Data Engineer
Black Canyon Consulting9 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain programs supporting NCBI biomedical data resources.
- Implement efficient bioinformatic algorithms.
- Develop cloud-ready tools and pipelines to improve the performance and scalability of searching and submitting genetic sequence data.
- Work with large-scale biomedical and genomic datasets, including data hosted across cloud providers and NCBI servers.
- Support production workflows for online public databases.
- Use unit, integration, and regression testing practices.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python.
- Experience with MS SQL Server and relational database design and optimization.
- Programming experience in a Linux environment and with shell scripts such as Bash.
- Experience handling large amounts of data.
- Ability to work with structured documents such as XML or JSON.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and unit, integration, and regression testing.
- Preferred experience with AWS or GCP cloud technologies.
- Preferred 5+ years of experience working with genetic and biological data.
- Familiarity with NGS computational tools and formats such as BWA, GATK, and Galaxy.
- Active involvement in open-source communities such as GitHub.
- Experience managing production workflows for online public databases.
- Experience with RESTful API design.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution.
- Paid holidays and vacation.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Full-time position at NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland.
Categories
Data Engineering
About Black Canyon Consulting
Black Canyon Consulting is a privately held, woman-owned IT and program management services firm that delivers contract support to U.S. federal research and health agencies. The company provides systems engineering, custom software, bioinformatics, and project management through government contracts and IDIQ vehicles; it was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. Recent roles support the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the NIH/NLM.