Research Informatics Developer

Performs a critical role in supporting clinical and translational research by leading customer engagement translating research needs into technical solutions and delivering high-quality data resources. This position works closely with faculty study teams and technical staff to ensure timely accurate and mission-aligned data delivery. As a core member of a high-performance team they will ensure data pipelines are consistently and reliably maintained and analytics capabilities are delivered at an optimum level helping the organization identify research insights from a large number of diverse datasets.

Qualifications :

Responsibilities 

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• Customer Engagement & Requirements Gathering
  Lead scoping and documentation of clinical research data requests ensuring clarity and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Technical Translation of Research Needs
  Translate clinical and research requirements into actionable technical specifications including SQL queries and data model designs.
• Data Solution Development
  Design build and maintain data resources such as relational databases data marts data lakes and flat files (.csv) for research use.
• SQL Query Development & Validation
  Write test and optimize SQL queries to extract and transform data contributing to code reviews and ensuring data quality.
• Project Coordination & Timely Delivery
  Execute data requests within defined scope and timelines maintaining responsiveness to a one-business-day service level agreement (SLA).
• Data Quality Assurance
  Identify and resolve data anomalies validate new data sources and troubleshoot data quality issues to ensure reliability.
• Ad Hoc Data Analysis
  Provide flexible on-demand data analysis to support business decisions and research inquiries.
• Documentation & Standards Development
  Contribute to the standardization of documentation and adoption of best practices including writing specifications and job aids.
• Technology & Product Research
  Investigate new tools technologies and data sources to improve research capabilities and inform future development.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in health science related field (e.g. biostatistics epidemiology etc.) or technology (e.g. computer science engineering etc.) or a related field from an accredited institution
• At least two (2) years of experience writing reports using healthcare data against Epic data warehouses (Clarity or Caboodle).
• At least two (2) years of experience using standardized clinical code systems (e.g. ICD10 SNOMED CT LOINC RxNorm UMLS) and common data models (OMOP)
• At least two (2) years of experience in a healthcare reporting or biomedical research environment working with enterprise data warehouses including data profiling data quality assessments data analysis/reporting data set curation
• At least two (2) years of SQL programming expertise

Skills

• Experience working within HIPAA-compliant or other highly confidential data environments
• Experience working in an academic core service or research support service
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• BI developer skills (e.g. Tableau reports Power BI)
• Strong analytical skills critical thinking attention to detail and accuracy and strong inter-personal skills
• Ability to communicate with cross functional teams ability to support development of BI dashboards and reports and data analytic initiatives
• Advanced communication skills and proficiency with MS Office

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time