Biomedical Data Programmer for Research Tools

Axle Energy; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for

Paid Time Off & Holidays

401K match up to 5%

Educational Benefits

Employee Referral Bonus

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Job summary

Axle is a bioscience and IT company supporting NIH/NCI, seeking a Computer Programmer to maintain and modernize the NIH NCI systems in Bethesda, MD. The role requires on-site work at NCI Shady Grove in Rockville, MD, about 1–2 days per week, with after-hours support during deployments.

You will troubleshoot issues, develop fixes, and ensure data integration across NIH/NCI platforms while aligning with federal security standards and reporting needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive experience developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining complex software applications using multiple programming languages.
• Advanced experience with data management, database analysis, system integration, and data validation.
• Experience supporting production applications in a multi-user environment.
• Functional knowledge of NIH grants management and budget-reporting processes.
• Knowledge of NIH IMPAC II and NCI I2E DM database structures, including extramural grant and funding data.
• Experience configuring and maintaining IRDB and NCI I2E scripts used for Institute- or Center-specific grant-data downloads.
• Experience with application upgrades, configuration management, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Knowledge of federal information-security requirements, FIPS standards, secure software-development practices, and vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to work onsite at NCI Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland, approximately one to two days per week.
• Availability for occasional after-hours support during deployments and year-end reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, secure, and modernize NCI’s Scientific Coding System (SCS), SMART, and NCI Funded Research Portfolio (NFRP).
• Troubleshoot production issues, application errors, performance problems, and system outages.
• Develop, test, debug, and deploy software fixes, upgrades, and system enhancements.
• Support web applications, databases, servers, interfaces, backup environments, and third-party components.
• Integrate, validate, import, export, and migrate data across NIH and NCI systems.
• Customize data downloads and reporting processes supporting scientific portfolio analysis, grant reporting, and year-end activities.
• Maintain and modify IRDB and NCI I2E process scripts in response to changes within eRA, IMPAC II, and related data structures.
• Monitor application logs, alerts, and performance metrics and recommend improvements.
• Support configuration, change, release, backup, recovery, and continuity-of-operations processes.
• Remediate vulnerabilities identified through HHS and NCI security scans and ensure changes comply with federal security requirements and FIPS standards.
• Develop scripts and automation to improve system reliability, data processing, and administrative workflows.
• Provide elevated support during production deployments, year-end reporting, and other critical operational periods.

Skills

Software development

Data management

System integration

Security/compliance

NIH/NCI knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

IRDB

NCI I2E

eRA IMPAC II

SCS/SMART

Job description

Axle is a bioscience and IT company supporting NIH/NCI, seeking a Computer Programmer to maintain and modernize the NIH NCI systems in Bethesda, MD. The role requires on-site work at NCI Shady Grove in Rockville, MD, about 1–2 days per week, with after-hours support during deployments.

You will troubleshoot issues, develop fixes, and ensure data integration across NIH/NCI platforms while aligning with federal security standards and reporting needs.