Software Engineer - NIH

Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. The National Institutes of Health is seeking a Software Engineer. This is a long-term, full-time, contract position based in Rockville, MD. This position offers a competitive benefits package.

This is a long-term contract position which offers :

- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package

- Optional health, vision, and dental plans

- Paid leave, paid federal holidays, and 401K plan.

- Access to NIH’s unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides technical experience needed to assist in reviewing, updating, analyzing, and modifying existing programming systems.
• Design, build, and maintain data models and back-end infrastructure to support NCATS Biomedical Data Translator for the Translator Autonomous Relay System (ARS).
• Design, build, and maintain integration infrastructure for other autonomous relay agents (ARAs) developed by Translator collaborators.
• Design and develop algorithms to interrogate and integrate knowledge graphs from multiple ARAs into a coherent answer graph.
• Encodes, tests, debugs, and installs new programs using various programming languages.
• Develop new technologies and support for detailed and consistent data analysis/manipulation, as well as programming support for custom-built scientific applications.
• Develops and schedules data backups, security patches, upgrades, etc.
• Maintain and monitor applications, databases, or software tools.
• Documents all assignments and creates various reports as needed.
• Work with staff on project management tasks for various types of projects within DPI.
• Writes and maintains program documentation.
• Manage Github repositories, documentation (Github wikipages, Google Drive, SharePoint, etc.).
• Documents programming problems and resolutions for future reference.
• Work with colleagues to establish best practices for software development (e.g., continuous integration and continuous deployment).
• Provides assistance with planning, building, and maintaining applications to meet end user needs.
• Work with staff on technical reviews and evaluations of vendor software in support of informatics.
• Troubleshoots any issues or problems and implements appropriate corrective actions.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant applied discipline.
• Minimum of two (2) years of research and software development experience applying systems engineering, agile software development best practices and data-centric principles to design, develop and deploy software applications and services.