The Department of Biomedical Informatics The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center seeks a Director for the Center for Biostatistics. Applications are due by Tuesday, May 14th.
Web Developers
Informatics Research and Development (IR&D) is the home of BMIs full-time software engineering and research services staff. The Software Engineering division of IR&D develops software solutions that range in time from months to several years for a variety of uses including internal research projects, OSUWMC applications, contract-based and grant funded research.
Position Description:
The IR&D Software Engineering team is seeking web developers to design, implement and optimize web applications in projects that store, query, analyze and manipulate collections of very large multi-dimensional datasets, including clinical, bio-molecular and genomic data. A successful candidate must understand how to apply web application architecture in order to leverage software oriented architecture and to provide reusable modules / plugins that can be applied to multiple projects.
This position will report directly to an IR&D senior developer, serving as personnel manager, and one or more Project Leads, who coordinate work assignments and projects that are aligned with BMI, OSUWMC IT and OSUWMC strategies.
What you bring:
- Practical experience with JVM-based web frameworks including Google Web Toolkit and/or Grails.
- Practical experience with Javascript and CSS.
- Practical experience of SOA integration into web applications using SOAP and RESTful services within the Java ecosystem.
- Desire and capability to investigate new open source technologies, present them to the team.
- Desire to gain domain-specific knowledge in the Biomedical Informatics field.
- Bachelor's degree in biomedical informatics, computer and information science, computer science engineering or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Bonus points:
- Practical experience with Spring MVC, JSF, Play or other JVM-based web frameworks.
- Practical experience with data visualization.
- Understanding of and ability to work on Linux.
- Familiarity with OS X (Mac Laptop)
What we bring:
- Access to research-oriented software development projects with national and global deployments.
- Yearly training and conference attendance.
- Technology commercialization opportunities.
- Education opportunities at The Ohio State University, including a Biomedical Informatics graduate degree program.
- SVN and GIT Source control, build automation and daily builds.
- Web-based task and bug management, WIKI documentation and code reviews
- An environment where technologist select the technologies.
Applications for this position is being evaluated on an ongoing basis. To express interest in a position, please email a resume to informatics.careers@osumc.edu and indicate "Web Developers" in the subject.
Biomedical Informatics Senior Consultant
Senior BMI Consultant who will manage the research informatics services program within the Department of Biomedical Informatics and under the strategic oversight of Informatics Research & Development, and oversee the support of informatics demands from the OSUWMC clinical and translational research community, including electronic data capture solutions, research databases, collaboration sites and secondary use of EHR data. Additionally, this individual will direct and execute research and development efforts of system software in projects that involve the development, optimization and integration of applications that store, query, analyze and manipulate collections of very large multi-dimensional datasets, including clinical, biomolecular and genomic data, as well as identify strategic opportunities for process improvement and increased competitive advantage through the utilization of new and/or existing technologies. Master’s degree in computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience; extensive experience in software development and administration; extensive knowledge of and experience in a modern object oriented language and distributed programming preferred.
Biomedical Informatics Specialist (Software Developer)
As a Software Developer in the IR&D team, you will implement and maintain web–based applications under the leadership of senior IR&D developers. Solutions will be built and tested using Java and common tools and frameworks from the Java ecosystem using agile software development methodologies. Additional development activities will likely require an understanding and use of Software Oriented Architecture frameworks. Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Informatics, Computer and Information Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience required; experience in web application development using Java, Google Web Toolkit, Ant, Ivy, CSS, database development, agile software development and automated testing methodologies required; ability to investigate and troubleshoot problems with minimal oversight required. Experience in SOA, systems design, design patterns and software integration is preferred. Excellent communication skills and customer service skills desired.
Biomedical Informatics Specialist (Web/UI Focused)
Developer focused on design and development of integrated web-based software applications, with a specific emphasis on user interface technologies, supporting basic and clinical research studies, as well as databases to support the data management and analysis needs of funded research projects. Bachelor’s degree in biomedical informatics, computer and information science or an equivalent combination of education and experience required; experience in Ruby on Rails, JAVA, Cucumber, HTML5, CSS, SQL, database development, agile software development and automated testing methodologies required. Experience in SOA, systems design, design patterns and software integration is preferred. Excellent communication skills and customer service skills desired.
Applications for staff positions are being evaluated on an ongoing basis.
The Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at The Ohio State University (OSU, http://www.osu.edu) currently has multiple opportunities for post-doctoral researchers with research interests related to Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) and Translational Bioinformatics (TBI).
As part of the
OSU Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC), BMI leads a robust and expansive informatics research, development, service, and training program spanning multiple domains, including: high performance computing computational biology and bioinformatics, translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics. These efforts are complemented by access to the unique living laboratory afforded by the diverse education, research, and clinical activities of OSU/OSUWMC. Faculty and staff in BMI have comprehensive access to an advanced information systems environment including inpatient and outpatient electronic health records, data warehousing platforms, a variety of enterprise research information systems, and high-performance computing and data management facilities for both clinical and bio-molecular data, the later being afforded by a partnership with the
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). Unprecedented growth in extramural programmatic funding over the past decade, as well as the operations of OSUWMCs CTSA-funded
Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) and NCI-designated
Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC), and an ongoing $1 billion expansion of OSUWMC, further enhance the breadth and depth of resources available at the nation's largest, integrated health sciences campus.
We are specifically seeking candidates with experience and interests in one or more of the following areas:
- The discovery, collection, integration, storage, and retrieval of complex data sets in support of clinical and translational research programs;
- The application of network analysis, hypothesis discovery, and data mining methods to heterogeneous biomedical data sets;
- The use of semantic web technologies in biomedical application domains;
- The use of natural language process and text mining tools to extract biological knowledge from domain literature; and,
- Visualization of multi-dimensional data sets.
Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the application of biomedical informatics theories and methods to clinical and translational research use cases.
The successful applicant will have an M.D. and/or Ph.D.; in computer science, biomedical informatics, computational biology, or a related discipline.
To apply, please e-mail a cover letter, CV and list of references to biomedical.informatics@osumc.edu (referencing the “CRI/TBI Post-Doctoral Researcher Position.” PDF submissions are preferred. Evaluation of applications is underway and will continue until positions are filled.
The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer
