Senior Software Engineer - NIH - Rockville, MD job vacancy

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Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking an experienced individual to work as a Senior Software Engineer at the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland. This is a long-term contract position which offers:

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package
Optional health, vision, and dental plans
Vacation leave as well as 10 paid federal holidays and 401K plan.
Access to NIH's unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives

TASKS/SERVICES. The contractor shall:

Design, build, and maintain data models and back-end infrastructure to support two NCATS DPI Informatics projects: Global Substance Registration System GSRS https:gsrsncatsnihgov and NCATS Biomedical Data Translator https:ncatsnihgovtranslator for the Translator Autonomous Relay System ARS
Design, build, and maintain web-based applications for internal NCATS software development projects as well as external applications in collaboration with other organizations specifically the integration infrastructure for other Translator components and the GSRS web-based application
Design and develop algorithms to interrogate and integrate knowledge graphs from multiple components into a coherent answer graph for the Translator ARS
Work with staff on technical reviews and evaluations of vendor software in support of informatics
Maintain the labs software projects, including associated websites, documentation, code repositories, releases and improvements
Develop Standard Operating Procedures SOPs to detail all steps and activities carried out for all aspects of the program data management
Provide written technical descriptions of implemented algorithms; contribute to the publication of the labs software and research
Work with staff on writing formal research plans for various types of projects within DPI
Work with staff on writing grant applications for various types of projects within DPI
Work with staff on project management tasks for various types of projects within DPI
Develop new code and refine & troubleshoot existing code
Work with a diverse group of translational researchers eg chemists, biologists, computational biologists, etc and external collaborators to utilize GSRS, Translator, or other DPI Informatics resources into their projects
Work with colleagues to establish, troubleshoot and document best practices for software development, eg, continuous integration and continuous deployment, using technologies such as Jenkins, Travis, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud services AWS, Google Cloud, in support of the teams and collaborators Translator Consortium, US Food and Drug Administration, US Pharmacopeia, European Medicines Agency, etc
Develop new code and refine & troubleshoot existing code
Utilize best-of-breed technology stacks to implement and support NCATS scientific projects, for GSRS this include cheminformatics toolkits
Work with the tech lead and project manager to identify and fill gaps in development and implementation processes
Work with staff on the development of mobile and web-based software development informatics projects
Develop and implement new or major revisions to applications, databases, or software tools
Develop website content and data to communicate progress of programs within NCATS intramural research
Have experience translating informal feedback into implementation

REQUIREMENTS. The contractor must have:

M.Sc. in Computer Science (or a related discipline) or three (3) years of specialized experience (JAVA8+, SpringBoot, Python, Django) plus a Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant applied discipline.
Minimum of four (4) years of research and software development experience applying systems engineering, agile software development best practices and data-centric principles to design, develop and deploy software applications and services
Experience with full-stack software development
willingness to learn new technologies
Experience with search services, e.g., ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene
Experience with API development tools, e.g., Strapi/Swagger/OpenAPI
Experience writing unit tests and documentation for software.
Strong communications skills, both oral and written
Excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills
Experience working with a team of software developers through agile sprints and tracking work via tools such as JIRA, Github projects
Desire to write applications using bleeding edge technologies.

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Vacancy expired!

ID	#23798442
State	Maryland
City	Rockville
Job type	Permanent
Salary	USD TBD TBD
Source	Kelly
Showed	2021-12-03
Date	2021-12-02
Deadline	2022-01-31
Category	Software/QA/DBA/etc
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Senior Software Engineer - NIH - Rockville, MD