Essential Duties & Responsibilities (include but are not limited to)
a) Maintain epidemiological and laboratory data by using SAS and as well as other data management software packages (e.g. R, REDCap, Microsoft Access, Excel, EpiInfo);
b) Support the design, development, and implementation of surveillance tools to collect epidemiologic data;
c) Convert existing datasets from a diverse array of file formats (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL, and ASCII files) into SAS datasets.
d) Design, program, test, modify, enhance, maintain and support new surveillance applications to collect epidemiological data.
e) Develop scripts and software for data manipulation, cleaning, analysis and visualization (using programming languages such as Python, R, BASH, and SQL).
f) Develop bioinformatics pipelines using parallel programming capabilities through workflow tools, including Snakemake or Nextflow, on Linux-based high-performance computing environments.
g) Transform data sources into appropriate file formats for bioinformatics/epidemiological studies.
h) Conduct data mining and data curation from public sequence databases to support bioinformatics and molecular epidemiological analyses.
i) Work with and/or develop dashboarding tools, including Power BI, Tableau, and R Shiny, to manage and visualize laboratory and epidemiological data.
j) Submit monthly progress report, detailing achievements and progress on sub-tasks a-i. Also please indicate project obstacles that need to be overcome.
Minimum qualifications:
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- A master’s degree in computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, life sciences, public health, or other relevant studies.
- Core experience with analysis of biological datasets encountered in studies of infectious disease (sequencing, protein, phenotype, or other relevant data types).
- Experience with selection/evaluation of computational approaches to perform analyses of biomedical data.
- Experience with interpretation, reporting and documentation of computational analyses over biological datasets.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $90,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
