Seattle Children's Hospital
Location
Seattle, WA | United States
Job description
As part of the Research Scientific Computing Team, you'll work with scientists, developers, analysts, and business owners in a team-driven, agile environment to support cutting edge research projects. Using traditional bioinformatics applications combined with modern big data technologies, our team enables the Institution to better leverage high throughput multi-omics analyses to accelerate translational research and improve patient care. Collaborate with researchers across multiple disciplines to develop solutions and tools to advance research with advanced analytics. Provide support and training to researcher partners to improve technical literacy and programming skills across the organization. Dive deep into vast repositories of structured, unstructured, and streaming data to find the input for models. Create tools and libraries that can leverage products for efficient use across the enterprise and beyond.
***Please note: Seattle Children's will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position***
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Demonstrated advanced-skill level, knowledge, and proficiency in the application of data science tools and methods to applied clinical or business problems; R or Python preferred
- Demonstrated experience in accessing, querying, and manipulating multi-dimensional data sources, including multiple source systems from databases, flat files, free text, streaming, etc.
- Experience with data visualization for non-technical audiences
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams to coordinate assigned work and accomplish clinical or business objectives
- Excellent communication, teamwork, and collaboration skills
- Familiarity with agile/scrum methodologies
- Familiarity with command-line interface language (e.g., bash, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell)
- Comfortable with public speaking and presentations to audiences of 10 or more
- Ability to solve and resolve complex technical problems; taking a new perspective using existing solutions
- Ability to apply best practices and knowledge of data science to improve products, processes, or services
- Ability to interpret customer needs, assess requirements, and identifies solutions to nonstandard requests
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships including the resolution of difficult issues
- Ability to manage and coordinate small projects or programs with manageable risks and resource requirements
- Ability to interpret extensive variety of technical instruction and deal with complex variables
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to think creatively
- Strong understanding of data science concepts and techniques
- Understanding of security and privacy issues
- Able to work independently, with minimal supervision
Required Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computational Biology, Computational Immunology, Biostatistics, or related field and 2+ years relevant experience OR a Master's with evidence of work or applied research experience using data science tools and methods.
- Experience with multi-omics or multi-modal high dimensional data analysis and pipelines, e.g. next-generation sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, phenotypic readouts, imaging, and clinical data
- Experience developing and using statistical models and algorithms
- Intermediate or higher experience in least one major data science language (e.g., R, Python)
- Experience in use of data visualization tools and methods
- Experience working with source control tools and version management
- Experience in data extraction using at least one data manipulation language/package(e.g., SQL, R-dplyr, SAS DATA step, Python-pandas)
- Experience as a member of a delivery team supporting integrated data science products and solutions for a wide range of customer groups, including ability to listen and understand customer questions, issues, and concerns, both technical and operational
Required Credentials:
- N/A
Preferred:
- Masters degree in computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics or related discipline with experience in high-throughput methods such as WES, WGS, RNA-Seq, ssRNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, etc.
- Familiarity with command line, linux environments, and running jobs on high-performance computing clusters
- Working knowledge of cell and molecular biology
- Solid understanding of biostatistics and experimental design principles
- Experience with ML applications for scientific problems is a plus
- Familiarity with scrum/agile development best practices
This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.
The union pay ranges can be found on the Seattle Children’s website here: WSNA - UFCW
Seattle Children’s offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.
This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors .
Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Click here for more information.
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As one of the nation's top five pediatric research centers, Seattle Children's Research Institute is dedicated to providing hope, care, and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible.
Our investigators are involved in hundreds of projects that cover every phase of research, from studying how diseases work to improving investigational therapies. They have pioneered groundbreaking cystic fibrosis treatments and cutting-edge cancer therapies that help a child's immune system defeat cancer, and made other major contributions to pediatric medicine.
Researchers work in close collaboration with one another, their colleagues at partner institutions including the University of Washington and Fred Hutch and our healthcare providers at Seattle Children's Hospital, one of U.S. News & World Report’s top children's hospitals. This collaboration is one of our key strengths, allowing our faculty to draw on a variety of disciplines and techniques as they pursue solutions to some of medicine's most complex problems.
We are committed to not only treating disease but to eliminating it. Help us achieve our vision of being a worldwide leader in pediatric research aimed to improve the health and well-being of children. If you are interested in a challenging career aimed at groundbreaking research, Seattle Children's Research Institute is the place for you.
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