Data Engineer II – Philadelphia, PA

Job ID: 11845
Job date: 2017-07-16
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Company : Children s Hospital of Philadelphia 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
The Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b - d3b.center) is seeking talented engineers to build and scale solutions for accelerating discovery and advancements in child health. We’re looking for creative problem solvers that enjoy a dynamic continuous learning environment and excel at gaining new technical skills and domain specific knowledge. In the role of data engineer, you will join a team building software and infrastructure for handling both tera/petabyte-scale genomic data alongside associated smaller-scale, but often more complex, clinical data. Successful data engineers have a background in computer science and software engineering and are eager to empower data for researchers, clinicians, and patients. Experience with biomedical data and/or bioinformatics is beneficial, but not required.

Specific Responsibilities Include

Job Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and test software and applications
  • Write automated unit and functional tests of complex application logic while adhering to principles and best practices of containerization and continuous integration and deployment
  • Document code and generate appropriate technical and user documentation for software and applications
  • Manage all code, documentation, and issues in modern source control repositories
  • Manage projects and subprojects of increasing complexity within larger initiatives, identifying, tracking, and reporting on tasks and deliverables against project timelines
Job Responsibilities (Continued):

Required Education and Experience: BS/BA required

Required Experience With:

  • Python application development
  • Relational and/or non-relational database application development
  • Data modeling and schema design
  • Developing in Linux environments
  • Effective communication within a multidisciplinary team
Preferred Education, Experience & Cert/Lic:
  • Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack
  • Data frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Flink
  • Programming languages such as Scala, Java, C/C++, Go, Rust
  • Frontend and visualization frameworks and technologies such as React, Angular, Node, D3
  • Containerization, orchestration, and automation technologies such as Docker, Salt, Kubernetes
  • Agile software development methodologies
  • Biomedical / life sciences data


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Employment Status: AF - Active - Regular - Full Time

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