Bioinformatics Engineer I

At Mass General Brigham Digital, we pride ourselves on our ability to create maximum strategic, clinical, and operational value from established and emergent technologies for our patients, care teams, researchers, and employees. Digital health will not only enhance the equity and efficiency of healthcare delivery, but it will also help make medicine more personalized and precise.

We recognize that increasing value and continually improving quality while maintaining an inclusive focus are essential to organizational excellence, and we invite you to join us on this journey. The work we do in Digital is a strategic imperative, and there is a strong and growing understanding of how together we will transform Mass General Brigham in innovative and impactful ways.

The Opportunity:

This is a position supporting MGB Pathology Informatics. Pathology Informatics drives the application of clinical bioinformatics, digital pathology, and other clinical/research/education informatics needs in the department. We develop and leverage software solutions and integrated data to improve the delivery of patient care. The successful candidate will join an existing informatics team which has developed, maintained, and continue to innovate/improve solutions for clinical pathology informatics.

This candidate will work as part of a team to complete larger multi-layered tasks and projects. Employees at this level are task oriented and are generally assisted to a single task or project at a time. Generally has BS Degree and 1-3 years of experience or a Masters degree with 0-3 years of experience

Requirements:

1. Collaborate with senior engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
2. Participate in code reviews and offer constructive feedback to peers.
3. Assist in troubleshooting and resolving software defects and issues
4. Participate in code reviews and offer constructive feedback to peers.
5. Contribute to the documentation of software designs and processes.
6. Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

7. They work under close supervision and are involved in implementing smaller, well-defined tasks.

1. Design, implement, test, maintain and support web applications for clinical lab informatics, bioinformatics, digital pathology, anatomic pathology, and clinical pathology
2. Practices software development, unit testing, integration testing, code review, documentation, and version control
3. Support data engineering efforts, including database and API design, data extraction/transformation/load and data aggregation/integration.
4. Participate in the various software phases including database design, development and testing under the guidance of senior engineers
5. Improve the current pipeline automation by developing on the feature requests and enhancements from the end users
6. Supporting production environment and operations
7. Modify and develop new data visualization tools using datasets and web-based bioinformatics tools, with emphasis on integrating various data types, identifying opportunities and needs for innovative solutions for the analysis and management of biological data in relevant databases. Independently develop new data visualization tools for faculty which enhances the ability to effectively interpret data output.
8. Collaborate with other IS group staff on the development of software and custom scripts to automate data retrieval, improve user interfaces, create new statistical tools and reports, etc.. Independently design new tools to improve operations in the Department of Pathology.

1. Bachelors degree in bioinformatics, computer science and/or the life sciences

required with 1-3 yrs of experience or Masters with 0-3 yrs of experience. MS/phD a plus

2. Programming using C#, ASP.NET/Python

3. SQL proficiency using SQL Server

4. Services and Web API development using C# (Experience with Java, Perl, Node JS is a plus)

5. Formal agile software development

6. Formal experience with continuous integration/continuous development

7. Experience working in clinical health care preferred.

Skills/Competencies:

1. Backend and API development using Python, or NodeJS or C#, Java, R, Perl (FastAPI is a plus).

2. SQL proficiency using MySQL and/or SQL Server, knowledge of NoSQL and other DBMS (e.g.,PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apache CouchDB) a plus

3. Web development using Angular 6+, Python Flask (ASP.NET would be a plus).

4. Experience with backend programming languages such as python, PHP, or Java preferred

5. Experience in RESTful programming, designing RESTful APIs, deploying web services, and configuring web servers (e.g., Apache, NGINX)

6. Experience with Linux container engines and container orchestration systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) preferred

7. Experience with cloud computing a plus

8. Experience with workflow management platforms a plus (Airflow, Argo)

9. Familiarity SDLC principles.

10. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with all levels of staff and external contacts.

11. Excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills.

12. Ability to work in a highly collaborative and intellectually challenging environment

13. Excellent oral and written communication skills

14. Ability to rapidly assess, learn, and implement new technologies / services as new needs arise, as well as communicating use of those technologies

15. Excellent attention to detail

16. Ability to work independently, self-motivated

17. Strong communication skills to be able to work effectively with multidisciplinary staff, interacting with individuals at many levels of multiple institutions

Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.