Scheduled Hours

40

Position Summary

The Research Computing and Informatics Facility (RCIF) in the Department of Radiology at Washington University is looking for an enthusiastic, customer-focused Applications Analyst to join our team. In this role, you’ll help support and grow the database and informatics platforms that power the university’s primary research imaging repositories. You’ll work with modern tooling, large and meaningful clinical imaging research datasets, and applications used across the research enterprise.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving interesting data and application challenges, working with cutting-edge technologies, and supporting researchers who rely on these systems to advance science and healthcare.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

For Large Environment with Dedicated Application Programming Staff (using team development approach)

• Use complex queries and PACS imaging tools to create custom research datasets that combine imaging and non-imaging clinical data.

• Develop and maintain large, broadly useful clinical and research datasets for shared use across research teams.

• Maintain, improve, and extend tools that extract, organize, and curate research data.

• Provide operational and end-user support for web-based database systems, research applications, and data workflows.

• Create and maintain documentation for datasets, workflows, tools, and processes.

• Troubleshoot data, application, and system-level issues.

• Coordinates with team members to develop front-end applications, including HTML code and scripts for website applications.

• Write scripts—and help researchers write scripts—that use REST APIs to automate tasks and manage data.

• Automate processes to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and reliability.

• Review and optimize computing scripts used across research projects.

• Develop and maintain web application plugins to add or enhance functionality.

• Implement scripts to perform large-scale or bulk data operations.

• Coordinates work with other team members for application development and administration, network administration, and database administration to ensure that architecture, functionality, and design are consistent with all information technology strategies.

• Researches and evaluates new technology, products, specialized hardware and tools to optimize development and functionality of websites and applications.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

For Department-Level Environment with Combined Responsibilities (using full life cycle development approach)

• Develops projects of moderate size and complexity.

• Determines appropriate architecture, and other technical solutions, and makes relevant recommendations to clients.

• Develops detailed specification documents with clear deliverables and timelines.

• Defines database requirements, functionality, and utilization.

• Designs and develops application database structure, tables, entity relationships, and security privileges.

• Works with clients and designers to build and refine graphic designs for websites and applications.

• Tests applications to ensure displays meet ease of use and flexibility standards and to ensure websites execute properly for multiple browsers, engaging users as necessary.

• Develops, reviews, and integrates new forms and pages, graphics, and other elements, including HTML code and scripts for website applications.

• Ensures designs make efficient use of network and database resources.

• Creates online help functions, including application documentation.

• Coordinates work with other team members for application development and administration, network administration, and database administration to ensure that architecture, functionality, and design are consistent with all information technology strategies.

• Researches and evaluate new technology, products, specialized hardware and tools to optimize development and functionality of websites and applications.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions:

Job Location/Working Conditions

• Normal office environment

Physical Effort

• Typically sitting at a desk or table

Equipment

• Office equipment

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