Bioinformatics Scientist

Job title: Sr Scientist II, Biomedical Informatics

Location: Cambridge, MA
Duration: 14+ months (Possibly of extension)

JOB ROLE

·This position will be part of the informatics team within the Value Based
Medicine group at Client.

·As part of the team s/he will be responsible for
the development and management of a unique, multi-center, large-scale
ongoing real world data set comprising EHR, imaging, genetic and sensor-
based data in multiple sclerosis.

·Primary responsibilities of this position include:

1.Developing and managing the content curation pipeline for the
individual data types (EHR, imaging, genetic, and sensor-based)

2.Curation of data sets

3.Publication of versioned data sets for research use

4.Creating, maintaining and publishing documentation related to the
above

5.Liaising with the information technology groups to enhance and
further develop the data collection, management and distribution
infrastructure

6.Supporting ad hoc requests for data mining and analysis to aid
hypothesis generation for network participants

7.Creation, analysis and reporting of targeted data sets on an ad
hoc basis for operational purposes and to monitor the participant
network

8.Conducting directed research in the areas of learning healthcare
systems, data privacy, and biomedical informatics.

QUALIFICATIONS

·Deep expertise in several of the following: Bash, HTML5, PERL,
Python (required) and R (required)

·Proficiency with several of the following: distributed and high performance
computing, data visualization, data engineering, pipelining and wrangling tools (Tableau experience required)

·Experience in bioinformatics, medical informatics, clinical informatics,
imaging informatics or other forms of informatics highly desired

·Working knowledge of and experience with data management approaches e.g. relational databases, object stores, column
stores, triple stores, graph stores, document stores desired

·Experience working in cross-functional groups at the intersection
of data analytics and computational technologies desired

EDUCATION

·BA/BSc required, MS or PhD preferred