Sr. Software Engineer
University of Miami

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Transforming Lives

The University of Miami is among the top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation, and one of the largest private employers in South Florida.

With more than 16,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University is committed to fostering a culture of belonging, where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to add value. Through values of Diversity, Integrity, Responsibility, Excellence, Compassion, Creativity, and Teamwork (DIRECCT) the U community works together to create an environment driven by purpose, excellence, community, and service.

The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has a great opportunity for a Sr. Software Engineer. The Senior Software Engineer designs, modifies, develops, and implements the LINCS Integrated Knowledge Environment (IKE), a web-based platform to federate all LINCS data, signatures, analysis algorithms, data processing pipelines, and other tools in concert with BD2K objectives. The incumbent enables scientists to smoothly perform complex queries and analyses across large, diverse, and disparate datasets.

• Provides technical and project development leadership and oversees overall technical design and implementation.
  
• Supervises and provides technical guidance to junior engineers and coordinates projects across multiple sites.
  
• Develops code in collaboration with other software engineers.
  
• Establishes the release calendar and resolves issues that may impact progress against the calendar.
  
• Develops requirements for new features in collaboration with scientists and other users.
  
• Prioritizes new features and issues based on estimated effort, group skill, and other factors.
  
• Works closely with scientists and others to improve system usability.
  
• Participates in the on-going development of standards and practices and ensures that these practices are applied appropriately on individual projects.
  
• Coordinates computerized information systems solutions for business, engineering, or scientific problems.
  
• Defines and develops practical information system specifications utilizing pseudo-code, flowcharts, block diagrams, and layouts.
  
• Conceives, creates, develops, establishes, and publishes new programming techniques, methods, procedures, and standards, working with basic and advanced applications system design techniques and methodologies.
  
• Confers with end users and studies effectiveness of systems flow, data usage, and manual or automated processes to identify ineffective or inefficient systems.
  
• Determines the economic and operational feasibility of using computerized methods to satisfy information needs and presents proposals for new systems or the enhancement, improvement, or replacement of existing systems.
  
• Maintains awareness of state-of-the-art development tools, programming and problem-solving techniques, and computing equipment.
  
• Participates in certain aspects of end user consulting, systems analysis and design, and vendor contracts.
  

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field
  
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience
  
• Skill in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data.
  
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
  
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.
  

Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

Patient safety is a top priority. As a result, during the Influenza ("the flu") season (September through April), the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine requires all employees who provide ongoing services to patients, work in a location (all Hospitals and clinics) where patient care is provided, or work in patient care or clinical care areas, to have an annual influenza vaccination. Failure to meet this requirement will result in rescinding or termination of employment.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Click here for additional information.

Job Status:
Full time

Employee Type:
Staff

Pay Grade:
i107

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