Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Technical Lead - Program Principal Engineer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.
As a Program Principal Engineer, you will be directing Technical Leads and Teams to ensure architectural cohesion and collaboration within the program; for assigned projects, you will be responsible for all phases of software development, from vision, architecture, and design, to implementation, production rollout, and operations. You will collaborate with the Program Head, Technical Program Manager, and other Program Principal Engineers across programs, forming close relationships to enable effective communication, encouraging staff growth and knowledge sharing, guiding technological innovation, and ensuring sustainable software development practices and service delivery. Your contributions will have direct impact on prominent offerings, supporting researchers in finding, browsing, and downloading genomic data, such as virus and pathogen detection resources that help researchers study common diseases, combat pandemics (SARS-CoV-2, H1N1), and provide surveillance to prevent outbreaks from food-borne, hospital-acquired, and other clinically infectious pathogens.
Responsibilities include:
- Manage the efforts of the program's software development team in an Agile framework
- Work with a diverse group of scientists, bioinformaticians and other developers across the center to implement efficient bioinformatics algorithms
- Provide work estimates for development tasks
- Ensure on-schedule delivery of software solutions for the product line and organization
- Manage the development lifecycle of software for assigned products
- Research new technologies in pursuit of advancing the goals of the program and product line
- Direct and coordinate the actions of the development team
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team
- Act as a liaison between the development team and program leadership
- Create and maintain technical documentation related to the product line
- Ensure high code quality for software development tasks
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate may or may not be a United States citizen and must have at least a Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
We are looking for an individual with:
- A proven track record of managing an Agile software development team
- Experience working with highly available, high traffic web applications
- The ability to translate business requirements into executable software development tasks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to troubleshoot technical and staffing roadblocks and mitigate resource risks
Required Skills:
- Software development experience in a Linux environment (5+ Years)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, C, C++)
- Experience working with Cloud data storage and processing platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (BASH, Python)
- Experience working with SQL databases
- Ability to work with common structured documents (XML, JSON, CSV)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration, and regression testing
- Strong presentation and collaboration skills
- Experience coaching team members
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with genetic and biological data
- Experience with software packaging and distribution, including Docker or other containerization mechanisms
- Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL database technology
- Experience with workflow engines, particularly scientific workflows and DataOps
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!
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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
