Summary

AJANTA CONSULTING, LLC

Wright Patterson AFB

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON BID AWARD

The Data Analyst SME position encompasses the performance of analysis and use systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to manage projects related to the development, deployment and optimization of bioinformatics software tools and pipelines for analyses of Warfighter performance-related biological markers and interventions in both Windows and Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Assist RHB technical staff in the development of research initiatives in accordance with customer needs.

• Perform analysis and use systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to manage projects related to the development, deployment and optimization of bioinformatics software tools and pipelines for analyses of Warfighter performance-related biological markers and interventions in both Windows and Linux environments.

• Support experimental planning, protocol execution, and data collection, coding, and analysis.

• Collaborate with primary investigators and research teams to identify opportunities to automate data analysis, and develop pipelines to produce accurate, standardized, and relevant data required for research objectives.

• Determine how best to accomplish biological science objectives, develop, and evaluate alternatives optimize workflow design, analyze and interpret results, prepare documentation, technical reports, deliver presentations of results, and monitor in-house activities.

• Update/conduct review of scientific literature relevant to RHB technical research initiatives and communicate best evidence to individuals, groups, and colleagues.

• Support development and reporting of competitive, well written, full drafts of research proposals, paper publications, technical reports and presentations.

• Assist with contractual documents preparation, technical reports, and evaluate technical proposals.

• Assist with the preparation, coordination, and submission of protocol-related documents to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).

• Develop and maintain collaborations within and outside of AFRL; maintain technical and programmatic cognizance of outside technological and research projects and programs; reports status to peers and senior technical leaders as required.

• Organize, manage, and participate in workshops and technical exchange meetings as required.

• Support the preparation and execution program initiatives, or other work as required, at the direction and input of RHB technical staff.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in a biological science field, medical field or computer science field.

• Minimum five (5) years of GLP/ISO experience in industry research preferred

• Minimum one (1) year of peer-reviewed publication that includes methodology developed by the contractor employee preferred.

• Minimum five (5) years of demonstrated experience literature search/review skills necessary to determine optimal software and pipeline design.

• Minimum five (5) years of demonstrated experience with content and software specific to Multiomics data pipelines including Whole Genome Sequencing (Next Generation Sequencing), Transcriptomics, Metabolomics, and Proteomics.

• Minimum five (5) years of demonstrated experience with bash or Python scripting languages and coding in a high-performance computing environment.

• Minimum five (5) years of demonstrated experience of iterative code design.

• Minimum four(4) years of demonstrated experience of meticulous documentation for all code and methods.

• Minimum two (2) years of R Shiny experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Possess excellent organizational, management, and communications skills including scientific writing and documentation abilities.

• Possess sufficient demonstrated content and associated software experience for developing various types of data pipelines.

• Possess demonstrated experience shall detail specific software, methods, and data types.

• Possess sufficient demonstrated content and associated software experience for developing various types of data pipelines.

• Familiarity with military and medical terminology, military medical research preferred.

• Experience in various cell biology and molecular biology techniques preferred

• Illumina DRAGEN workflow implementation experience preferred

• Docker experience preferred.

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

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