Software Engineer

Description:

The University of Melbourne would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Peoples, the Yorta Yorta Nation, the Dja Dja Wurrung People. We acknowledge that the land on which we meet and learn was the place of age-old ceremonies, of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the local Aboriginal Peoples have had and continue to have a unique role in the life of these lands.

About the Role
AusTrakka is the Australian platform for secure data exchange among public health laboratories (PHLs) in Australia. We work towards ensuring genomic and epidemiological data is shared in close to real-time across the country to enable rapid public health responses. AusTrakka is the only platform for sharing SARS-CoV-2 data across jurisdictions.

The selected candidate will report to the AusTrakka Lead Developer in the AusTrakka Development and Operations Team. The selected candidate will work closely with other members of the team including the Lead Bioinformatician, the MDU PHL Bioinformatics Section and the Epidemiology Section to design, develop, test, and maintain solutions for supporting genomic analyses, visualisation and reporting through the AusTrakka platform. The selected candidate may also be required to perform similar duties for other programs coordinated by the Bioinformatics Section.

Responsibilities include:

• Assisting the Lead Epidemiologist International Programs to plan, develop and implement training programs in the areas of public health genomic epidemiology and AMR Engage and consulting with users including bioinformaticians, genomics epidemiologists and government across jurisdictions to improve the experience of the AusTrakka platform.
• Jointly with the AusTrakka dev team, designing, developing, maintaining and testing the AusTrakka platform and associated bioinformatics tools and pipelines.
• Developing and maintaining genomics visualisation solutions on the AusTrakka platform.
• Contributing to user documentation for AusTrakka.