• Employment Type: Full Time
• Shift: Days
• Location: Boston, MA

Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) (www.tuftsctsi.org), one of more than 60 organizations supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), was established in 2008 to transform the biomedical research process through education, promoting collaboration, and the provision of research infrastructure and support services. Tufts CTSI accelerates the translation of laboratory research into clinical use, medical practice, and health policy. In addition to its work with Tufts University, Tufts Medical Center, and other partner organizations, Tufts CTSI contributes to the national CTSA Consortium.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right applicant to make an impact on the future of health care by joining the Health Informatics Program at Tufts CTSI. You will join the team that facilitates open science, develops data assets, innovates new methods, and implements solutions and workflows for knowledge generation, sharing, and delivery to the point of care or dissemination to inform policies. We integrate health care and research support, and work with observational data generated from health care settings including EHR, location-based (GIS), claims, device and other data types.

You will join the team of likeminded individuals and will work on cutting edge initiatives such as developing the research infrastructure in the cloud environment, extending the content and functionality of a clinical research data warehouse and cloud architecture development, you will have the opportunity to explore and contribute to development of novel approaches to data integration, support the research community locally and nationally through the research networks such as N3C, in their data needs in collaboration with other technical team members.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Responsible for executing software development initiatives.

Implementation

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to understand requirements and design solutions
• Evaluate options and develop technical design
• Develop solution using appropriate programming language and/or technical tools
• Complete thorough testing of solution
• Provide input to the development of integrated test plan
• Execute integrated test plan
• Provide input to the development of LIVE plan
• Support LIVE activities

Ongoing Enhancements and Support

• Build enhancements to current functionality using appropriate programming language and/or technical tools
• Perform detailed testing of software updates and upgrades
• Communicate in a friendly and professional manner, share the ideas, solutions, the approach, risks, and impacts, set appropriate expectations for the development timeline
• Participate in after-hours on call support rotation for one or more applications which generate Incidents outside of business hours.
• Participate in cross-training, as a trainer and a learner, for personal development and to ensure adequate secondary coverage on all applications

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong interpersonal skills demonstrated through prior work experience.
• The ideal candidate has strong software development skills; able to deploy and debug software of varying scope and stack; must be able to work in a team environment as a member and a facilitator; has the ability to manage own time effectively; and able to perform some work independently. Additionally, the candidate must be highly motivated and willing to learn and adopt to new, leading-edge technologies. The candidate must possess excellent analytical, problem-solving skills, along with strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills. Lastly, the candidate must be comfortable interacting with colleagues within the Tufts CTSI network and within the broader research community.

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Knowledge and experience developing, deploying, and maintaining systems inside of both AWS and Azure;
• Knowledge of development and maintenance of small to medium-scale ETL processes, ETL tools, ideally within a biomedical environment.
• Strong working knowledge of either one of or all: R, Python, MS SQL. Knowledge of other languages is a plus.
• Some familiarity with large scale observational research methods and practices OMOP CDM and OHDSI Tool Stack experience preferred.
• Familiarity with common data models in used in distributed health sciences research networks.
• Familiarity with HL7, FHIR interface.
• The successful candidate must be comfortable using Windows- and Linux-based operating systems.
• Thorough understanding of software development life cycle
• Excellent customer service orientation
• Flexibility and can-do attitude

MINIMUM EDUCATION:

Degree in Computer science, bioinformatics, or similar discipline.

EXPERIENCE:

• Graduate degree and 4-6 years of experience in the DevOps, healthcare, or data science, related field
• An equivalent combination of education and experience that exhibits proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed above may be substituted for the above requirement

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

This is a full-time position with normal working hours 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Participation in on-call rotation in support of Tufts CTSI-related applications can be expected.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES STATEMENT:

Must be able to perform all essential functions of this position with reasonable accommodation if disabled.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Tufts Medical Center reserves the right to modify position duties at any time, to reflect process improvements and business necessity.

COVID-19 POLICY:

Please note that effective October 1, 2021, as a condition of employment at Tufts Medical Center, all employees and new hires must have received their complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have been granted an exemption.