Data Engineer
Black Canyon Consulting· Staffing/Consulting· Jan 11, 2022 · 58mo agoPosted 1,750 days ago
NIH-Bethesda
In office
Full-time
Senior
$140K–$198K est.
5+ years exp
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Job description
Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for Data Engineer(s) to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.
The NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI is the world's premier biomedical center hosting over six million daily users seeking research, clinical, genetic, and other information impacting biomedical research and public health. At NCBI, you can literally help accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI's wide range of applications, platforms (node, python, Django, C++, you name it), and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency, according to analytics.usa.gov .
We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
Job Description
There are multiple openings. You will work with a talented group of scientists and software developers to design, develop, test, and maintain programs for NCBI's world's premier biomedical data resources, with examples below -
PubMed - with 33+ million biomedical literature and 5+ million daily users
GenBank - with over 12 trillion nucleotide bases. A part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), exchanging data with the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ) and the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) daily.
SRA - The Sequence Read Archive(SRA), the largest publicly available repository of high-throughput sequencing data, available in multiple cloud providers and NCBI servers, also part of International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC).
ClinicalTrials.gov - providing access to both privately and publicly funded clinical trial studies around the world
Specific tasks may include implementing efficient bioinformatic algorithms, and facilitating the development of cloud-ready tools and pipelines to improve the performance and scalability of searching in and submitting to the more than ten terabytes of genetic sequence data at NCBI.
Required Skills
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
Desired Skills
Experience with Cloud technologies:
AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda
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
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