IT Analyst​/Programmer Haendel

Position Summary

The Department of Genetics invites applications for an IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) in the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory (TISLab.org). This position will join a highly interactive, supportive, and interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students. The IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) will provide IT/software engineering support, leading the development of and contributing to semantic pipelines and algorithms, data models, ontologies, and semantic data harmonization and integration strategies for a variety of translational research contexts, including clinical research variables, basic research experiments, imaging metadata, genotype‑phenotype data, expression, and other ‘omics data.

Other responsibilities include technical contribution to research publications and preliminary work for grants and funding applications, and collaborations with community‑wide efforts aimed at promoting open, integrated, and rigorous practices in research, data engineering, and scholarly communication. Flexible work arrangements, including virtual/hybrid work locations, are an integral part of the School of Medicine’s Working Forward initiative. The position’s work location is designated as virtual.

Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics, or Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Semantic Web Science, or other closely related area.

Experience in semantic data engineering.

• Experience implementing informatics/bioinformatics pipelines and export of human interpretable format(s) (graphs/figures, tables, etc…); processing, analysis, and display.
• Experience in engineering and graph database work.
• Experience programming in Python and deploying Jupyter notebooks.
• Experience working independently and openly on Git Hub.
• Experience working with one or more of the following:
  Graph databases, Triplestores, Ontologies, Semantic data models or other semantic technologies.
• Experience in the collection, storage, transformation, standardization, harmonization, and analysis of legacy data stored in a variety of formats (e.g., OWL, RDF, JSON-LD, JSON, Python, SPARQL, and/or graph query languages such as Cypher, relational databases such as MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Triplestores, or other semantic technologies).
• Experience with software development and project management tools, and file version control systems (e.g., Git/Git Hub, Jira, Confluence).
• Experience with web application and user interface development using semantic technologies and/or deploying semantic artifacts in the context of software system architecture, design, and implementation.
• Experience modeling and managing semantically annotated data.
• Experience developing and evaluating data curation workflows, data quality, and validation according to semantic standards.
• Experience managing technical aspects of informatics/information science projects.

Not Applicable.