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  • [Photo] Corky Harris • January 6, 2009

    BACKGROUND

    SRA’s Global Health Sector is an international health services organization working across government and commercial markets, composed of three Strategic Business Units. These units provide professional services in a variety of areas, including drug development/clinical research (CRO); domestic public health services: laboratory sciences, epidemiology, health communications, disease surveillance, peer review, and information technology.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    We are currently recruiting a Text Mining Programmer, who will work with a small team of subject matter experts and software developers to respond to request and develop reporting information. Interaction with team members is critical for project coordination. This Text Mining Programmer position will work closely with both scientists and informatics staff to perform information retrieval tasks and reporting.

    REQUIREMENTS

    • Requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Biomedical Informatics.
    • Data management and reporting experience.
    • Experience with information retrieval and text processing strongly preferred.
    • One to two years of relevant professional experience. This requirement can be waived if the candidate is highly recommended by an academic advisor.
    • Expertise with SQL Server, Oracle or mySQL including experience with free text queries.
    • Proficiency in software development in multiple high-level languages such as Java, C++, Perl, and Python.
    • Understands lexical representation of text.
    • Exposed to text-mining or natural language processing libraries.
    • Ideally the Text Mining Programmer candidate will have a strong understanding of information retrieval, data management knowledge, scripting languages and text processing.
    • Experience with object-oriented software for Unix, Linux and MSWindows 9x/NT/2000 operating system environments is highly desirable.
    • Ideally, the candidate will also have experience with NIH grants administration process.
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills are required for working in this multidisciplinary environment.
    LOCALE: Bethesda, MD

    HOW TO APPLY

    Please visit our website at: http://www.sra.com/careers/

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