Position Description

The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the Harvard Medical School is seeking a Senior Developer with experience in gene expression analysis, web development, and machine learning to lead comprehensive applications/web development for complex projects.  
 

The candidate will be integrating disparate public data sources relevant to genetics and therapeutics to allow for rich annotation of therapeutic candidates. They will be independently responsible for the design and implementation of intuitive and responsive web-based analytic tools that will enable researchers and clinicians to easily submit data and rapidly receive interpretable results.   
 

Typical Core duties: 

• Serve as subject matter and engineering expert leading the completion, continued implementation, and evolution of the trademarked Cellenics single cell analytics pipeline product.       
• Conducting systems analysis, design, development, and implementation of web applications.      
• Leading technical conversations with internal and external partners. 
• Leading response to security threats and their prevention, ensuring compliance with departmental security requirements by implementing security measures.       
• Strategic advisor to cloud security personnel to ensure compliance and run business impact analysis.   
• Platform analytics monitoring to identify trends, user behaviors, and improvements.        
• Repository and software maintenance, implementation of new features to improve platform performance and capabilities.       
• Participate fully in the software development life cycle.      
• Lead development of technical solutions to deliver business requirements. 
• Participate in long term strategic planning for the application portfolio(s).       
• Establish and maintain internal/external stakeholder relationships.       
• Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, polices and Code of Conduct. 

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of seven years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience

Additional Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated aptitude in quantitative biology or relevant fields.      
• Proficiency in web and scientific programming (R, Python) and full stack web development (JavaScript). 
• Experience with successful self-directed research projects.      
• Ability to build functional prototypes given minimal specification.

Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Harvard University views equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging as the pathway to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering a campus culture where everyone can thrive. We strive to create a community that draws upon the widest possible pool of talent to unify excellence and diversity while fully embracing individuals from varied backgrounds, cultures, races, identities, life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, and values.

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.