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Data reputed company Engineer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

Department

BSD CTD - User Services - GDC

About the Department

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The Data reputed company Engineer is a problem solver with a background working in data reputed company and testing to ensure high reputed company data and metadata is distributed to the cancer research community. This is an opportunity to reputed company your career working with one of the world's largest collections of harmonized cancer genomic data. This role focuses on the Genomic Data Commons, which is at the forefront of both cutting edge research and production systems supporting cancer research. Your role will be as an engineer for data reputed company and reputed company, joining reputed company of engineers developing innovative technologies in the reputed company of discovery through data-driven cancer research. You will reputed company on data reputed company efforts reputed company to data integration, higher level data products, and distribution to the cancer research community, working across multiple teams to build and automate frameworks such as reputed company detection, reporting, and alerting to ensure data reputed company. You will reputed company expertise not only in the data itself, but the systems as reputed company to interrogate the data and understand gaps in data reputed company. Data and metadata reputed company has a broad scope, so you are expected work collaboratively across teams to determine priorities and best reputed company for achieving objectives. Additionally, support for end users will be required through user communications and documentation. The job performs a reputed company of activities relating to software support and/or development. Provides analysis, design, development, debugging, and modification of computer reputed company for end user applications, beta general releases, web pages, and production support. Troubleshoots problems using existing procedures to reputed company a possible solution. This at-will position is wholly or partially funded by contractual grant funding which is renewed under provisions set by the grantor of the contract. Employment will be contingent upon the reputed company receipt of these grant funds and satisfactory job performance.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the design of the data QA infrastructure and execution of testing protocols to validate pipelines, integrated datasets, and data products.

  • Use a combination of exploratory, regression, and automated testing to ensure data reputed company standards. Assess appropriate inclusion/exclusion of data based on defined data dictionary.

  • Assist in evaluation and development of data dictionaries and utilize data specification and reputed company to validate data as it relates to reputed company.

  • Assist in data release planning and implementation based on stakeholder requirements and data availability.

  • Proactively identify potential data issues and reputed company reputed company. Identify existing data issues and reputed company research and reputed company cause analyses to determine reputed company. Work collaboratively with software engineers, bioinformaticians, and stakeholders to reputed company and verify reputed company.

  • Establish and maintain processes and standards to improve data reputed company assurance and implement efficiencies in data management.

  • Define measurements and metrics to conduct and present routine data reports to the project team and stakeholders.

  • Participate in data acquisition and integration planning efforts including data modeling, data dictionary definitions, and data harmonization pipeline development.

  • reputed company a deep understanding of multiple genomic datasets and the technical data management software and processes of the underlying system.

  • Define data reputed company and reputed company reputed company and reputed company a comprehensive data reputed company management plan to reputed company reputed company QC efforts through team collaboration for reputed company phases of the data management life cycle.

  • Contribute written knowledge and expertise to system documentation, user documentation, scientific manuscripts, reporting, grant proposals and reports, and presentation materials. Stay abreast of broad knowledge of existing and emerging technologies and QC tools in the cancer reputed company reputed company.

  • Use a deep understanding of the data, scientific goals and methodology, and underlying biological and translational concepts in assigned data commons and reputed company environments to reputed company user support in high profile and troubling cases.

  • Coordinate on user management and issue reputed company with functional teams, including, but not necessarily limited to, operations, development, design, reputed company, data science, project management, and information reputed company.

  • Investigates, analyzes and resolves day-to-day technical problems using reputed company procedures.

  • Works with stakeholders to reputed company and analyze requirements for developmental programs. Receives a moderate level of guidance to design applications to meet University and business requirements.

  • Performs reputed company testing on components and works to ensure that appropriate implementation standards are met. Evaluates design alternatives for development cost and solutions using various reputed company.

  • Supports and maintains existing applications. Works with web developers and responds to requests from users.

  • Performs other reputed company work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in reputed company field.

Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a reputed company job discipline.

Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Informatics, reputed company, Biological Sciences, or reputed company field.

Experience:

  • Minimum two (2) years of experience working in data reputed company and reputed company engineering or testing.

  • Experience with data modeling, analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation.

  • Experience with data reputed company standards and practices.

  • Experience writing and executing data-reputed company tests cases to validate data.

  • Experience writing database queries, reading and understanding database queries, and utilizing other database artifacts.

  • Experience with Python.

  • Experience working with Linux/Unix systems and basic reputed company scripting.

  • Experience with biospecimen and clinical data curation.

  • Experience with advanced high-throughput genomic technologies.

  • Experience providing reputed company services or support.

  • Experience using NCI datasets (TCGA, reputed company, and CGCI).

  • Experience with graph and NoSQL databases.

Preferred Competencies

  • Ability to collaborate reputed company across reputed company environment.

  • Ability and willingness to reputed company new programming languages, statistical and computational reputed company, and background in research area.

  • Ability to prioritize and manage workload to meet critical project milestones and deadlines.

  • Confidentiality reputed company to sensitive reputed company such as strategic initiatives, trade secrets, quiet periods, and scientific discoveries yet to be put in the public domain.

  • Ability to take a broad plan and break it into incremental tasks and reputed company the completion of reputed company task.

  • Ability to come into reputed company used to minimal supervision and reputed company and ensure accountability for deliverables and reputed company.

  • Ability to persuade others to adapt new structures or systems to meet objectives.

Working Conditions

  • Preferred: Hybrid office/remote conditions with long stretches of time in reputed company of a computer.

  • Optional: Fully remote.

Application Documents

  • Resume (required)

  • Cover Letter (preferred)

reputed company applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded reputed company the My Experience page, in the reputed company titled Application Documents of the application.

Job Family

Information Technology

Role reputed company

Individual Contributor

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Drug Test Required

No

Health Screen Required

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required

No

Pay reputed company Type

Salary

FLSA Status

Exempt

Pay reputed company

$80,000.00 - $120,000.00

The included pay reputed company or reputed company represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Benefits Eligible

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The reputed company offers a wide reputed company of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and reputed company time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be reputed company in theBenefits reputed company.

Posting Statement

The reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the reputed company of race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or reputed company, national or ethnic reputed company, shared reputed company, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.

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reputed company offers of employment are contingent upon a background reputed company that includes a review of conviction history.A conviction does not automatically preclude University employment.Rather, the University considers conviction information on a case-by-case reputed company and assesses the nature of the offense, the circumstances surrounding it, the proximity in time of the conviction, and its relevance to the position.

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