A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally.  Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world’s most distinguished academic health systems.  In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

1. Applications Programs
   1. Conducts, and coordinates the design, build, and implementation of cutting-edge software tools that interface between major systems to optimize integration and efficiency.
   2. Execute a full spectrum of software development tasks including coding, debugging, optimizing, and documentation.
   3. Provide expert advice and technical consultation, leveraging advanced techniques to tackle complex programming challenges. 
   4. Mentor team members and refine standards to advance programming, analysis, and documentation efforts.
   5. Evaluate existing and emerging technologies to recommend the most effective solutions for software applications, ensuring optimal system performance and innovative problem solving.
   6. Provide operational support for existing data workflows and software applications as needed.
   7. Monitor and make changes to data workflow and software tools to achieve maximum productivity and quality.
   8. Work with the DGG informatics leadership to implement test development and validation of protocols and methodologies. 
   9. Execute software validation plans to support data processing pipeline and tooling validation efforts.
2. Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Compliance
   1. Responsible for monitoring test analyses to ensure that acceptable levels of analytic performance are maintained.
   2. Assure that all remedial actions are taken, or appropriate escalation is initiated, when test systems deviate from established performance specifications.
   3. Coordinate, and participate in monitoring the Quality Assurance Program. 
   4. Assists with compliance of regulatory agency (i.e., CLIA, CAP) rules and regulations and implements changes as needed. 
3. Management
   1. Collaborate with division colleagues to identify areas for operational improvement. Work with DGG leadership to recommend and plan future change. 
   2. Work with DGG leadership to identify achievable goals and objectives for the section.
   3. Take an active part in introducing new bioinformatics procedures, and identifying software tools that may reduce operational friction and/or enhance assay performance.
   4. Work with division directors to perform cost analysis and justification of data processing systems and improvements. 
   5. Keep lab manager and division directors informed of problems or changes in procedures that impact the section or shift.
4. Operational oversight:
   1. Personnel
      1. New personnel
         1. Participate in interviews and selection of potential employees.
         2. Provides or coordinates orientation/onboarding to lab and department policies to all testing personnel.
      2. Training, Competency, and Education
         1. Fulfill and assist employees with departmental continuing education requirement.
         2. Evaluate training of all personnel. 
         3. May teach software development skills as appropriate. 
      3. Discipline
         1. Provide timely and constructive feedback.  Participate in the resolution of employee grievances. Coach, and counsel as necessary.
         2. Enforce policy such as attendance, dress code, code of conduct. 
      4. Staff Engagement
         1. Work with DGG informatics leadership to determine appropriate performance objectives for each team member and conduct formal reviews quarterly. Evaluate employee skills and assess educational and training needs.
         2. Involved with Staff engagement activities and surveys to provide an environment which motivates and enriches staff.
5. Departmental Responsibilities
   1. Serve as technical resource person for staff, pathology operations, Mlab clients and other outside institutions.
   2. Working knowledge of the departmental document control system, laboratory information systems, and other business systems.
6. Other duties as assigned.

In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, bioinformatics, computer science, or related discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• 7 to 10 years of increasingly complex business programming experience in a business environment is required.
• A strong work ethic, a desire to learn, and a positive attitude.
• Proficiency with at least one scripting language (preferably Python)
• Experience using software version control tools (e.g., gitlab, github, bitbucket) to manage development and production code.
• Experience working with container orchestration tools (e.g., Docker).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Requires frequent standing, walking, and sitting for long periods of time.

• Experience with implementing CI/CD frameworks (e.g., CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Experience with Designing, building, and/or scaling SQLServer, MySQL, or Postgres databases.
• Experience with designing and implementing production-grade RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with building and deploying software applications in HIPAA-compliant compute environment.
• Dedicated front-end or back-end software development expertise.
• Experience leveraging cloud compute resources (e.g. AWS, GCP) to support data processing pipelines and/or web applications.
• Familiarity with next generation sequencing workflow management frameworks (e.g., Nextflow, Snakemake).
• Experience building high-quality data visualization approaches for data-rich web applications.

This full time, 40 hour position is on the day shift, it will participate in a rotating on call work schedule which will include off hours, weekends and holidays in the event of an emergent situation.

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

A $5000.00 signing bonus may be available.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.