p>Essential Job Functions: • Support the design, development, and implementation of surveillance tools to collect epidemiologic data for Viral Vaccine-Preventable Disease Programs through the following tasks: • Maintain epidemiological and laboratory data by using SAS as well as other data management software packages (e.g., R, REDCap, Microsoft Access, Excel, EpiInfo) • Support the design, development, and implementation of surveillance tools to collect epidemiologic data • Convert existing datasets from a diverse array of file formats (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL, and ASCII files) into SAS datasets • Design, program, test, modify, enhance, maintain, and support new surveillance applications to collect epidemiological data • Develop scripts and software for data manipulation, cleaning, analysis, and visualization (using programming languages such as Python, R, BASH, and SQL) • Develop bioinformatics pipelines using parallel programming capabilities through workflow tools, including Snakemake or Nextflow, on Linux-based high-performance computing environments • Transform data sources into appropriate file formats for bioinformatics/epidemiological studies • Conduct data mining and data curation from public sequence databases to support bioinformatics and molecular epidemiological analyses • Work with and/or develop dashboarding tools, including Power BI, Tableau, and R Shiny, to manage and visualize laboratory and epidemiological data • Submit monthly progress report, detailing achievements and progress on sub-tasks a-i.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Life Sciences, Public Health, or related field • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) • Core experience with analysis of biological datasets encountered in studies of infectious disease (sequencing, protein, phenotype, or other relevant data types) • Experience with selection/evaluation of computational approaches to perform analyses of biomedical data • Experience with interpretation, reporting, and documentation of computational analyses over biological datasets • US Citizen (birth or naturalization).