BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Within the first 30 days, you will work to understand, monitor, and push forward the current bioinformatics projects underway that are ongoing in the SRA team for CDC.
• On an ongoing basis, consult with CDC clients on design and implementation of bioinformatics analyses and tools as well as software solutions.
• Lead SRA's bioinformatics and development team working at the SRA office and at the CDC client site.
• Provide collaborative decision-making approaches for determining the best bioinformatics methods to be used, and mentor the team to effectively implement these methods in a timely manner.
• Provide leadership in development and implementation of SOA based approaches for deployment of bioinformatics tools and scientific application development
• Track and report progress on scientific projects to the CDC, successfully coordinating information from Principal Investigator client meetings and SRA internal infrastructure.
• Prioritize implementation of projects based on urgency of public health needs and the availability of appropriate resources.
• Handle additional project management tasks; including financial and contractual project management tasks such as: tracking budgets and generating monthly invoicing; tracking task work, and creating biweekly and quarterly reports, etc.
• Share new bioinformatics conclusions with the scientific community by participating with CDC and SRA team members in publishing results of scientific insights derived from bioinformatics analyses.
• Attend and present at relevant scientific conferences on project status and progress, sharing insights with CDC and SRA team members.
• Actively participate in working sessions with CDC scientists, suggesting analytic and development approaches.
• Lead the CDC and SRA to utilize the most current techniques and methods in bioinformatics to support public health needs.
• Work collaboratively with other SRA contract teams to affect efficiencies as possible.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors and 6+ years related experience (or equivalent combination of higher education and experience)
• Experience in current bioinformatics / computational biology with hands-on knowledge in manipulating and analyzing High Throughput Data (especially Next Generation Sequence data and its analysis), comparative genomics, and/or phylogenetic analysis tools and techniques; and building systems to support these data flows and/or utilizing.
• Proven hands-on experience performing leading edge bioinformatics analysis and development, both individually and by directing a team.
• Experience in or leading teams in scientific application development
• Familiarity with contemporary enterprise integration patterns and Service Oriented Architecture, particularly as they may be applied to bioinformatics tool and scientific application development.
• Some Programming experience in one or more of the following languages Perl, Python, R, C, C++, Oracle, MySQL or other relational databases, or related technologies.
• Familiarity with biocomputing issues, with HPC clusters, cloud, etc.
• Experience managing a team of scientists and/or engineers, directing their research projects through suggestion of bioinformatics approaches and coaching.
• Experience to discuss scientific concepts effectively with other researchers
• Proven project management experience to monitor and drive progress of scientific research projects and/or software development projects to completion.

PREFERENCES

• Masters or PhD is strongly preferred
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience with financial forecasting, invoicing, and budgeting
• Experience with pathogens, especially bacterial
• Experience with public health issues.
• Experience with CDC and/or the CDC EPLC process.
• Commercial software development or large-scale genomics core experience would be very helpful, as would be exposure to industrial bioinformatics.
• PMP or Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is a plus

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