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Base Salary
$125k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain, enhance, secure, and modernize NCI’s Scientific Coding System, Scientific Managers Analysis and Reporting Tool, and NCI Funded Research Portfolio.
- Troubleshoot production issues, application errors, performance problems, and system outages.
- Develop, test, debug, and deploy software fixes, upgrades, and system enhancements.
- Support web applications, databases, servers, interfaces, backup environments, and third-party components.
- Integrate, validate, import, export, and migrate data across NIH and NCI systems.
- Customize data downloads and reporting processes for scientific portfolio analysis, grant reporting, and year-end activities.
- Maintain and modify IRDB and NCI I2E process scripts in response to changes in eRA, IMPAC II, and related data structures.
- Monitor application logs, alerts, and performance metrics and recommend improvements.
- Support configuration, change, release, backup, recovery, and continuity-of-operations processes.
- Remediate vulnerabilities identified through HHS and NCI security scans and ensure compliance with federal security requirements and FIPS standards.
- Develop scripts and automation to improve system reliability, data processing, and administrative workflows.
- Provide elevated support during production deployments, year-end reporting, and other critical operational periods.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Extensive experience developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining complex software applications using multiple programming languages.
- Advanced experience with data management, database analysis, system integration, and data validation.
- Experience supporting production applications in a multi-user environment.
- Functional knowledge of NIH grants management and budget-reporting processes.
- Knowledge of NIH IMPAC II and NCI I2E DM database structures, including extramural grant and funding data.
- Experience configuring and maintaining IRDB and NCI I2E scripts used for Institute- or Center-specific grant-data downloads.
- Experience with application upgrades, configuration management, testing, deployment, and release management.
- Knowledge of federal information-security requirements, FIPS standards, secure software-development practices, and vulnerability remediation.
- Ability to work onsite at NCI Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland, approximately one to two days per week.
- Availability for occasional after-hours support during deployments and year-end reporting.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- 401(k) match up to 5%.
- Educational benefits for career growth.
- Employee referral bonus.
- Healthcare, parking reimbursement, dependent care, and transportation flexible spending accounts.
- Hybrid logistics require onsite work at NCI Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland, approximately one to two days per week.
- Occasional after-hours support is required during deployments and year-end reporting.
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About Axle
Axle is a bioscience and information technology services firm delivering translational research, bioinformatics, data science, and health informatics solutions for research centers and healthcare organizations. It provides contract research, software engineering, and scientific staffing, developing and operating tools and programs that support decision-making and discovery. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, the company is privately held and works with multiple institutes at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.