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Posted: September 30, 2008

Job title:
Software Developer 3/4 Production Sequencing

Company name: DOE Joint Genome Institute

Internal ID: 22253

Location: United States, CA, Walnut Creek

Travel: 0-25%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Help in the Fight Against Global Warming!

The Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) is a
state-of-the-art sequencing center dedicated to advancing genomics research
in support of the DOE missions related to clean energy generation and
environmental characterization and cleanup. The DOE JGI is currently
seeking a talented Software Developer to design, improve and support the
information systems that manage institutional and laboratory operations at
the Production Genomics Facility in Walnut Creek, CA. The selected
candidate will be hired at the Software Developer 3 or 4 classification
level depending upon the candidate's level of experience and
qualifications. Position reports to the Production Informatics Group Lead.

Specific Job Duties

Essential - 
- Work as part of a team to address the needs of the production sequencing
department. This involves a wide range of activities, primarily software
development; but additionally, software quality assurance, modeling
laboratory processes and interacting closely with scientific staff,
supervisors and laboratory workers.
- Integrate new system components with existing facilities and frameworks,
following local and industry standard practices to minimize training and
maintenance costs, ensuring that user interfaces exhibit good usability
characteristics, with particular emphasis on ergonomics. 
- Perform relational database schema design and performance tuning applying
industry practices. 
- Create and maintain database-backed web applications to track, control
and review laboratory and institutional operations. 
- Train customers on the use of new and existing features, individually and
in groups; create supporting materials for training presentations. 
- Provide responsive customer support, assisting users with the prompt
resolution of data entry errors, software malfunctions and other system
needs. 
- Mentor and cross-train other team members in software development and
design. 
- Communicate regularly with customers and supervisory staff about plans,
designs and progress. 
- Follow prescribed practices for software version control, testing and
release engineering. 

Marginal - 
- Propose consolidation and replacement of legacy features with poor
maintainability or usability characteristics demonstrating good judgment
and initiative. 
- Provide recommendations to customers about potential process improvements
or software enhancements that would enhance efficiency, productivity or
safety. 


Required skills:
Essential - 
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related scientific or technical field (or
equivalent experience) and a minimum of five years related experience.
- Working knowledge of Perl, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL and Javascript. 
- Demonstrated experience developing database-backed applications and
experience with web development including: Apache, CGI programming, HTML,
CSS, and AJAX.
- In-depth understanding of principles and practices for effective use of
relational databases particularly Oracle 10g.
- Demonstrated success designing and implementing systems and software in a
scientific or technical environment, e.g., University, National Laboratory,
corporate R&D center or automated manufacturing facility.
- Ability to effectively learn and apply new technology concepts to
troubleshoot and solve problems and challenges of a diverse scope.
- Effective interpersonal communication, public speaking, and presentation
skills. 
- Effective time management, organization, and planning skills. 
- Talent for working well under short deadlines and handling multiple tasks
simultaneously. 
- Ability to work effectively in a diverse team environment. 


Desired skills:
Desired - 
- Working knowledge of UNIX operating systems. 
- Familiarity with Prototype, Yahoo User Interface Library, Scriptaculous
or other common Javascript libraries. 
- Experience with SOAP and web services. 
- Understanding of Oracle mod_plsql, OC4J, and other Oracle application
server technologies. 
- Working knowledge of the Python and Java programming languages. 
- Experience with bioinformatics and genomic science. 
- Understanding of basic statistics.


URL for more information: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/9700#contact