Senior Genomic Data Scientist

DLH, a forward-leaning professional technical and engineering services company across Federal, National Security, Intelligence, and Commercial industries, is experiencing steady organic growth. Our next-level solutions and support have earned us national accolades and the trust of our clients for over two decades. With continued growth comes opportunity, and we are currently searching for a Senior Genomic Data Scientist to support our Baltimore, MD office.

Position Summary:

The Senior Genomic Data Scientist will assist in the creation, security hardening and maintenance of research databases that will directly support the overall function and mission of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). You will combine your understanding of genomic and computational biology knowledge with programming, data warehousing, and quantitative problem solving with data analysis. You will design and implement solutions and corresponding data architectures to address NIA needs. You will work collaboratively with both the IT team and other lab resources to develop a repository of genetic data and the informatics infrastructure in support of the National Institute of Aging research projects while ensuring we adhere to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a data management strategy that integrates all aspects of the organizations Genomic Data.  

• Establish a data governance plan ensuring all data is collected, handled, stored, transported, or shared in accordance with federal mandates, laws and regulations.  

• Ensure all data is tagged and includes all appropriate standardized meta-data attributes and descriptive variables that will be determined in consultation with relevant stakeholders and downstream data consumers.  

• Provide data quality control and assessment. Develop and implement overall quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) programs or systems covering data coordination and systems management activities critical for the successful operation of the labs. 

• Assist scientists with programming in modern languages such as Java and Python, as well as help to convert legacy codes into massively parallel codes written for GPU using CUDA, RAPIDS or GPU accelerated and/or Python or R programming 

• Works closely with Scientific Director, Clinical Directors, scientific steering committee and others to provide scientific guidance, help define project requirements and monitor project progress. 

• Engineer, maintain, & improve upon pipeline code base for bioinformatics processing & analysis of various genomics data types as well as facilitate internal & external data availability to bioinformaticians and developers. 

• Develop & maintain structured data repositories for semi-automated computational reassessment & record keeping. 

• Interface with research-serving IT specialists to assure availability of appropriate HPC resources (compute, storage, networking) while structuring data storage technologies including relational and/or NoSQL. 

• Other responsibilities not listed

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Biomedical Sciences, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, or other healthcare related technical discipline. 

• 8+ years of relevant, applicable professional experience such as but not limited to data management, including data modeling, ontology engineering, metadata management and health data standards. 

• Experience with building repositories, implementation of NIH and NIST policies, and hardening systems using NIH, NIST, and industrial standards.  

• Experience with genomics and bioinformatics with a statistics and statistical analysis of data, machine learning algorithms or general algorithm development and knowledge of molecular biology techniques. 

• Experience with data discovery to take an unknown data set and extract meaningful data, performing data acquisition, data cleansing and other data preparation tasks. 

• Advanced knowledge and expertise in supporting scientific researchers and their specialized systems and equipment with a willingness to stay current with advancements in the genomics field. 

• Experienced software developer with multiple programming languages such as but not limited to R, Python, SAS, MATLAB as well as experience with genomic data analysis tools and software. 

• Very strong interpersonal, problem-solving and analytical skills, customer service, result-oriented, and team-building skills are essential with a strong attention to detail and accuracy. 

• Knowledge of ethical and regulatory standards in genomics research. 

• Experience with laboratory information management systems (LIMS)

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting a hospital/clinical, governmental, and/or medical research laboratory environment 

• Structuring data storage technologies including relational and/or NoSQL 

• Using version control systems such as Git and/or GitHub, & software project management systems such as Jira. 

• Java, Python, and /or R certification 

Basic Compensation: $155,000.00 -$ 170,000.00 yearly salary

The salary offered within this range will be based on the selected candidates’ skills, experience, education, market data, and internal parity. DLH may offer other rewards that may include performance incentives and program-specific awards.  An applicant’s salary history will not be used to determine compensation.

Benefits: DLH Corp offers our employees an excellent benefits package including - Personal Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, supplemental life with AD&D, short and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, parental leave, legal services and more. We want our employees to save for their future, therefore we offer a 401(k) Retirement Plan, which includes a matching component. DLH is dedicated to your career development, providing training to help drive success, with access to our best-in-class e-Learning suite for formal and informal learning, professional and technical certification preparation, and education assistance at accredited institutions.