IT AnalystProgrammer 2 (Haendel)

Position Summary
The Department of Genetics invites applications for an IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) in the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory (). This IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) position will join a highly interactive supportive and interdisciplinary group of faculty staff scientists postdoctoral fellows and students. The IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) position will contribute to the Department of Genetics and TISLabs diverse portfolio of research including grant-funded programs potential commercialization opportunities of developed software and transdisciplinary and trans-institutional partnerships. The IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) will provide IT/software engineering support leading the development of and contributing to semantic pipelines and algorithms data models ontologies and semantic data harmonization and integration strategies for a variety of translational research contexts including the following data types: clinical research variables basic research experiments imaging metadata genotype-phenotype data expression and other omics data. Other responsibilities of the IT Analyst/Programmer (Semantic Engineer) include technical contribution to research publications and preliminary work for grants and funding applications and collaborations with community-wide efforts aimed at promoting open integrated and rigorous practices in research data engineering and scholarly communication. TISLab focuses on areas such as automated and manual bio data curation knowledge representation semantic engineering automated reasoning and the development and evaluation of algorithms and software systems that advance these practices in support of artificial intelligence. Flexible work arrangements including virtual/hybrid work locations are an integral part of the School of Medicines Working Forward initiative. As such this positions work location is designated as virtual. Please note that the designated work location is subject to change based on the units business needs.

Required Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Experience in semantic data engineering.

Preferred Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Experience implementing informatics/bioinformatics pipelines and export of human interpretable format(s) (graphs/figures tables etc); processing analysis and display Experience in engineering and graph database work. Experience programming in Python and deploy Jupyter notebooks. Experience working independently and openly on GitHub. Education within computer science clinical informatics biomedical informatics biosciences or a related field. Experience working with one or more of the following: Graph databases Triplestores Ontologies Semantic data models or other semantic technologies. Experience in the collection storage transformation standardization harmonization and analysis of legacy data stored in a variety of formats (e.g. OWL RDF JSON -LD JSON Python SPARQL and/or graph query languages such as Cypher relational databases such as MySQL PostgreSQL SQL Server Oracle Triplestores or other semantic technologies). Experience with software development and project management tools and file version control systems (e.g. Git/GitHub Jira Confluence). Experience with web application and user interface development using semantic technologies and/or deploying semantic artifacts in the context of software system architecture design and implementation Experience modeling and managing semantically annotated data. Experience developing and evaluating data curation workflows data quality and validation according to semantic standards. Experience managing technical aspects of informatics/information science projects