Full Job Description: Data Management and Database Developer
POSITION TITLE: Postdoc researcher (Ph.D.) or Research Associate (MS degree)
Duties: Development of a data management system for big data storage and retrieval

LOCATION: Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI 49931, USA (Working remotely may be considered)
JOB TYPE: Full-Time
SALARY: ~$60,000/Year based on experience

QUALIFICATIONS

Expected experience (Applicants with the following experience are encouraged to apply. Applicants with MS degree with experience are also encouraged to apply)

• Education – Ph.D. degree required; degree in computer science, bioinformatics, computational engineering, and other STEM majors preferred. MS degree in above field with relevant experience are also be considered;

• Experience with DNA sequence data preprocessing and analysis is a plus;

• Know SQL, PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript, Perl, and C/C++ to develop data management system, web application, and create pipelines for queries and data retrieval;

• Familiarity with relational database management systems – SQL, non-relational database (NoSQL), for example, MongoDB and Cassandra;

• Manages the database, the duties include creation, alteration, deletion, and copying of schemas, databases, tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, triggers, and declarative integrity constraints;

• Explore the cloud computing using AWS, Azure, or Google cloud;

• Can work independently & collaboratively with limited guidance in a small team setting;

• English Fluency –be able to speak, write, and understand English.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Determine how data should be structured, stored, and integrated with existing IT systems;

• Design new infrastructure, build data preprocessing pipelines, and collect and organize structured and unstructured sources of information;

• Clean and check quality of data;

• Develop Web application and integrate of other tools for data analysis;

• Generation of statistics, reports, presentations, and visualizations;

• Explore the Cloud computing and tools to analyze the data in the storage;

Please submit your CV and the names of three references to Prof. Hairong Wei ([email protected] )