Senior Analyst/Programmer - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Description:
The Analyst/Programmer II in the Translational Informatics Unit at the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) develops and implements innovative software and applications that solve challenging problems in the collection, management, analysis and interpretation of biomedical, genomic and clinical data.
The successful candidate will create and contribute to DBHi open source projects (<a href="http://github.com/chop-dbhi" >) as well as proprietary products such as mobile health applications and implementations of data science algorithms. We are looking for highly creative people who share our mission to advance child health and who will thrive in a continuous learning environment, acquiring and applying both new technical skills and biomedical domain knowledge. Specifically, the Analyst/Programmer II will:
- Independently develop, test and rollout translational informatics software and application solutions.
- Create re-usable open source and proprietary software and application products
- Evaluate, adopt and use multiple technologies to create innovative solutions that have a high impact on data-intensive clinical and translational research.
- Continuously learn about a wide variety of biomedical domains in order to translate domain requirements into high-impact technical solutions.
- Work independently and as part of a project team in a highly matrixed research environment, including direct interaction with clinicians and biomedical researchers.
- Contribute to the development, evolution, and implementation of software development methodologies that are optimized to a biomedical research setting.
Requirements:
- BS/BA required, Masters preferred in computer science, biomedical engineering, information science, or related field. Substitute years of relevant experience for specific field.
- Three to eight years of programming experience with progressively more complex projects.
- Demonstrated track record of continuous learning and adoption of new languages and frameworks.
- Working knowledge of more than one of the following preferred: Python/Django, JavaScript/HTML (as used in Single Page Applications), Go, Java, Objective C, Cache/Mumps, Scala
- Working knowledge of relational and/or non-relational database application development preferred.
- Previous experience in data modeling is preferred.
- Experience in healthcare and/or biomedical, genomic data management issues is preferred.
- Experience with mobile application (native or web) on Android and/or iOS is preferred
- Must exhibit excellent oral, presentation, and written communication skills. Experience with continuous integration, containerization, and automated testing tools and processes is preferred.
Posting:
- <a href="https://www.chop.edu.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&amp;RID=35361&amp;CurrentPage=1" >
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