Bioinformatic Statistician - NIH - Bethesda, MD Job Listing at Kelly Services in Bethesda, MD (Job ID 9437918)

Description

Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world.  We are seeking a Bioinformatic Statistician to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD

This is a long-term contract position which offers:
-    Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package
-    Optional health, vision, and dental plans
-    Vacation leave as well as 10 paid federal holidays and 401K plan.  
-    Access to NIH's unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives


TASKS/SERVICES. The contractor shall: 

1. Attend group meetings; present findings; author publications resulting from projects 
2. Present analysis results at research conferences and meetings
3. Present new research data in group settings, at meetings or seminars 
4. Present scientific and technical data at scientific conferences
5. NIMHD is represented on HHS data and data science workgroups, including the Interdepartmental Health Equity Collaborative for Data; and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development  Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems
6. Generate and optimize programs and scripts for the analysis of data; create programs and algorithms and develop computational infrastructure resources for organizing and parsing data from large and complex data 
7. Serve as bioinformatics expert and coordinate with teams of biologists to conduct experimental queries and/or perform portions of studies using complex procedures and techniques common to modern bioinformatics
8. Coordinate building bioinformatics infrastructure to ensure easy and meaningful scientific analysis and interpretation of data
9. Provide broad-based programming and analytic support for a wide variety of bioinformatic and research projects
10. Install, troubleshoot and run open-source and commercial scientific software on platforms
11. NIMHD provided a leadership role to secure NIH OD funding for and to develop a tool that provides the semantics of common data elements, which is a required basis for the successful adoption and expanded use of CDEs  OMOP, FHIR and ULMS exists for clinical and clinical research purposes  No such source exists for biomedical research SemNet provides an initial platform and will be the source for further development  This resource will be housed on the NIH CDE Repository and enable the expansion and widespread adoption of CDEs for research
12. NIMHD assisted in the development of the NIH internal communication plan to socialize CDE  Perform computational analysis of, and interpret results
13. Provide reports based on analysis of scientific data
14. Perform sequencing and alignment of raw data, and interpret new data using larger public access datasets
15. Provide interpretive analyses of data derived from different experimental platforms to generate biological meaning
16. Write custom programs and algorithms to support data analyses and discovery
17. NIMHD was successful in securing ODSS Strides funding to secure a cloud computing space to address the looming issue of artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm bias The cloud will host federated data sets for investigators of diverse backgrounds to use for research and for the development of resources, tools and methodologies to mitigate AIML biases and to build community trust in cloud computing
18. Collaborate with scientists to design, analyze, manage and interpret all types of data
19. Design and execute computational experiments
20. Work with staff on planning of experiments, and data analysis for internal and collaborative projects; use bioinformatics expertise to advise and help bench scientists on experimental design and trouble-shooting
21. Work with staff to develop specifications for new analysis; design, test and implement solutions
22. Make recommendations to investigators about the correct computational tools for testing scientific hypotheses and reaching valid conclusions
23. Attend scientific and programming meetings; take and compile comprehensive notes; organize and edit content of meeting reports
24. Prepare scientific reports and progress reports; assemble data to prepare tables, graphs and slides; conduct scientific and program related information searches and report results
25. Maintain proper and detailed documentation of the analysis performed and report results at extramural staff meetings
26. Devise novel methods of statistical analysis for collected data
27. Utilize and adapt existing bioinformatics techniques to check for trends and patterns in the data
28. Write complex queries to multiple databases
29. Perform data processing and data analysis with existing computational and statistical methods
30. Assist in evaluating and interpreting results for validity and scientific meaning
31. Create novel programs and algorithms that facilitate discovery of knowledge in investigating large and complex data 
32. Develop and optimize programs and scripts that facilitate organization, integration and data-mining of large data sets; integrate these models into a framework of best practices 
33. Participate in the design of new protocols involving computational methods
34. Work with staff on the development and maintenance of bioinformatics tools, scripts and pipe-lines for data
35. Participate in research design with investigators for determining best practices pertaining to the bioinformatics analysis in new and ongoing projects
36. Research and review literature to retrieve targeted clinical or scientific information, including novel statistical methods, from publicly available resources
37. Collaborate with staff to review current and historical procedures for the acquisition, quality control and management of data
38. Analyze and evaluate data cleaning and harmonization needs in the using a variety of descriptive statistics and analytic methods
39. Identify new tools and resources for reaching biologically meaningful conclusions
40. Collaborate with experimentalists and computational biologists to develop new computational tools to answer research questions of interest
41. Provide training in and technical support including product updates and version control for programs, algorithms, archives, and pipelines generated during the course of this work
42. Instruct staff in computational analysis of data
43. Provide ad hoc trainings and hands-on workshops on the use of bioinformatics tools
44. Provide training of students, new investigators, and other laboratory personnel in the use of techniques, procedures and equipment to complete the objectives of the laboratory
45. Onboard and train staff involved in new clinical trials, including the import of a wide variety of legacy data set; provide rigorous quality control of these data
46. Work with an interdisciplinary team to apply computational data analysis approaches to make biological 
47. Collaborate with group members in experiments associated with data collection
48. Interact with all levels of staff and communicate with outside collaborators in the US and abroad 
49. Work with staff, collaborate with outside researchers, and contribute to positive overall teamwork; teach Bioinformatics principles and methodologies
50. Collaborate with biologists, statisticians and/or other bioinformaticians in the design of models summarizing explaining experimental data  

REQUIREMENTS. The contractor must have: 

1. Ph.D. in Statistics with 10+years of experience
2. Experience with AI, and Knowledge of Big Data Systems for Health.
3. Experience with: Clinical and/or translational research, Work with large data sets, Clinical Data Analysis, Data Quality Control, Data Harmonization, Machine Learning, Data Transfer
4. Knowledge of minority health and health disparities and/or general health.
5. Strong communications skills, both oral and written.
6. Experience with Software such as: Hadoop, Rapid Miner, Cassandra, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, Outlook, STATA, Excel, SPSS, SAS, AI Bias Mitigation Tool, Word

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