What are the responsibilities and job description for the RESEARCHER SENIOR LEAD position at The University of Alabama at Birmingham?
Position Summary
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Biology, is in search of a dedicated Researcher Senior Lead to join their team. The Researcher Senior Lead will work as a database engineer and application developer embedded in an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team supported by an NIH U19 award that is aiming to integrate large-scale datasets from free-ranging nonhuman primates, including single-cell and bulk-tissue multi-omic data, immune phenotyping, social-network phenotypes, longitudinal physiological measures, survival, and reproductive outcomes. The Researcher Senior Lead will serve as the application development lead of Cayo Hub, the data management and informatics core of the U19, and coordinate with other Cayo Hub team members and the broader U19 researcher community to extend and develop software tools that support data intake, management, curation, and analysis. These tools will be essential in identifying molecular and environmental drivers of inter-individual and within-individual variation in biological aging across tissues, organ systems, and the life course.
General Responsibilities
As a Researcher Senior Lead, you will be at the forefront of research leadership, guiding the overall research strategy and overseeing the execution of multiple high-impact projects. This emerging leader role demands exceptional expertise and visionary thinking, with responsibilities including securing major funding, influencing research policy, and driving innovation. You will lead large, interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the highest standards of scientific excellence and significantly impacting the field. Depending on the research focus, this position may involve research collaborator contact, research animal contact, and/or specimens.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Lead the collaborative expansion of an existing project database.
Lead the development of associated interfaces, such as application programming interfaces (APIs), for accessing and visualizing project data.
Lead the development of web-based user interfaces for dissemination and visualization of behavioral and biological data.
Collaborate with a multi-institution team to coordinate the development of intake pipelines for previous and newly generated data and metadata not yet in the database.
Collaborate with a multi-institution group of researchers and data engineers to shape workflows and practices for data; coordinate weekly office hours to offer feedback to collaboration researchers.
Collaborate with a multi-institution group of researchers and data engineers to conduct quality control and establish procedures and pipelines for flagging or correcting errors.
Assist in organization of working group meetings discussing data integration practices and challenges involving broader research community stakeholders.
Coordinate regular online meetings with development team members as well as broader project leadership to provide development updates and ensure the meeting of project milestones.
Lead the development and documentation of technical reports, white papers, data summaries, data use agreements, and other written products for the researcher community.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Salary Range: $ 63,875- $ 103,800
Qualifications
Doctorate degree in a related field and one (1) year of related experience OR Master's degree in a related field and three (3) years of related experience OR Bachelor's degree in related field and five (5) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.
Preferences
Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, computational biology, bioinformatics, or related fields.
Demonstrated interest in genomics, evolutionary biology, quantitative biology, aging biology, or related areas.
Three years of experience in software development.
Strong leadership and managerial skills, particularly in collaborative software development.
Proficiency with relational (e.g., SQL) and NoSQL database design.
Proficiency with web design and web programming (e.g., JavaScript, PHP, Golang).
Experience developing application programming interfaces (APIs).
Creative problem-solving skills.
Familiarity with reproducible computational workflows and version control.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
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Salary : $63,875 - $103,800