Dana-Farber Cancer Institute : Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

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Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, Massachusetts (US)DOE

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Job ID: 26954
Date Posted: 08/11/2015
Location: Center for Life Sciences
Job Family: Bioinformatics
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
About Dana-Farber

Located in Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.


Overview

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute seeks Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
 to lead the development of multiple open source data mining and analytics
platforms for precision (or "personalized") cancer medicine.


If you:

 dream of big data  enjoy building big, complex software systems  thrive working within a creative team of scientists and engineers  want to contribute to open source,  want to use your skills to make a positive impact on cancer care, and  want to take a leadership role at the ground floor of multiple new initiatives.

… we want to talk with you.


The Senior Bioinformatics Engineers an exceptional candidate who has
both deep bioinformatics experience and extensive software architecture experience.
We operate at the crossroads of cancer genomics, software, and data science and are
looking for that rare individual who has experience and passion for all three.
Our platforms are focused on mining of cancer genomic data sets, understanding
resistance to targeted therapy, matching genomic profiles to clinical trials, and
identifying exceptional responders to targeted therapy. Technical and scientific
challenges for the platform include data mining and visualization of large-scale
cancer genomic data sets, extracting information from natural language text and building
web-based data analytics platforms.


Required skills:

Bachelor's degree, Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a related field. 5+ years of bioinformatics software engineering experience, preferably in the cancer genomics space. Expert knowledge of Java and Spring. Strong interest in contributing to biological research with clinical applications. Experience in modern software development technologies, including distributed versioning systems, continuous integration, and Agile programming practices. Data science expertise, including statistical analysis and data mining.

Desirable skills: Any of the following would be significant plusses: NoSQL database
experience, especially MongoDB. Cloud computing, e.g. Amazon, Google Compute, or
Digital Ocean. Any cloud devop framework experience, such as Chef, Puppet or
Ansible. Natural language processing and/or handling of cancer genomics data sets,
especially those generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. User
interaction design and data visualization. Experienced knowledge of Javascript and any
modern Javascript library, such as JQuery, Angular or D3.

For additional background regarding the Knowledge Systems Group at DFCI, please see:  http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/knowledge-systems/

 


Schedule

 

Standard business hours.

Monday - Friday, 8:30-5:00.

 

For consideration, please submit a resume and cover letter.

 


How to Apply

 

Please apply directly online at http://www.dana-farber.org/Careers/Careers-at-Dana-Farber.aspx. Click Search Job Openings and use the Job ID number to quickly locate the appropriate job listing. Once you have located the desired job, click on the checkbox in the 'Select' column, and then click the 'Apply Now' button, located at the bottom of the screen.

DFCI Employees please apply directly through PeopleSoft Self Service.  Sign on to PeopleSoft and navigate to Main Menu > DFCI Careers.

 


Equal Employment Opportunity

 

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.

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