Senior IT Data Scientist (Genomic Data)

About Us 

DLH delivers improved health and national security readiness solutions for federal programs through science research and development, systems engineering and integration, and digital transformation. Our experts in public health, performance evaluation, and health operations solve the complex problems faced by civilian and military customers alike by leveraging advanced tools – including digital transformation, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud enablement, modeling, simulation, and more. With over 3,200 employees dedicated to the idea that “Your Mission is Our Passion,” DLH brings a unique combination of government sector experience, proven methodology, and unwavering commitment to innovation to improve the lives of millions. 

Overview 

DLH, a forward-leaning professional technical and engineering services company across Federal, National Security, Intelligence, and Commercial industries, is experiencing steady organic growth. Our next-level solutions and support have earned us national accolades and the trust of our clients for over two decades. With continued growth comes opportunity, and we are currently searching for a Senior IT Data Scientist to support our Baltimore & Bethesda, MD team. 

Position Summary: 

The Senior IT Data Scientist will assist in the creation, security hardening, and maintenance of our genomic and genetic research databases that will directly support the overall function and mission of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). You will combine your understanding of genomic and computational biology knowledge with programming, data warehouse management, data access control, and quantitative problem-solving with data analysis. You will design and implement solutions and corresponding data architectures to address NIA needs. You will work collaboratively with both the senior IT and scientific staff to develop a repository of genetic data and the informatics infrastructure in support of the National Institute of Aging research projects while ensuring we adhere to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy. 

Responsibilities: 

• Develop a data management strategy that integrates all aspects of the organization's Genomic Data.  

• Establish a data governance plan ensuring all data is collected, handled, stored, transported, or shared in accordance with federal mandates, laws, and regulations.  

• Ensure all data is tagged and includes all appropriate standardized meta-data attributes and descriptive variables that will be determined in consultation with relevant stakeholders and downstream data consumers.  

• Provide data quality control and assessment. Develop and implement overall quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) programs or systems covering data coordination and systems management activities critical for the successful operation of the labs. 

• Works closely with the Scientific Director, Clinical Directors, scientific steering committee, and others to provide scientific guidance, help define project requirements, and monitor project progress. 

• Develop & maintain structured data repositories for semi-automated computational reassessment & record keeping. 

• Interface with research-serving IT specialists to ensure the availability of appropriate HPC resources (compute, storage, networking) while structuring data storage technologies including relational and/or NoSQL. 

• Other responsibilities are not listed. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Biomedical Sciences, or other healthcare IT-related technical discipline. 

• 8+ years of relevant, applicable professional experience as but not limited to data management, including data modeling, metadata management and health data standards. 

• Experience with building repositories, implementation of NIH and NIST policies, and hardening systems using NIH, NIST, and industrial standards.  

• Experience with genomics and bioinformatics with statistics and statistical analysis of data, machine learning algorithms or general algorithm development and knowledge of molecular biology techniques. 

• Experience with data discovery to take an unknown data set and extract meaningful data, performing data acquisition, data cleansing and other data preparation tasks. 

• Advanced knowledge and expertise in supporting scientific researchers and their specialized systems and equipment with a willingness to stay current with advancements in the genomics field. 

• Experienced software developer with multiple programming languages such as but not limited to R, Python, SAS, MATLAB as well as experience with genomic data analysis tools and software. 

• Very strong interpersonal, problem-solving and analytical skills, customer service, result-oriented, and team-building skills are essential with a strong attention to detail and accuracy. 

• Knowledge of ethical and regulatory standards in genomics research. 

• Experience with laboratory information management systems (LIMS). 

Desired Skills: 

• Experience supporting a hospital/clinical, governmental, and/or medical research laboratory environment 

• Structuring data storage technologies including relational and/or NoSQL 

• Using version control systems such as Git and/or GitHub, & software project management systems such as Jira. 

• Java, Python, and /or R certification 

Basic Compensation: $155,000.00 -$ 170,000.00 yearly salary 

The salary offered within this range will be based on the selected candidates’ skills, experience, education, market data, and internal parity. DLH may offer other rewards that may include performance incentives and program-specific awards.  An applicant’s salary history will not be used to determine compensation. 

Benefits: DLH Corp offers our employees an excellent benefits package including - Personal Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, supplemental life with AD&D, short and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, parental leave, legal services and more. We want our employees to save for their future, therefore we offer a 401(k) Retirement Plan, which includes a matching component. DLH is dedicated to your career development, providing training to help drive success, with access to our best-in-class e-learning suite for formal and informal learning, professional and technical certification preparation, and education assistance at accredited institutions.