Part-time Scientific Software Engineer; Consultant

Responsibilities

• Front-End Development:
  Maintain and enhance data capture and ingestion systems, tracking, and management interfaces. Contribute to new data collection features to improve user experience and operational efficiency.
• Data Support:
  Support cloud-based and on-premise data transfers from our data stores to both internal and external customers/patients. Help automate routine tasks and ensure data workflows are optimized to reduce operational costs and support data lifecycle management, including retention policies, automated archiving, and cleanup processes.
• Workflow Management:
  Ensure Production Cromwell workflows operate smoothly. Troubleshoot issues, resubmit workflows, tune performance, anticipate workflow bottlenecks, provide Cromwell patches, and contribute to Cromwell Dev/Ops improvements.
• Technical Debt & Modernization:
  Address technical debt within the software engineering codebase by migrating to modern solutions when requested. Seek opportunities to streamline processes and reduce long-term maintenance costs.
• Proactive Problem-Solving:
  Identify technical hurdles and recommend solutions to the software engineering team.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:
  Work with Project Management, Resource Computing, Computational Biologists, Clinical Molecular Diagnostics, and other stakeholders on data access, delivery, workflows, analysis tools, and user-facing data collection interfaces.

• Education & Experience:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 2 or more years of relevant experience.

• Support Responsiveness:
  Demonstrated ability to communicate promptly and clearly on all support tickets, identify incomplete or unclear requests, set expectations, and proactively flag potential issues or delays.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Experience with front-end frameworks, Python, Terraform/Terragrunt, Scala, and various database systems. Skilled in troubleshooting, maintaining, enhancing, and modernizing existing applications.
• Escalation Awareness:
  Strong judgment in recognizing when an issue requires escalation to management or senior engineers, such as recurring problems, cross-department dependencies, or blockers impacting timelines.
• Task Management:
  Able to efficiently balance support requests with ongoing system maintenance and enhancement work, managing frequent context switches without sacrificing quality or timeliness.
• Process & Standards Compliance:
  Commitment to established team and project standards, including writing clean, maintainable, and DRY (Don t Repeat Yourself) code, adhering to source control best practices (e.g., Git), and responding promptly to code review feedback to ensure rapid turnaround time. Consistent use of Jira for issue tracking and status updates.
• Adaptability & Decision-Making:
  Make sound decisions with incomplete information. Balance multiple tasks and produce meaningful results in a fast-paced support environment.

• Technical and Professional
  
  Skills:
  
  Consistently demonstrates skills and knowledge relevant for current role; strives to expand the depth and breadth of technical and professional skills; works with a high level of integrity; exhibits focus and discipline; appropriately prioritizes, manages expectations and delivers on commitments.
• Collaborative & Communicative:
  Models collaboration and teamwork; brings out the best in others; effectively works with all levels, internally and externally; respects and embraces diversity of perspective; communicates clearly and listens carefully; uses good judgment as to what to communicate and when to do so.
• Adaptable & Innovative:
  Adaptable and embraces change; develops new insights and pursues improvements and efficiency; fosters exchange of new ideas and willing to challenge the status quo; takes initiative and is solution-oriented; engages in work with passion and curiosity.

NYGC has established a flexible work policy to give employees and other staff more ability to balance their work, personal commitments, and commuting challenges. The incumbent in this position is eligible for a flexible work schedule or hybrid remote work arrangement with supervisory approval. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

The pay range for this position is $55-$75 per hour; the hourly rate offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is an independent, nonprofit, academic research organization dedicated to advancing genomic research. NYGC scientists and staff are furthering new approaches to diagnosing and treating neurological diseases and cancer through their unique capabilities in whole genome sequencing, RNA sequencing, state-of-the-art analytics, and the development of genomic tools. NYGC concentrates specifically on disease-based research in the following areas: neuropsychiatric disease (autism, schizophrenia, bipolar);

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