Data Software Engineer III - Quality and Patient Safety initiative (QPSi)

Research Software Engineer III

A Bachelors Degree in computer or physical science statistics bioinformatics analytics or similar field and five years of experience; Masters Degree in computer or physical science statistics bioinformatics analytics or similar field and three years of experience; Doctoral Degree in computer or physical science statistics bioinformatics analytics or similar field and one year of experience.

This Data Software Engineer will be a crucial member of the Quality and Patient Safety initiative (QPSi) at the UF College of Medicine tasked with developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines engineering novel features to enhance AI models and extend the scope of the clinical data warehouse and contributing to the integration of machine learning models to enhance healthcare quality. The role involves collaborating with healthcare professionals faculty and data science teams to manage healthcare-related data ensuring secure efficient and scalable data solutions.

The Data Software Engineer will be responsible for designing data architectures automating workflows and optimizing databases while ensuring compliance with healthcare data regulations. This position requires a high level of technical proficiency in Python (especially with the Pandas python library) experience with system deployment and administration (e.g. Docker Ansible) database management (SQL/NoSQL) and an understanding of machine learning operations (MLOps).

About This Role:

Feature Engineering and Data Pipeline Development

• Design develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to support efficient extraction transformation and loading (ETL) processes for large healthcare datasets.
• Design software for parallel processing of high-performance computing (HiPerGator) and high-performance data analytics workflows together with data scientists.
• Deploy data infrastructure and systems on standard Linux servers and the HiPerGator supercomputer.
• Collaborate with data science teams and clinical domain experts to engineer new features from raw data optimizing for predictive model performance in machine learning applications.
• Create and refine data structures that facilitate effective feature extraction ensuring the availability of high-quality datasets for AI and analytics workflows.
• Automate repetitive data processing tasks using Python and other scripting tools to ensure consistency reliability and scalability of feature engineering efforts.
• Integrate data from multiple sources ensuring data accuracy and consistency through robust validation and transformation processes.

Data Quality and Management

• Create and execute the organizations strategy for improving and maintaining research data quality.
• With the Integrated Data Repository (IDR) team defines and establishes data quality definitions and rules consistent with unit and organizational priorities.
• Support a consistent ontology.
• Define data quality metrics and establish processes to measure and monitor them continuously.
• Manage communications related to data quality including evaluation and improvement as needed.
• Work with IDR team and IT partners to prevent and remediate identified quality issues using both manual and automated solutions.
• In accordance with the data governance plan set priorities and strategies for incorporating new sources of data into the IDR based on demand.

MLOps and Infrastructure Administration

• Implement and manage Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) frameworks to facilitate the continuous integration deployment and monitoring of AI models in production environments.
• Use Ansible for infrastructure automation managing Linux-based systems and ensuring that deployments are reproducible and environments are consistently configured.
• Collaborate with data scientists and UF Health IT to streamline the deployment of machine learning models creating CI/CD pipelines for model versioning testing and deployment.
• Set up monitoring and logging systems to track model performance in production and identifying and troubleshooting any issues that arise post-deployment.
• With UF Health IT develop solutions to ensure high availability and scalability of AI models through proactive system administration and infrastructure monitoring preventing downtime or performance bottlenecks.

Communicating Knowledge and Results

• Using software tools for business intelligence and analytics (e.g. SAP product stack) word processing spreadsheet presentation and organizational analyses (e.g. Microsoft Office products) provides reports of analyses to decision makers. Will also be responsible for developing reporting mechanisms via dashboards.
• Lead and contribute to developing manuscripts abstracts and presentations for dissemination through journals trade publications and at regional and national venues.
• Contribute to the QPSis education mission and its efforts to develop educational resources on AI and data science in the realm of health care that will be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders.

About COMs Quality and Patient Safety Initiative (QPSi):

The UF College of Medicines Quality and Patient Safety Initiative (QPSi) is dedicated to enhancing patient care quality and safety through innovative research education and collaboration. This initiative focuses on implementing evidence-based practices advancing patient safety initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the College of Medicine.

QPSis mission is to drive excellence in healthcare delivery by integrating clinical expertise data-driven insights and cutting-edge technology. The initiative engages healthcare professionals students and stakeholders in efforts to elevate patient care standards and outcomes.

For more information about the Quality and Patient Safety Initiative visit UF College of Medicines QPSi.

We Offer Exceptional Benefits:

• Low-cost State Health Plans: Medical Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Generous Retirement Options to secure your future
• Comprehensive Paid Time Off Packages:(includes over 10 paid holidays as well as paid family sick and vacation leave)
• Exceptional Personal and Professional Development Opportunities: Access to UF Training & Organizational Development programs leadership development LinkedIn Learning and more
• Tuition Assistancethrough theUF Employee Education Program
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Eligible Employer

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