(senior) software engineer for 'e-Laboratories'

Added on Jan 22, 2010

Employer description

NBIC is the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre. It coordinates much of the academic bioinformatics research in The Netherlands. BioAssist is the NBIC program for BioInformatics support. The program is supported by e-Science research and development activities of various institutes and through international collaborations that NBIC participates in.

Job description

e-Laboratories are web applications for a specific group of researchers based on reusable and interoperable components that can be easily deployed by, in this case, bioinformaticians. In the context of providing e-Science support for the Dutch bioinformatics support program 'BioAssist', you will be responsible for building infrastructure and tooling for e-laboratories, and participate in projects that deploy these. You will be part of a project team of industrial strength software engineers using professional software engineering practice in an academic environment. You collaborate with the central engineering team of BioAssist, the myGrid development team in the UK, and expert users associated with BioAssist. BioAssist application areas include genomics, proteomics, biobanking, and systems biology. Your job includes implementation, user support, and eventually extends to technical project management. The initial contract is for 2 years. Your main location will be the Human Genetics Department of the Leiden University Medical Centre, one of the main hubs in the genomics and the BioBanking community. You will also work 'on location' for the deployment of specific e-Laboratories or when developing core components with other software engineers.

Job requirements

Essential

  • The ambition and ability to become our e-Laboratory expert and technical lead.
  • Excellence in Software Engineering
  • Experience in one or more modern programming languages, particularly Java
  • Fluency in English; both written and spoken

 

Preferred

  • Experience with the following:
    - Web technologies such as Ruby on rails and portal frameworks such as LifeRay
    - Service Oriented Architecture and application frameworks such as Tomcat and Spring
    - Agile Software Development
    - Development frameworks such as Maven
    - Semantic Web
  • Background in a life sciences field
  • Willingness to learn and share knowledge
  • A social and communicative personality
  • Flexible academic work ethic
  • Commercial quality standards

Job benefits

  • An interesting job interacting with an international network of academic biologists and informatics experts
  • A High-Tech interdisciplinary work environment
  • An international, dynamic and friendly team
  • A competitive financial package

Apply information

If you are interested in this position you can send your application to Marco Roos with 'Job Application e-Laboratory engineer' in the subject of your E-mail. For more information about this position, please also contact Marco Roos:

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