Date limit
16-11-2022
Institution
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 770 staff from 55 countries.
Context And Mission
ELIXIR (European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information) is a pan-European organization founded in 2014 which aims to integrate and harmonize European bioinformatics infrastructures. ELIXIR coordinates the participation of more than 20 countries, engages with other strategic European initiatives and projects e.g. ESFRI, Research Data Alliance, EUDat, EGI; promotes specific training activities and workshops on ELIXIR resources, partners with industry, and play a key role in shaping the bioinformatics landscape. Spain has been a member of ELIXIR since 2015, with the INB as the Spanish national node. Within ELIXIR, the INB is responsible for the bioinformatics infrastructure offered by Spain and therefore, should guarantee its alignment to the strategic areas put forward by ELIXIR.
Indeed, the INB was renovated for the period 2018 – 2021 with two overarching objectives: to increase the alignment of its activities with ELIXIR and increase the translational impact of INB actions on the Spanish National Health System (SNS). For the latter objective, the INB has created and supported TransBioNet (Translational Bioinformatics Network) which aims to structure, bring together and work with bioinformatics groups in healthcare settings with a particular focus on the Health Research Institutes (IIS) recognized by the ISCIII. Since 2021, the INB has continued its activities in the context of the IMPaCT-Data programme. IMPaCT is the recently launched Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine associated with Science and Technology by the ISCIII.
OpenEBench, an initiative developed within the ELIXIR European infrastructure, aims to provide a permanent platform to support benchmarking in bioinformatics. OpenEBench provides, on one hand, support to scientific communities to perform a critical evaluation of the scientific performance of methods and tools in specific domains. On the other hand, OpenEBench maintains a Tools Monitoring section, holding updated metadata for bioinformatics tools extracted from data sources like bio.tools, bioconda, and Galaxy among others, and providing live analysis of a number of metrics regarding availability, documentation or license availability, among others. The ultimate goal of OpenEBench is to provide an observatory of the quality of the Life Sciences research software, which can provide an overall view of the field and support the generation of development best practices and their progressive adoption.
Key Duties
- Take the lead in the design and implementation of the OpenEBench visual interfaces
- Develop, document and maintain software for the integration and biological data, following the guidelines of ELIXIR.
- Maintain communication with ELIXIR platforms, communities, and management, and participate in their regular meetings and discussions.
- Contribute to supervising junior members at the INB/ELIXIR-ES units.
Requirements
- Education
- BSc or MSc. in bioinformatics, computational biology or computer sciences with significant experience in the development of visual interfaces.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- At least 3 years of professional experience in a similar role
- At least 3 years of experience with web development frameworks like Vue.JS, Angular, React or similar
- At least 2 years of User-Centered Design experience
- Experience in database design and management (SQL and NoSQL): MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite or similar; MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra or similar
- Experience with advanced software packaging procedures.
- Experience in software quality management.
- Experience working with Unix/Linux systems.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in the development, generation and use of software containers e.g. Docker, Singularity and/or rkt, as well as their orchestration using docker-compose, Kubernetes, ansible and/or similar technologies
- Experience in developing project technical specifications
- Competences
- The ability to understand scientific literature, and software documentation
- Ability to communicate scientific results
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to represent the team in international project meetings
- Used to work under pressure under strict deadlines
Conditions
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, fully support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
- Starting date: asap
Applications procedure and process
All applications must be made through BSC website (application form at the end of the page) and contain:
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered
In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment@bsc.es.
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Deadline
The vacancy will remain open until suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.
OTM-R principles for selection processes
BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R). This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment planels and recognizing career breaks etc.
BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
For more information follow this link
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