Research Data Analyst II Bioinformatics
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Summary
The Research Data Analyst II will be working closely with Dr. Brooke Fridley and other faculty in Moffitt’s Department of Bio2.
Position Highlights:
- The Research Data Analyst II (Bioinformatics) will be responsible for conducting bioinformatics or statistical analyses requiring 2 years of experience programming in R, Python, SAS, or some other statistical software package under supervision of Principal Investigators from the Gastrointestinal Oncology (GI) Program.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Familiarity with Next Generation sequencing
- Familiarity with other high-throughput bioinformatics data
- Familiarity with high dimensional data wrangling
- Familiarity with analysis techniques including machine learning, parallelization, and out-of-memory computation in a cluster environment, image processing, and high dimensional data visualization.
- Familiarity with tidyverse, ggplot2, shiny, R package development, python and computing on a high performance computer cluster (linux).
- Have a working knowledge of cloud-based architecture and software engineering skills needed for the creation of IT infrastructure, such as dashboards and data visualization tools and clinical trial matching and personalized medicine capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with the Principal Investigator(s) to manage and analyze data
- Design, develop and deploy high performance computational software in the cluster to facilitate research to the PI.
- Develop and utilize appropriate software methodologies for emerging genomic technologies
- Work with systems and solutions architects to coordinate development efforts throughout the data lifecycle
- Benchmark new tools for high dimensional data analysis as well as develop and apply novel analytic approaches to existing molecular epidemiology data
- Aid in the design and maintenance of a cloud-based curated DataMart for the GI Oncology Program and fulfill honest broker/concierge level responsibilities.
Credentials and Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in bioinformatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, or related field with 2 years of relevant experience with statistical packages is required.
- Or Bachelor's Degree in biostatistics, bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology, epidemiology or related field and 7 years of relevant experience with statistical packages is required
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