Data Engineer

The role

You will work with scientists and software developers to design, develop, test, and maintain programs for biomedical data resources. Tasks include implementing bioinformatic algorithms and developing cloud-ready tools and pipelines for genetic sequence data.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain programs for biomedical data resources
• Implement efficient bioinformatic algorithms
• Facilitate development of cloud-ready tools and pipelines to improve performance and scalability of searching and submitting genetic sequence data

Required qualifications

• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with MS SQL server and relational database design and optimization
• Programming experience in a Linux environment and shell scripts such as BASH
• Experience in handling large amounts of data
• Ability to work with common structured documents (at least one of XML, JSON)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration, and regression testing

Nice to have

• Experience with Cloud technologies: AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda
• Experience with Cloud technologies: GCP: GKE, Google Store, Cloud functions
• 5+ years of working with genetic and biological data
• Familiarity with NGS computational tools and formats (BWA, GATK, Galaxy, etc.)
• Demonstrated active involvement into open source communities (github, etc.)
• Experience managing production workflow of an online public databases
• Experience with RESTful API design

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan with employer contribution
• paid holidays
• vacation
• tuition reimbursement

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) supports work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health.