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Posted: 28-Apr-23
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 2022-26004
Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
The Department of Informatics and Analytics (I&A) at Dana-Farber has multiple openings for highly motivated bioinformatics software or data engineers who are passionate about the potential for molecular data to inform clinical care of cancer patients and the groundbreaking discoveries that are a product of genomic data integration and analysis. The qualified candidate will work on an exciting initiative to build a cloud-based bioinformatics analysis platform. The platform will enable researchers at DFCI to easily manage their genomic and biomedical data in the cloud environment, select and kick off containerized NGS analysis workflows, monitor the execution status and eventually visualize the results. The successful candidate is expected to collaborate with functional teams such as Bioinformatics and Data Engineering, and cloud and other technology vendors.
- Integrate a wide variety of tested computational tools and pipelines into cloud environment
- Actively participate in designing scalable, highly available, secure, cost-effective cloud-based solutions
- Collaborate with bioinformaticians and engineers to containerize new or existing analysis pipelines and make pipelines portable on both on-prem high-performance computing and cloud environments
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable pipeline workflows to automate multi-step computing tasks required for various data analysis scenarios
- Develop and maintain the automated tests and monitoring process to ensure the successful pipeline execution and deployment
- Assist product management for the documentation of the system requirements, design, and troubleshooting
- Provide technical support to end users for pipeline deployment and execution
- Apply industry best practices and act as an advocate for coding standards and test-driven development
- Mentor new team members
Qualifications:
- Bachelor???s degree required, MS preferred, in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
- Demonstrated proficiency with Python, R, Perl and/or other languages
- Experience with data analysis in cloud environment, especially Microsoft Azure
- Proficient with Linux environment, shell scripting, and command line tools
- Experience with software development and Agile process is a strong plus
SKA???s:
- Enthusiastic about data security, process automation, and innovation
- Familiar with distributed code versioning tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- Detail oriented with ability to gain deep understanding of technical systems??
- Excellent interpersonal skills, passionate about innovative solutions
- Familiarity with bioinformatics workflow management such as Cromwell and Nextflow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.
