Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) in partnership with Medical Science and Computing (MSC) is searching for a Senior Principal Program Manager (PPE) to support National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.
The PPE will direct SeqArch technical leads and teams working on SRA to ensure architectural cohesion and collaboration on development plans. PPE works in close coordination with SRA product owner and is responsible for all phases of software development from vision, architecture and design to implementation, production rollout and operations. PPE reports to SeqArch TPM and advances technology roadmap outlined by CTO.
NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a senior software developer to help architect and deliver cloud-based bioinformatics pipelines for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more.
We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
- Definition of SRA technical vision, architecture, and roadmap
- Ensure high-quality and on-time technical components delivery
- Coordinate planning, tracking priorities, and software delivery between SRA development teams
- Developing and enforcing NCBI standard practices for software development and delivery
- Working with TPM, CTO and Director of SD to define a coherent strategy to modernize SRA platforms and infrastructure, including, but not limited to defining DevOps practices and Cloud computing
- Bachelor of Science Degree
- Minimum 8-10+ years’ related experience.
- A track record of managing software development teams working on highly available, high-traffic web applications
- Ability to translate business requirements into sustainable, current architecture and designs
- Ability to troubleshoot technical and staffing roadblocks, anticipate and plan risk mitigations for future challenges and communicate clearly at an executive level
- Experience introducing and managing Agile software development practices
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and modern web client frameworks
- Experience developing data and document submission interfaces and processing pipelines
- Experience implementing DevOps practices
Top Skills
What We Do
Official account of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. NCBI serves as an international resource for the scientific research community - providing access to public databases and software tools for analyzing biological data, as well as performing research in computational biology.
The NCBI was established in 1988 by an act of the United States Congress as division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, with a mission to find new approaches to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of biological data in order to facilitate the understanding of genes and their role in health and disease.
The NCBI is made up of multidisciplinary research and development teams composed of molecular biologists, biochemists, structural biologists, clinicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists who:
Archive: Gather scientific and medical research data from around the globe
• Serve as the largest repository of the world’s primary biological research data
• Produce curated datasets to enhance the value and usability of the primary data
Access: Develop systems for discovering and integrating scientific and medical data
• Create search tools and data cross-referencing mechanisms
• Display and enable download of information from the world's largest collection of biological data
Advance: Promote understanding of processes that effect health and disease
• Perform cutting-edge research in computational biology
• Design and build algorithms, programs and systems for analysis of biological data
• Provide support and training through a varied and vigorous outreach program
