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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.

    Overview:
    The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute seeks 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 Bioinformatics Engineer is 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.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    The Bioinformatics Engineer will be responsible for:
    • Designing and architecting all new software platforms within the Knowledge
    • Systems and Data Science group
    • Leading engineering efforts for all new software platforms
    • Leading engineering efforts for multiple open source projects, including cbioportal.org and oncoblocks.org
    • Staying abreast of new technologies and data science advances that may impact future work within the group, and setting an overall strategy for adoption of new technologies
    • Maintaining best practices and industry standards for all bioinformatics software developed within the group
    • Representing the Knowledge Systems and Data Science Group across Dana-Faber and with external collaborations
    • Mentoring bioinformatics engineers within the group

    REQUIREMENTS

    • Bachelor's degree, Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a related field
    • 3-5 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

    TERMS

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

    HOW TO APPLY

    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.

    Apply Here: http://www.Click2Apply.net/x88wwzx

    Job ID: 26771
    Date Posted: 07/01/2015

    POLICY

    Equal Employment Opportunity

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