Programmer Analyst II

Job ID: req3402
Employee Type: exempt full-time
Division: Vaccine, Immunity and Cancer
Facility: Frederick: ATRF
Location: 8560 Progress Dr, Frederick, MD 21701 USA

The Frederick National Laboratory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. The lab addresses some of the most urgent and intractable problems in the biomedical sciences in cancer and AIDS, drug development and first-in-human clinical trials, applications of nanotechnology in medicine, and rapid response to emerging threats of infectious diseases.

Accountability, Compassion, Collaboration, Dedication, Integrity and Versatility; it's the FNL way.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Vaccine, Immunity and Cancer Directorate investigates immune responses to vaccines in preclinical and clinical studies, with a focus on HPV and more recently on SARS-CoV-2. As part of a large effort to combat the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is collaborating with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Frederick National Laboratory (FNL) and other stakeholders to develop assays with the highest reproducibility, sensitivity, and specificity for evaluation of immune responses against this new virus. To address gaps and unmet needs in serology assay development and standardization and to gain a solid fundamental knowledge of the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and underlying mechanisms of protection against infection, NCI has established the Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet), which includes the Frederick National Laboratory (FNL) Serology Lab, leveraging the vast expertise and excellence in HPV serology at the FNL.
The Center of Excellence for Serology Development and Emergency Preparedness (CESDEP) is a new program to provide both a more targeted and global response to the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, requiring innovative thinking, outreach and partnership with global leaders. CESDEP will leverage and deploy the knowledge from SeroNet to bring high quality, precision biomarker assays to the cancer and HIV clinics to help combat SARS-CoV-2 in those most vulnerable.

KEY ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES

This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to participate in the creation of a complex IT system in a high-visibility program. Components of the system will interface with clinical data stores, public databases, and researchers. The successful applicant will help orchestrate subcontractors and Federal stakeholder input to produce a smoothly operating, distributed data management system that maintains patient privacy, while providing research data to the scientific community.

Specific duties of the Programmer Analyst II, CESDEP will include:

• Will work closely with NCI and LBR program leadership and facilitate the effort to build and integrate systems to support the CESDEP project.
• Collaborate with internal and external IT groups to store key clinical and specimen data from multiple sites.
• Collaborate to develop a data repository that supports a dashboard so that donor metadata and test result data are readily accessible and viewable in real-time to support overall project decision making, particularly by ensuring that accrual goals and milestones based on patient diversity and cancer type are met.
• Work closely with other NCI/LBR IT groups and subcontractors to support development and/or maintenance of
• 1) a website/portal; 2) an online catalog for distribution of biospecimens to researchers, 3) an online electronic consent tool; and 4) integration of data with the appropriate NCI data repositories.
• Assist in ensuring security requirements for the IT infrastructure supporting this program are met, specifically the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 rev 4, including security controls required for a FIPS-199 FISMA moderate system.
• Assist in developing and implementing project management standard operating procedures based on Project Management Institute best practices and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC).
• Assist as required in the design and implementation of data transfer scripts to facilitate secure movement of data between certain Biobank system components.
• Perform other duties as needed to ensure the success of the program.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• Possession of a BS or higher degree from an accredited college/university according to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in a field related to biomedical research (Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education).
• Foreign degrees must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency.
• In addition to educational requirements, a minimum of two (2) years progressively responsible job-related experience.
• Experience in the agile software development process, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and how to fit those into the waterfall environment of EPLC. Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of clinical systems involved in the collection and handling of clinical data,
• Experience in designing and developing web applications using one of, or a combination of, the following languages, design patterns, or frameworks: J2EE, MVC, Groovy, Grails, and Spring Security.
• Experience in Oracle database programming using SQL and Hibernate.
• Working knowledge of data modeling and object relational mapping.
• Proficiency with basic web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, REST, JSON, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX and Foundation.
• Skills in text search technologies (e.g. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr).
• Familiarity with Linux commands, SVN, GitHub, NetBeans, Apache Tomcat, and reporting tools such as JasperReports.
• Excellent oral and written skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:

• M.S. in a field related to biomedical research.
• Experience involving IT in health care or life sciences that includes developing IT projects in support of federal government contracts.
• Bioinformatics experience with Big Data generated by high-throughput genomics and proteomics assays
• Database experience with Oracle.
• Familiarity with DevOps, continuous integration, and security tools such as Travis, Jenkins, Docker, Nessus, Appscan.
• Knowledge of data cloud systems (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).
• Knowledge of infrastructure used to support clinical trials as well as biobanking systems.
• Knowledge of FISMA requirements, especially FISMA and NIST 800-53 rev 4, and familiarity with security controls required for a FIPS-199 FISMA moderate system.

EXPECTED COMPETENCIES

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix and team‐oriented environment.
• Ability to identify and solve complex problems.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) | Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V) | Drug Free Workplace (DFW)
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