Applications Professional IV
Boston, MA

Job Description

Additional Information

This is a one-year term position with strong potential for renewal.

Developing applications on our team involves exposure to the following:

* Application communication via JaxRS and Grails driven Web Based APIs
* AWS Cloud Environment with DevOps tools like Docker, Jenkins, and Ansible.
* Highly collaborative scientific informatics projects.
* Big Data problems in the biomedical and genomic space
* Interfacing with various data storage and indexing solutions like Oracle, SciDB, SQL Server, Redshift, SOLR, and others

Specific responsibilities for this position include:

* Develop and maintain new and pre-existing features of and integrate applications with our existing API: http://bd2k-picsure.hms.harvard.edu
* Work with research scientists both internally and externally to identify software requirements.
* Propose solutions to these requirements, weighing the costs and benefits with our team as well as a broader group of stakeholders involved in the open source community.
* Implement solutions and update the team on the status of work.
* Create documentation, examples and client libraries related to requirements and the project in general.
* Collaborate with team members in architectural discussions and contribute to general improvements across all team projects as directed.

Job Summary

Plan and conduct comprehensive applications/web development for complex projects; typically work as part of a team to implement complex business solutions. Perform expert coding: design, develop code at an expert level, and manage development projects, teams, programs. May manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Basic Qualifications

* Minimum of five years' post-secondary education and/or relevant work experience