Data Discovery Developer - Scientific Computing & Data

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Ansible, Apache, Apache Wicket, ASP.net, C# Programming, CentOS operating system, Cohort analysis, Computational Algorithms, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Design, Effective communication skills, ETL/ELT technologies, Flax Programming Language, Flight Data Monitoring-FDM, Genomic data, GEOINT tools, GPUs, Java Programming, JavaScript, Jenkins, JQuery, Knowledge graph, Large scale neuromorphic systems, Newton Rapson methods, Nginx, Node.js, Puppet, Scala Programming, SPARQL, SQL, SQL Server, Tomcat, US Healthcare Recruitment, Vue.js, WildFly

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Scientific Computing and Data group at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai partners with scientists to accelerate scientific discovery with the overarching goal of accelerating translational research and improving clinical care. To achieve these aims, we support a cutting-edge high-performance computing and data ecosystem along with MD/PhD-level support for researchers. The group is composed of a high-performance computing team, the research clinical data warehouse team and a research data services team. The group works with leading-edge researchers and clinician in genetics and genomic sciences, epidemiology, laboratory science and many other biomedical domains. One example project is the harmonized/semantic data repository and web portal for the Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource Data Center.

The Data Discovery Developer in Scientific Computing is responsible for the full software development lifecycle of new and existing data-driven applications that enable Mount Sinai research scientists to discover, integrate, and analyze the diverse data assets throughout the hospital and medical school. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in building software systems that employ search, data integration, and data visualization components that are targeted at end users with scientific research and data science backgrounds. The variety of data sources and formats that occur in healthcare and medical research is significant, including medical imagery, hospital patient records, doctor’s notes, laboratory measurements, genomics data, and controlled vocabularies of medical and scientific terms (diseases, phenotypes, organic compounds, etc.).

Some of the software development projects currently underway and in planning for future work include:

• Designing and building an Honest Broker service to manage the relationships between patients across siloed data repositories so that researchers can build datasets across the repositories without revealing Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Extending the capabilities of a selection of open source / healthcare community developed Cohort Query Tools that enable researchers to interactively construct queries across multiple health data repositories and identify patient cohorts for research studies.
• Publishing a knowledge graph of harmonized and semantically aligned environmental epidemiology and post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) research data to National Institute of Health initiatives, such as the Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR) and the National Covid Cohort Collaborative (N3C).

The successful candidate will be a crucial determinant in the success of these initiatives. Specific responsibilities are listed below.

• Develop and architect the full lifecycle of software solutions, working on different technologies and platforms.
• Work directly with clinical researchers and partnering IT staff to develop requirements and translate them into technical applications and solutions.
• Apply best practices and tools for software testing, quality assurance, production deployment, DevOps, and continuous integration / continuous deployment to ensure the reliability and performance of solutions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Communicate these best practices to the development team; serve as an advocate and coach for solid software engineering principles.
• Organize and manage software project delivery using Agile Methodology; serve as product owner and scrum master when appropriate.
• May be involved in providing assistance, training, and mentoring other programmers

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; Ph.D. preferred.
• Minimum seven years of experience in software development with increasing project and team leadership responsibilities, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Experience with Semantic Web technologies is highly desirable, including RDF, RDFS, OWL 2, SHACL, R2RML, SPARQL W3C recommendations, or Apache Jena or RDF4J frameworks for managing Semantic Web data
• Extensive experience with some 3GL and 4GL programming languages, such as Java, SQL, Scala, or JavaScript is required.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Node, Vue, and JQuery is desirable.
• Web server experience a strong plus, including JBoss/Wildfly, Tomcat, or nginx.
• Database design and development, writing complex SQL is required; Experience with MS SQL Server or Oracle preferred.
• Experience with search engine frameworks like ElasticSearch or Apache Solr is desired.
• Experience using test, build, and deploy tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, or other CI/CD tools is highly desired.
• Knowledge and experience in ASP.NET, C# and IIS is a plus.
• Must be flexible in considering and learning all technology options (tools, methods, programming languages)
• The ability to communicate effectively and manage multiple conflicting priorities simultaneously
• Experience with healthcare, research and/or genomic data is highly desirable.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity and inclusion are drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. Yet we’re as diverse as the city we call home- culturally, ethically, in outlook and lifestyle. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together and participate actively as a leader within the Mount Sinai Health System by:

• Serving as the primary resource management representative of the Mount Sinai leadership teams, committees, etc., and acting as the primary executive leader interface between Mount Sinai and key executives from the health systems’ vendors and partners.
• Engaging with relevant thought leaders and policy-makers at the federal and state levels, and representing the Health System as assigned.
• Using a lens of equity in establishing and promoting policies and procedures and providing opportunities for all to thrive.
• Confronting racist, sexist or other inappropriate behavior and challenges exclusionary organizational practices and serving as a role model to promote anti-racist behaviors.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people, and to create a welcoming, nurturing work environment where you can develop professionally. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, can make an impact on quality patient care.

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Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $108,150.00 - $164,799.92 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.