Bioinformatics Analyst
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Job posting number: #7294684 (Ref:df41999)
Posted: December 4, 2024
Job Description
We are seeking a highly motivated Bioinformatics Analyst who is passionate about the data driven discovery and innovation in cancer research and clinical care of patients with cancer. The successful candidate will have opportunities to work across multiple disciplines, including biomedical informatics, data engineering, and data science. You will be working with various types of cancer data-such as clinical, genomic, and medical imaging data-and implementing best practices to enhance scientific data sharing.
In this role, you will collaborate with cancer research and operations teams to identify and summarize valuable institutional data assets, extract standardized metadata for continuous integration into our cancer research data catalog, and maximize the data sharing across the institute. The successful candidate is also expected to collaborate with data engineers for the automation of data pipelines and ML/AI workflows in multi-cloud environment, assess emerging data technologies, and integrate multimodal data for AI-ready datasets.
Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
While the work location can be hybrid or fully remote, for the selected candidate must live and work from one of the New England states (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT).
- Collaborate with bioinformaticians, engineers, and teams across the institute to explore, analyze and promote institutional and community data assets
- Develop and maintain reusable data utilities for summarization, metadata extraction, data transformation, and reporting
- install and assess data processing pipelines and computational tools, evaluate emerging data technologies, and containerize analysis pipelines to enhance analysis reproducibility
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable pipeline workflows to automate data integration from multiple data systems
- Generate comprehensive technical documentations for developed solutions
- Advocate and adopt community best practices for data FAIRNESS, data security and sharing across the institution and community.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS or MS in bioinformatics, medical informatics, computer science, data science, computational biology, or a related field.
- Proficiency in programming with Python and R, along with a solid understanding of data analysis and visualization.
- Experience in Linux environment, including basic shell scripting and common-line tools
- Familiarity with distributed code versioning tools such as Git, GitHub
- Basic understanding of machine learning concepts.
- Strong problem-solving and communications skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years of working experience in a relevant academic or industry setting
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with RDBMS and healthcare or omics data
- Exposure to a public cloud environment (GCP, Azure, or AWS)
- Familiarity with health data standards and technologies, e.g. FHIR, OMOP CDM, GA4GH
- Experience with software development and Agile process is a strong plus
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are equally committed to diversifying our faculty and staff. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and diverse professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
