Responsibilities

• Curate and validate omics metadata using structured workbooks and controlled vocabularies
• Run CLI-based workflows to upload metadata and processed data into databases
• Write SQL, shell, and Python scripts to validate, troubleshoot, and automate metadata tasks
• Acquire and map external datasets to internal metadata standards
• Coordinate with scientists, bioinformaticians, and data engineers to ensure metadata quality and usability

Mandatory Skills

• SQL (writing and debugging queries, joins, aggregations, data validation)
• Shell scripting (Bash, awk, sed, grep, automation)
• Python (scripting-level proficiency for data manipulation and file parsing)
• Experience with metadata, ontologies, or controlled vocabularies
• Life sciences background (genomics, transcriptomics, omics data)
• Experience with public omics repositories (NCBI GEO/SRA)