Senior technician for the development of computational applications for the JACARDI project

The Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.) (CNIC) has been conceived to develop research of excellence, competitive and of international relevance in relation to cardiovascular diseases. The CNIC has a research center of 24,000 m², located in Madrid, with more than 6,000 m² for laboratories equipped with a state-of-the-art infrastructure and equipment.

Functions:

The selected candidate will work on the implementation of a pilot dedicated to the standardization, harmonization and integration of databases on CV disease across different European countries, in the context of the Joint Action for Cardiovascular disease and Diabetes (JACARDI). He/she will have the following tasks:

• To develop ETL (Extraction, transformation, loading) routines to be implemented in national registries for the standardization of clinical data into common data models. 
• To implement a hybrid federated system to integrate different sources of information on cardiovascular disease and diabetes across Europe
• To contribute in the development of a web-tool to simulate the impact of public health policies in the reduction of the prevalence of CVD and diabetes across Europe.
• To develop containers that can display the tools developed within the pilots.

 This project has received funding from the EU4Health Programme 2021-2027 under Grant Agreement 101126953. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Mandatory Requirements

1.  PhD in Bioinformatics, Informatics, Molecular Biology or similar areas.
2. At least 5 years working in biomedical research centers (3 years and 4 months for disable people greater than 66% and 4 years and 2 months for disable people greater than 33%).

 Valuable Requirements:

• C1. Experience in administration of GNU/Linux systems and HPC infrastructure. Advanced experience in GNU/Linux system administration, management and use of HPC clusters, queuing systems (SGE, SLURM), management of computational and GPU resources, distributed storage and computing, and infrastructure monitoring.
• C2. Experience in programming (Python, R, Perl, C++, bash scripting and other relevant languages) and development of automated, traceable (version control: Git, SVN) and reproducible (containers: Docker, Singularity) bioinformatics tools.
• C3. Experience in data management and big data technologies. Knowledge of relational databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB), as well as experience with big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, etc.) and cloud platforms.
• C4. Experience in multidisciplinary biomedical research environments and participation in bioinformatics research projects.
• C5. Underrepresentation of gender by category, in accordance with Action S1 of the 2021-2024 Equality Plan, POSITIVE ACTION IN CALLS FOR POSTS
• C6. Interview.

Positive action: a correction index of 1.5 is established for each year of experience in the evaluation of the number of years in those criteria where experience is evaluated, in the event that the disable person greater than 66% and 1.2 in the event that the disable person greater than 33%.

We offer:

• Joining a modern Research Center of international relevance in the scientific field.
• Integration into young teams in an environment of scientific excellence.
• Access to a modern infrastructure with the most advanced technology
• Immediate incorporation
• “Contrato de duración determinada” in accordance with “Disposición Adicional quinta del Real Decreto-ley 32/2021, de 28 de diciembre, de medidas urgentes para la reforma laboral, la garantía de la estabilidad en el empleo y la transformación del mercado de trabajo para la ejecución de programas de carácter temporal cuya financiación provenga de fondos de la Unión Europea”, funded by ref: 101126953. Title: “Joint Action on CARdiovascular diseases and DIabetes” awarded in the call “Joint Action - Call for proposals on NCDs – cardiovascular diseases and diabetes (DP-g-22-06.04) (EU4H-2022-PJ-11)”, as long as the selected candidate complies with the legal requirements for the formalization of the contract in accordance with the Spanish labor law.
• The position may be filled under a temporary replacement contract until the selection process is concluded.

Recruiment Plan:

The RESOLUTION OF THE SECRETARIAT OF STATE FOR PUBLIC FUNCTION APPROVING THE COMMON ACTION CRITERIA FOR THE RECRUITMENT PROCESSES IN THE STATE PUBLIC SECTOR ENTITIES of April 11, 2022, sets forth in point 6.1 that “Unless a specific regulation establishes a merit-bases recruitment system (“concurso”), the competition (“concurso-oposición”) must be the recruitment system”.

In CNIC, the specific regulations approved by the Foundation's board of trustees establish a merit-based recruitment system (“concurso”) including a personal interview.

At least the 3 candidates with the highest score (as long as they reach the minimum of 60 points as a sum of criteria C1‐C5) will be interviewed. The candidate with the highest score will be hired given the total score (C1-C6) is 75 points or higher.

Recruitment Commission:

• Head of the Computational Systems Biomedicine group
• Senior Technician
• Research Office Manager
• Research Office Technician
• HR member

The CNIC guarantees, in its field of action, the principle of equality in access to employment, and cannot establish any discrimination, direct or indirect, based on reasons of origin, including racial or ethnic, sex, age, marital status, religion or convictions, political opinion, sexual orientation and identity, gender expression, sexual characteristics, union affiliation, social condition, language within the State and disability, provided that the workers are in conditions of aptitude to carry out the work or employment for which try they are assigned.

By participating in the selection process, the participant agrees that their data appear in the public resolutions of the selection process. Such resolutions (provisional list of admitted and excluded, definitive list of admitted and excluded and resolution of the process) are published on the CNIC website.

Score criteria:

C1. Experience in administration of GNU/Linux systems and HPC infrastructure. Advanced experience in GNU/Linux system administration, management and use of HPC clusters, queuing systems (SGE, SLURM), management of computational and GPU resources, distributed storage and computing, and infrastructure monitoring (will be valued as a whole on the basis of the time/specialty ratio).  25%

C2. Experience in programming (Python, R, Perl, C++, bash scripting and other relevant languages) and development of automated, traceable (version control: Git, SVN) and reproducible (containers: Docker, Singularity) bioinformatics tools (will be as a whole on the basis of the time/specialty ratio).20%

C3. Experience in data management and big data technologies. Knowledge of relational databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB), as well as experience with big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, etc.) and cloud platforms (will be valued as a whole on the basis of the time/specialty ratio).20%

C4 Experience in multidisciplinary biomedical research environments and participation in bioinformatics research projects. (will be valued as a whole on the basis of the time/specialty ratio). 10%

C5. Underrepresentation of gender by category, in accordance with Action S1 of the 2021-2024 Equality Plan, POSITIVE ACTION IN CALLS FOR POSTS. 5%

C6. Interview. 20%