IT Architect/Engineer1/Program Specialist (Haendel Team)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Updated: about 11 hours ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 05 Jul 2024

Posting Information
Posting Information


Department Genetics-423501
Career Area Information Technology
Posting Open Date 06/20/2024
Application Deadline 07/05/2024
Open Until Filled No
Position Type Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)
Working Title IT Architect/Engineer1/Program Specialist (Haendel Team)
Appointment Type EHRA Non-Faculty
Position Number 20062167
Vacancy ID NF0008261
Full Time/Part Time Full-Time Permanent
FTE 1
Hours per week 40
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range Dependent Upon Qualifications
Proposed Start Date 08/01/2024

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Be a Tar Heel!
A global higher education leader in innovative teaching, research and public service, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top public universities . Known for its beautiful campus, world-class medical care, commitment to the arts and top athletic programs, Carolina is an ideal place to teach, work and learn.
One of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, Chapel Hill has diverse social, cultural, recreation and professional opportunities that span the campus and community.
University employees can choose from a wide range of professional training opportunities for career growth, skill development and lifelong learning and enjoy exclusive perks for numerous retail, restaurant and performing arts discounts, savings on local child care centers and special rates on select campus events. UNC-Chapel Hill offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package , paid leave, and a variety of health, life and retirement plans and additional programs that support a healthy work/life balance.
Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. 
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.
Position Summary
This Software Engineer will join our team of expert biological curators, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists maintain and enhance a knowledge extraction and refinement process that delivers an ever-growing set of relevant biological data and its provenance for biomedical applications. We develop and promote the use of shared ontologies to describe knowledge in an open and extensible model that is targeted towards machine reasoning. We develop, adapt, and apply innovative scientific knowledge management theory and technology to provide computational semantic bridges between disparate knowledge sources. We seek to enable bioinformatic reasoning and clinical decision-making using all the species as well as associated bioinformatic data, including genes, phenotypes, chemistry, drugs, and much more. https://tislab.org
This individual will join our team of expert biological curators, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists. We develop and promote the use of shared ontologies to describe knowledge in an open and extensible model that is targeted towards machine reasoning. We develop, adapt, and apply innovative scientific knowledge management theory and technology to provide computational semantic bridges between disparate knowledge sources. We seek to enable bioinformatic reasoning and clinical decision-making using all the species as well as associated bioinformatic data, including genes, phenotypes, chemistry, drugs, and much more. https://tislab.org
This Scientific Software Engineer will develop and extend existing testing and data standards for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Biomedical Translator project (https://github.com/NCATSTranslator/), develop software to author, generate and validate schemas, harmonize schemas, and deploy them in various languages, develop and maintain software infrastructure for deploying TISLab software and data services, and perform other software development and engineering for this research program and SOM.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Master’s or Bachelors and 0-2 years’ experience; or will accept a combination of related education and experience in substitution.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Experience with software project management tools and version control systems (e.g., Git/GitHub, Jira, Confluence)
 experience in scripting languages (e.g. Python, R) and experience with data science workflow tools (e.g. Jupyter Notebooks, R Markdown etc.)
 Experience with test-driven development and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, for example with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Significant contributions to research as evidenced through the development and dissemination of software, data and knowledgebases, preprints, and/or publications
 Experience building complex software systems using microservices and cloud-native technologies. Docker experience is a plus.
 Demonstrated ability to work on multiple large-scale collaborations that include a wide variety of domain experts.
 Working knowledge using semantic web technologies, including libraries for RDF, OWL, and/or JSON-LD; Experience with OWL reasoners. Experience with triplestores and Graph databases such as Neo4J. Experience using SPARQL and/or graph query languages such as Cypher
 Experience programming in the following languages: Java/JavaScript, Clojure, LISP.
 Familiarity with common relational databases and SQL, which may or may not include experience in UML modeling and object-oriented methodologies; and/or multiple modeling and schema languages.
 Data and schema harmonization strategies and compliance testing.
 Familiarity with clinical models and standards such as HL7 FHIR and OHDSI OMOP.
 Experience with ontologies and terminologies, for example, Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) and related OBO Library tools
 Experience with deploying semantic artifacts within the context of web applications and user interfaces; similarly, in developing and evaluating data curation workflows, data quality, and validation according to semantic standards.
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

Not Applicable.
Special Instructions
Flexible work arrangements, including virtual/hybrid work locations, are an integral part of the School of Medicine’s Working Forward initiative. As such, this position’s work location is designated as virtual. Please note that the designated work location is subject to change based on the unit’s business needs.
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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.

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