Senior Software Engineer

Company: Talent Software Services
Location: Rochester
Posted on: February 6, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Senior Software Engineer for a contract position that can be worked 100% remotely. The opportunity will be one year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: The resource will be supporting an engineering team tasked with building out a research data platform which will ingest and make discoverable research generated data.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:Create, verify, and maintain data replication scripts -Create, verify, and maintain data validation, processing, and ingestion pipelines
Deploy and automate the execution of data replication scripts and data pipelines in cloud infrastructure -
Create and maintain data catalogs that describe datasets and their contents (i.e. files, file types, tables/views, columns, fields, etc.)
Create, verify, and maintain dashboards and reports that characterize ingested datasets
Create, verify, and maintain data validation scripts/APIs that verify the production dataset contains the correct number of samples/records, expects values/fields/columns are populated, and values are of the correct data type, format, and range.
Deploy and automate the execution of data validation scripts/APIs
Create and maintain user documentation (dataset descriptions, tutorials, code examples, etc.)
Define entitlements, user groups, roles, and permissions utilized to grant access to datasets

Programming Languages:Primary pipeline development language with be python.
Some datatypes and formats may require the use of other languages (i.e. java, R, etc.) because the libraries/frameworks/sdks available to work with those datatypes and formats are not available in python

Operating Systems:Primary operating system for data pipeline execution will be linux, with data pipelines packaged, deployed, and run as containers.
Data source systems could be windows or linux based.

InfrastructurePrimary data platform and data pipeline execution infrastructure will be hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utilizing cloud native technologies (i.e. Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Google Batch, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, etc.).
Data will be replicated from various on-premises sources that include laboratory instruments, network shared drives, and windows desktops attached to instruments.

Development Tools:Sprints, features, and tasks will be managed in Azure DevOps.
Code will be managed and versioned Azure DevOps based git repositories.
Code will be compiled, packaged, and deployed utilizing Azure DevOps build pipelines.
Data pipelines will be packaged, deployed, and run in docker containers.
Docker containers will be stored and versioned in Google Cloud Artifact Repositories.
Veracode will be utilized to scan source code for vulnerabilities and Prisma Cloud will be utilized to scan containers.
The standard integrated development environment will be jetbrains (pycharm, intellij, etc.) or VSCode.


Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field with 5 years of experience as noted below; OR an Associate's degree in Computer/Science/Engineering or related field with 7 years of experience healthcare related industries.


Preferred:Experience working on healthcare, life science, or scientific research projects -A degree or domain knowledge in a life science related field (biochemistry, genetics, biology, etc)
Experience with Google Cloud Platform based infrastructure and services


If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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