Bioinformatics Scientist

Bioinformatics Scientist

Integrated Resources, Inc is a premier staffing firm recognized as one of the tri-states most well-respected professional specialty firms. IRI has built its reputation on excellent service and integrity since its inception in 1996. Our mission centers on delivering only the best quality talent, the first time and every time. We provide quality resources in four specialty areas: Information Technology (IT), Clinical Research, Rehabilitation Therapy and Nursing.

Job Description

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:

• Developing and managing the content curation pipeline for the individual data types (EHR, imaging, genetic, and sensor-based)
• Curation of data sets
• Publication of versioned data sets for research use
• Creating, maintaining and publishing documentation related to the above
• Liaising with the information technology groups to enhance and further develop the data collection, management and distribution infrastructure
• Supporting ad hoc requests for data mining and analysis to aid hypothesis generation for network participants
• Creation, analysis and reporting of targeted data sets on an ad hoc basis for operational purposes and to monitor the participant network
• 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