RESEARCH SOFTWARE ARCHITECT at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center – Tampa, Florida

Research Software Architect

Position Highlights:

• The Research Software Architect leads the development of informatics pipelines and database solutions for large bioinformatics data sets, particularly sequencing-based data sets.
• Development of software applications to process, load and reformat sequencing-based and other omics-based data sets for database loading.
• Development of new applications and tools for visualization of "omics" data within a database, with a focus on next-generation sequencing studies.
• Database loading, web-based visualization, and corresponding annotation of large-scale 'omics data sets.
• Mentors research software developers and engineers.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Experienced software development professional.
• The successful candidate will lead and review the development/informatics aspects of projects independently using appropriate tools and architectures.
• The candidate will perform intermediate and advanced requirements analysis, systems architecture, and development for research projects.
• This position will collaborate independently with project teams and mentor junior research software developers.
• Experience with web services and distributed computing is strongly preferred.
• PhD in relevant field is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Leads software/database development projects, code and software artifacts (database and system design) independently.
• Leads gathering system requirements, developing complex databases and applications, building information logical data models, major entities, attributes, relationships and software components.
• Performs software/database development for specific projects independently.
• Provides database administration and support, system change management requests, monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, software modification, tool implementation and upgrades.
• Collaboratively engages faculty, staff and senior software developers for project initiation, development of scope of work and project rollout.
• Must maintain accurate and appropriate records of software and database development, core usage and time management.

Credentials and Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, informatics systems, health informatics, bioinformatics, health informatics, or comparable field is required and a minimum of:
  • At least 5 years in the software development, database design or administration work, inclusive of 3 years of experience performing software engineering/architecture work is required.
  • Experience of at least 7 years in software development, database design or administration work, inclusive of 3 years performing software engineering/architecture work, will be considered in lieu of Master’s degree
• Experience with Linux/Unix and scripting required.
• Good understanding of software development life cycle and architect design.
• Strong programming skills in object-oriented programming and design, Java, C, C++ and XML.
• Excellent SQL/database development and optimization background.
• Experience with Oracle and MySQL databases, PL/SQL strongly preferred.
• Experience with REST APIs
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with mobile development preferred
• Experience with Cloud computing preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working with biological data preferred.