The Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) section of General Internal Medicine is uniquely positioned within Johns Hopkins to help design, build, and deploy novel translational research applications that strive to improve research data workflow, research outcomes, and knowledge discovery in health. Our activities focus on turning real world data into data support for research analytics: visualization tools, improving workflows and cross-team collaboration, source-system data utilization, and informatics education.

Our team frequently works with data from multiple organizations representing divergent sources including EMRs, clinical research management systems, registries, researcher-curated data, claims data and public health systems. The data produced and supported through our complex data acquisition, harmonization and deployment processes are critical to our translational research, precision care delivery and public health research operations.

Our team is looking for a skilled Software Engineer to help us create an integrated suite of tools that can be used to integrate knowledge from multiple domains in order to discover new causes of and treatments for disease. While a successful candidate's primary focus will be on software and software engineering, they will play an active role in the design and direction of the overall project.

We are looking for an individual who is, Motivated and excited to learn: Our group often finds itself on the leading (bleeding) edge of software tools and methodology. A successful candidate should be able to adapt to new environments, approaches, tools and, when necessary, to be able to extend an existing tool for a new purpose or, if necessary, develop an entirely new approach to solve a problem. Self-directed: A successful candidate needs to be able to set self directed timelines and achieve team goals but, at the same time, is willing and able to ask for guidance and assistance when uncertainty arises. Able to thrive in a loosely structured research-oriented environment. Willing to learn OHDSI community tech stacks and OMOP CDM to apply to real-world health data ETL process using various terminologies to produce reliable analytics. Willing to learn various data partner source common data models (PCORnet, ACT i2b2, TriNetX, OMOP) Willing to learn biomedical coding systems and controlled vocabularies used in primary data sources such as LOINC, ICD, CPT4, SNOMED, MedDRA.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Python or SQL Software Development 

• A significant portion of this work will involve developing and enhancing software in the Python 3 environment.
• Candidate will have solid Python 3 skills and be comfortable with the latest Python 3 libraries and tools.
• Candidate will create, document, publish, distribute and maintain software libraries.
• Write code in SQL and Python to curate high volume EHR data transformations from disparate data sources and common data models into canonical formats including OHDSI/OMOP.
• Build ETL pipeline - Stepwise data extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) pipeline tasks written in SQL and Python scripts. Manage data pipeline using a unified framework within Foundry to ingest and harmonize all incoming clinical or COVID-19 EHR data from the participating data partners
• RESTful Web Services - Candidate must have (or develop) a solid understanding of the principles of RESTful web services and be able to consume, create, document and deploy RESTful APIs.
• Terminologies and terminology services – Candidate must have experience with terminology services and terminology service standards.
• HL7 FHIR – we are using FHIR, transforming FHIR and helping create new FHIR standards. Much of the work will be involved in various aspects of this environment, so familiarity would be beneficial and specifically with HAPI FHIR.
• Apply problem solving abilities, creativity, and technical skills to determine solutions to drive a real impact in the world of healthcare.
• Create, publish, distribute and maintain software libraries
• Write software documentation
• Write well-structured, readable, and commented code
• Write unit tests

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders, including highly collaborative, multi-PI grants, faculty, academic leadership, and staff.
• Must possess excellent facilitation, consensus-building, and diplomacy skills.
• Must flourish in a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment.
• Ability to move about or sit for an extended period of time

• Bachelor's Degree
• Five years related experience. (Direct programming experience while pursuing education may count towards related experience. Significant undergraduate programming coursework or independent project can be considered as related experience.)

• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Familiarity with Biology and Genomics is preferred.

Classified Title: Software Engineer   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE  
Starting Salary Range: $71,230-$97,880-124,500 Annually (Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: M-F; 8:30-5:00 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Remote 
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM DOM GIM BIDS  
Personnel area: School of Medicine 

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate's conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

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