Data Informatics Curator-Biological

Job Summary:
This position supports DIA’s S&T Directorate, providing technical support for data Informatics, management and curation of data sets containing a variety of reports and scientific information. The Data Informatics curator will work closely with the client and data curation team on-site managing and curating staged internal and external biological oriented repository data sets for review and upload into a web-based application that is accessible by the IC for data discovery and supporting RFI’s. Candidates must be mission oriented and have keen organizational skills and attention to detail. Strong customer focus, communication and team player attitude are also a must.
Responsibilities:

• Team player with excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to details.
• Experience working with folder structures where the data sets are organized and stored.
• Experience compiling metadata about various data sets and reviewing all acquired materials to identify relevant metadata for each data set.
• Working experience with Jira and Confluence, tools used to track tasking via Jira tickets, update curation status, communicate with the entire team (curators, client, software developers), and manage/update SOPs, weekly updates, and workflows via Confluence pages.

Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen.
• Must have an active TS/SCI with ability to acquire CI poly.
• Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) and two (2) or more years of experience.
• In lieu of degree, four (4) or more years of relevant experience.
• Team player with excellent organizational and communication skills
• Meticulous attention to details.
• Experience working with folder structures where the data sets are organized and stored.
• Experience compiling metadata about various data sets and reviewing all acquired materials to identify relevant metadata for each data set.
• Working experience with Jira and Confluence, tools used to track tasking via Jira tickets, update curation status, communicate with the entire team (curators, client, software developers), and manage/update SOPs, weekly updates, and workflows via Confluence pages.
• Successful background and drug screening check.

Preferred Requirements:

• Knowledge of biological sciences.
• DOD contracting experience.
• Five (5) or more years of experience working on data management/curation projects.
• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in life sciences or any data management related field.

Physical Demands or Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The majority of the time is spent in an office setting.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance, vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.

About ZelTech

ZelTech is a minority owned small business (NAICS 541715) specializing in customer threat reduction. We provide a full spectrum of threat reduction services from planning, training, operations, R&D, advising, and solution prototyping across our services and solutions business groups. We combine best of breed engineering practices, subject matter expertise, design services, computer science, and data analytics with innovative approaches in artificial intelligence and machine learning, AR/VR, R&D, and physics-based modeling and simulation providing tailored solutions addressing our customer’s unique threat requirements.

Our Mission

We provide customers with the knowledge, tools, and solutions needed for correct and timely decisions and effective actions to help ensure U.S. national security.

Diversity Workforce

ZelTech team members represent a wide range of backgrounds, skills, experience, and personalities bound together by common objectives and mutual respect. You will join a caring community of professional, including many military veterans who challenge and support each other in seeking the right solutions to important matters.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k immediate vesting with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bonuses for performance
• Voluntary life/accidental death & dismemberment
• Educational assistance and special training programs
• Voluntary benefits (accidental, critical illness, whole life)
• Group life insurance (Company paid)
• Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance (Company paid)
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Holiday Leave, Jury Duty, and Military Leave
• Health and fitness reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Employee discounts on various services and products

Equal Opportunities

Zel Tech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, military status, genetic predisposition, or any other basis protected by law.