Research Software Architect Business & Information Technology Hours: M-F 8:30-5 Day Shift - Full Time Paygrade/Wages/Salary Info: EX E38 - 42.8500 - 53.8000
Position Highlights:# The Research Software Architect leads the development of informatics pipelines and database solutions for large bioinformatics data sets, particularly sequencing-based data sets. Development of software applications to process, load and reformat sequencing-based and other omics-based data sets for database loading. Development of new applications and tools for visualization of #omics# data within a database, with a focus on next-generation sequencing studies. Database loading, web-based visualization, and corresponding annotation of large-scale #omics data sets. The Ideal Candidate:# Experienced software development professional. The successful candidate will lead and review the development/informatics aspects of projects independently using appropriate tools and architectures. The candidate will perform intermediate and advanced requirements analysis, systems architecture and development for research projects. This position will collaborate independently with project teams and mentor junior research software developers. Responsibilities:# Leads software/database development projects, code and software artifacts (database and system design) independently. Leads gathering system requirements, developing complex databases and applications, building information logical data models, major entities, attributes, relationships and software components. Performs software/database development for specific projects independently. Provides database administration and support, system change management requests, monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, software modification, tool implementation and upgrades. Collaboratively engages faculty, staff and senior software developers for project initiation, development of scope of work and project rollout Must maintain accurate and appropriate records of software and database development, core usage and time management. Credentials and Qualifications: Master#s degree in computer science, informatics systems, health informatics, bioinformatics, medical informatics, or related field is required and a minimum of 7 years of experience in software development and database design or administration. Experience with Linux/Unix and scripting required. Good understanding of software development life cycle and architect design. Strong programming skills in object-oriented programming and design.# Excellent SQL/database development and optimization background. Experience with Oracle and MySQL databases, PL/SQL strongly preferred. Experience with REST APIs Experience with NoSQL databases Experience with mobile development preferred Experience with Cloud computing preferred Strong verbal and written communication skills. Experience working with biological data preferred. #