Data Contracts Analyst

Responsibilities

• Develop, document, and maintain data contracts for clinical trial data and digital content services.
• Create payload definitions, field-level standards, metadata requirements, and transformation rules for system integrations.
• Build and support canonical data models that provide consistent data structures across source and downstream systems.
• Define versioning, compatibility, and lifecycle practices for evolving payloads and interfaces.
• Prepare source-to-target mapping documents that clearly describe transformation logic from source systems to canonical and target formats.
• Partner with architects and engineers to ensure interface specifications are implemented accurately within APIs and event-driven workflows.
• Establish validation rules to help ensure completeness, consistency, accuracy, and integrity of exchanged data.
• Support reconciliation, exception handling, and root cause analysis for integration issues.
• Collaborate with clinical, research, content, architecture, ontology, and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Maintain clear, version-controlled documentation that supports governance, auditability, and reusable integration standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data analysis, systems analysis, data integration, or interface specification development.
• Hands-on experience defining and documenting data contracts or complex interface specifications.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling concepts, including canonical data models.
• Experience working with structured formats such as JSON and XML.
• Experience with REST APIs and API-driven or event-driven integration environments.
• Ability to create source-to-target mapping and transformation documentation.
• Experience developing validation rules and supporting data quality practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Informatics, Data Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Skills

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or clinical research environments.
• Familiarity with clinical trial data models and healthcare interoperability standards.
• Experience working with ontology or semantic modeling teams.
• Knowledge of messaging platforms and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Exposure to OpenAPI or AsyncAPI specifications.
• Experience with data governance and metadata management practices.
• Understanding of enterprise content management or digital publishing platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud-native integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Git.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or clinical research environments.
• Familiarity with clinical trial data models and healthcare interoperability standards.
• Experience working with ontology or semantic modeling teams.
• Knowledge of messaging platforms and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Exposure to OpenAPI or AsyncAPI specifications.
• Experience with data governance and metadata management practices.
• Understanding of enterprise content management or digital publishing platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud-native integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Git.