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BACKGROUND

About Dana-Farber:
Located in Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Overview:
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute seeks Senior Bioinformatics Engineer to lead the development of multiple open source data mining and analytics platforms for precision (or "personalized") cancer medicine.

If you:

dream of big data
enjoy building big, complex software systems
thrive working within a creative team of scientists and engineers
want to contribute to open source,
want to use your skills to make a positive impact on cancer care, and
want to take a leadership role at the ground floor of multiple new initiatives.

... we want to talk with you.

The Senior Bioinformatics Engineers an exceptional candidate who has both deep bioinformatics experience and extensive software architecture experience. We operate at the crossroads of cancer genomics, software, and data science and are looking for that rare individual who has experience and passion for all three.
Our platforms are focused on mining of cancer genomic data sets, understanding resistance to targeted therapy, matching genomic profiles to clinical trials, and
identifying exceptional responders to targeted therapy. Technical and scientific challenges for the platform include data mining and visualization of large-scale
cancer genomic data sets, extracting information from natural language text and building web-based data analytics platforms.

REQUIREMENTS

Required skills:

Bachelor's degree, Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a related field.
5+ years of bioinformatics software engineering experience, preferably in the cancer genomics space.
Expert knowledge of Java and Spring.
Strong interest in contributing to biological research with clinical applications.
Experience in modern software development technologies, including distributed versioning systems, continuous integration, and Agile programming practices.
Data science expertise, including statistical analysis and data mining.

Desirable skills:
Any of the following would be significant plusses: NoSQL database experience, especially MongoDB. Cloud computing, e.g. Amazon, Google Compute, or
Digital Ocean. Any cloud devop framework experience, such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible. Natural language processing and/or handling of cancer genomics data sets, especially those generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. User interaction design and data visualization. Experienced knowledge of Javascript and any modern Javascript library, such as JQuery, Angular or D3.

For additional background regarding the Knowledge Systems Group at DFCI, please see: http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/knowledge-systems/

TERMS

Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Schedule: Standard business hours. Monday - Friday, 8:30-5:00.

HOW TO APPLY

For consideration, please submit a resume and cover letter.

Please apply directly online at http://www.dana-farber.org/Careers/Careers-at-Dana-Farber.aspx. Click Search Job Openings and use the Job ID number to quickly locate the appropriate job listing. Once you have located the desired job, click on the checkbox in the 'Select' column, and then click the 'Apply Now' button, located at the bottom of the screen.

DFCI Employees please apply directly through PeopleSoft Self Service. Sign on to PeopleSoft and navigate to Main Menu > DFCI Careers.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.

Apply Here : http://www.Click2Apply.net/4jw5787wf3

Job ID: 26954
Date Posted: 08/11/2015
Location: Center for Life Sciences
Job Family: Bioinformatics

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DEADLINE: November 20, 2015

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