Informatics Engineer

Company: Ascent Services Group
Location: San Rafael
Posted on: June 20, 2020

Job Description:

Job Title: Informatics Engineer (Computing Solutions Lead)Location: San Rafael, CAJob Type: 6-month ContractSUMMARYOur Biotech client headquartered in San Rafael, CA seeks a highly talented and motivated Informatics Engineer to support the company's research and scientific computing teams. This contractor will have the opportunity to partner closely with both IT professionals and scientists from multiple groups across the organization, playing a key role in evaluating, designing, developing and maintaining software systems and analytics pipelines for scientific projects. A strong candidate will have a successful track record implementing, maintaining and/or working with bioinformatics software and scientific workflow systems in Linux ecosystem. Experience with pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical fields will be highly preferred. Our client is a high-performing, team-based organization, where colleagues are flexible, multi-skilled and empowered to make decisions. Applicants must bring a high level of initiative, energy and motivation to the role and have excellent communication and organizational skills.RESPONSIBILITIES Contribute to the development and on-going support of informatics applications with the overall goal delivering new capabilities to scientists. Collaborate with scientists to define requirements; develop efficient, well-engineered solutions; and communicate methods and results for scientific problems. Develop and communicate best practices for scientific software development and data management. Evaluate and deliver emerging technologies for scientific projects and future initiatives. Prioritize and coordinate with external contractors for development of specific projects or components. Champion the use of automation, CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment), workflow, and cloud technologies within scientific domains. Assist in authoring of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and analysis supporting documentation and tests (e.g., requirements, architectures & configurations, unit tests, data catalogs, module and training documentation). Collaborate with system platforms teams to manage and maintain existing scientific applications. Possibly assist with off-hours monthly maintenance patching and updating activities as related to scientific and analytical applications or similar systems. This role is located in San Rafael and Novato, CA, United States. SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Minimum 3 years work experience and a BS in computer science, informatics, or software engineering field. Demonstrated experience developing computational solutions to scientific problems. Familiarity with or working knowledge of bioinformatics, genomics, or statistical genetics domains. Experience applying software engineering best practices (e.g., source code control, test driven development). Experience working with in a Linux/Unix command line environment. Experience working with HPC schedulers (e.g. SLURM) and/or scientific or analytic workflow systems Expert level programming experience with Python; experience with PySpark preferred. Familiarity with shell scripting, development operations (DevOps) technologies and cloud technologies (e.g. S3, RDS, EC2). Familiarity working with database server and big data platforms (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Hive, Spark). Familiarity with backend web applications in Python or NodeJS. Frontend development (e.g. CSS JavaScript) a plus. A strong communicator who can speak effectively to technical and non-technical audiences. Able to prioritize and deliver results with a high emphasis on quality, technical rigor and detail. Experiences with software testing and performance profiling is preferred.EDUCATIONMinimum B.S. or greater in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences or a related technical field with prior work experience.WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe employee may frequently be required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilitiesContactZak HornungTechnical Recruiter312-964-4168 About Ascent: The Ascent Services Group (ASG) is a nationally recognized technology staffing and consulting firm whose fundamental business is providing staffing services to Small, Medium, and Large Enterprise clients in our core market verticals: Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology and Life Sciences. As consultants for ASG, you will have access to many of the top clients within the industries we serve. Our goal is to deliver innovative talent through proven best practices and effective resource optimization. Become one of ASG's candidates and experience the difference!Job Requirements:SDL2017

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