Data engineer, Visualisation - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University (www.igp.uu.se) has a broad research profile with strong research groups focused on cancer, autoimmune and genetic diseases. A fundamental idea at the department is to stimulate translational research and thereby closer interactions between medical research and health care. Research is presently conducted in the following areas: medical and clinical genetics, clinical immunology, pathology, neuro-oncology, vascular biology, radiation science and molecular tools. Department activities are also integrated with the units for Oncology, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Pathology, and Hospital Physics at Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala. The department has teaching assignments in several education programmes, including Master Programmes, at the Faculty of Medicine, and in a number of educations at the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology. The department has a yearly turnover of around SEK 420 million, out of which more than half is made up of external funding. The staff amounts to approximately 345 employees, out of which 100 are PhD-students, and there are in total more than 700 affiliated people.

SciLifeLab is a national centre for molecular biosciences focusing on health and environmental research. The centre combines leading technical expertise with advanced knowledge in translational medicine and molecular biosciences. The goal of SciLifeLab also includes building a strong research community around itself through education and collaboration. SciLifeLab is a national resource run by Karolinska Institutet (KI), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Stockholm University and Uppsala University. SciLifeLab was founded in 2010 and currently has more than 400 employees at the various facilities and about 150 research groups.

The successful candidate will be working at the SciLifeLab Data Centre, a central unit with responsibility for IT- and data management issues, serving the SciLifeLab technology platforms, their users and Swedish researchers in general. We have a national assignment and, for example, operates the Swedish national Covid-19 research data portal. We also work with issues about FAIR data, open science, and data driven life science. Working at the Data Centre, you will be at the core of Sweden’s top infrastructure for life sciences and have the opportunity to actively shape how state-of-the-art IT and data science are integrated in Swedish life science research, and help to maximize the scientific impact of the large amount of research data generated at SciLifeLab.

Job description: SciLifeLab Data Centre is looking for a motivated and knowledgeable Data Engineer with expertise in visualization and design. You will work with data from genomics, proteomics, microscopy, chemical biology and several other areas, but also operational and scientometric data from bibliometry, performance indicators, financial data, etc. You will work integrated with a team of scientists, coordinators data engineers and system developers at the core of SciLifeLab’s national research infrastructure. This position includes development of data-driven decision support systems for management and operations with analysis and visualisation of reporting data, development of graphical web services and dashboards, and analysis of retrieved data from SciLifeLab software and hardware systems. This position also includes design of graphical user interfaces, web services and documentation.

During the first year, this position is tightly linked to the Swedish national Covid-19 data portal operated by the team, https://covid19dataportal.se, in collaboration with European infrastructures (EMBL-EBI, ELIXIR and EOSC).

Qualifications: This job requires a university degree in a relevant subject area. In addition is required:

• Documented experience from data analysis.
• Documented experience from methods, libraries, tools and frameworks for data visualisation.
• Documented programming skills in Python, Ruby, Javascript or other high level languages.
• Fluency in English.

Meriting:

• Experience from project management
• Experience from software containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience from systems for documentation and version control.
• Knowledge or interest in biomedical research and infrastructure.
• Ability to work both individually and in cooperation with personnel in widely different fields.
• Drive and initiative to support and develop data driven life science in Sweden.

Personal suitability will strongly affect the recruitment for this position.

Salary: Individual salary.

Starting date: As soon as possible.

Type of employment: Permanent position, probationary period may be applied.

Scope of employment: 100 %

For further information about the position please contact: Johan Rung, johan.rung@scilifelab.uu.se, 018-471 4475. 

Please submit your application by July 31 2020, UFV-PA 2020/2656.

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