Data Engineer II (BTI, Bioinformatics)

Description: 

The Brain Tumor Institute (BTI) Bioinformatics Core at Children’s National Hospital is seeking a highly skilled Bioinformatics Engineer to join our team. This position will play a critical role in advancing research of multiple PIs to uncovering oncogenic mechanisms in pediatric brain tumors and identifying novel therapeutic targets.  

The role involves close collaboration with the Director of the BTI, researchers, and clinicians at Children’s National. The successful candidate will lead implementation of Gabriella Miller Kids First workflows using AWS and/or CAVATICA as well as new workflow development and benchmarking CWL or NextFlow. The candidate will lead data modeling and database generation for current and incoming BTI genomics data files and may be responsible for project-specific engineering needs, such as API/UI development. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for implementation of Gabriella Miller Kids First workflows using AWS, CAVATICA, and/or other cloud-based tools. 

• Collaborate with bioinformatics scientists and PIs to benchmark and optimize new production-scale analysis pipelines and workflows to generate high quality and high data integrity outputs 

• Support project-specific engineering needs, such as database/API/UI development 

• Collaborate with an AWS architect and/or IT to optimize resource use as needed 

• Be responsible for AWS bucket organization and file storage management 

• Create and maintain clear documentation for data engineering workflows, including codebases, data pipelines, validation, testing, and CI/CD processes.