop, test and refine novel programming methods, toolkits, and algorithms. 3

• Lead the establishment of best practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment, using technologies such as Jenkins, Travis, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud) 4

• Lead the design and implementation of features and expansion of the case reporting tool and explore functionality to accommodate a broader array of diseases, such as cancer and rare conditions, based on FDA prioritization input. This includes coordinating the back-end to support front-end requirements. 5

• Use advanced knowledge in machine learning, statistics, text mining, natural language processing, computational semantics, computer vision, and data science to develop creative solutions to complex real-world problems.

• Develop scientific applications using R, Shiny and/or Python.

• Install software testing programs on datasets to identify issues and propose solutions.

• Test and maintain software products to ensure strong functionality and optimization.

• Develop or utilize new or existing technology to develop dynamic web applications or software tools for bioinformatics application.

• Test and install the software updates.

• Collaborate with staff to develop database application and tools for supporting bioinformatics and scientific computing research projects.

• Prepare roadmaps, schedules, status reports, plans and recommendations.

• Generate and run appropriate database queries needed for Quarterly Progress Reports.

• Maintain and follow SOPs, configuration management, upgrades and availability.

• Provide feasibility studies and research for compatibility and ease of scientific databases use by researchers for extensive scientific data analyses.

• Prepare roadmaps, schedules, status reports, plans and recommendations.

• Maintain and follow SOPs, configuration management, upgrades and availability.

• Design, develop and deploy software for multi-core and high-performance computing systems.

• Troubleshoot scripts and programs to ensure successful use of said scripts and programs.

• Document in-house software for training and reference purposes.

• Provide support for development of methods in data science.

• Implement improvements to development activities to speed development of applications, databases, or software tools.

• Manage and troubleshoot deployments and image builds.

• Develop new code and refine/troubleshoot existing code.

• Troubleshoot scripts and programs to ensure successful use of said scripts and programs.

• Work with staff on applying, extending and/or developing statistical methods to address problems identified by the staff of relevance to the project.

• Run Validation - Ad-HocMeet with lab members to present updates.

  Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Programming and Data Processing or a related discipline.

• Skilled in Code management using Github, including working with multiple branches and forks, Reviewing Github merge requests as a feedback loop, Merging code in Github.

• Experience managing tasks in JIRA, including creating tickets, providing timeline updates to tickets, working with testers in a regular feedback loop to closure.

• Experience Cloud Computing including AWS, Google, etc.

• Experience documenting design and tests / MS Office Suite; creating documentation deliverables such as: presentations, guides, testing plans and reports.

• Experience with Requirements tracking, Data Modeling, and Database Management.

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to multi-task and pay close attention to detail.

• Excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills.

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

  *This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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  This position is contingent upon contract award.

Requisition ID: 7026