IT Analyst/Programmer - 2 (Haendel)

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $75K - $105K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ May 13th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring an IT Analyst/Programmer - 2 (Haendel) for the Department of Genetics. The role involves developing and maintaining semantic pipelines, data models, ontologies, and semantic data harmonization strategies to support translational research, contributing to research publications, grants, and community-wide open science efforts.

Highlights

Lead development of semantic pipelines, algorithms, data models, and ontologies for translational research data types such as clinical variables, imaging, genotype-phenotype, and omics data.
Provide software engineering support and contribute technically to research publications and grant applications.
Promote open, integrated, and rigorous practices in research data engineering and scholarly communication.
Work with automated/manual bio data curation, knowledge representation, semantic engineering, and AI-supporting software systems.
Required experience in semantic data engineering and a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree with relevant experience.
Preferred skills include programming in Python, Jupyter notebooks, Git/GitHub, software/project management tools (Jira, Confluence), and experience with graph databases, triplestores, ontologies, semantic models, and related query languages (SPARQL, Cypher).
Experience handling data in formats like OWL, RDF, JSON-LD, JSON, relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle), and semantic technologies.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment with faculty, scientists, postdocs, and students.
Full-time permanent position with a hiring range of $75,000 to $105,000 annually.
Position is virtual as part of the School of Medicine's flexible work arrangements initiative.