Lead Research Informatics Analyst - Winship Cancer Institute

About the role

The Winship Data and Technology Applications Shared Resource seeks a highly motivated Research Informatics Analyst to support cancer-focused translational, clinical, and population research across the Winship Cancer Institute.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a key component of the shared resource infrastructure, providing centralized informatics and analytic expertise to investigators conducting cancer research across discovery, translational, and clinical domains.
• Delivers high-quality analytic, data integration, and feasibility assessment support across diverse project portfolios.
• Collaborates with investigators to assess project feasibility, interpret research protocols, and translate eligibility criteria into analytic and informatics workflows.
• Responds to ad hoc analytic requests and generates aggregate-level summaries, reports, and visualizations to support research and operational decision-making.
• Supports additional non-genomic informatics and analytic activities as assigned.
• Processes, interprets, and integrates oncology genomic data, including NGS panel results, somatic variant calls, IHC/biomarker outputs, and liquid biopsy data from vendors such as Caris Life Sciences and Guardant, into research and clinical trial workflows.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree and seven years of experience in information technology or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Five years working within a health, research, or academic institution preferred.
• Knowledge of data and information systems standards relevant to the field of biomedical informatics and health systems.

Prior Experience

• Demonstrated experience working with research or clinical datasets in an academic or healthcare setting.
• Experience working with oncology genomics or molecular profiling data, including NGS, IHC, biomarkers, variants, and associated clinical metadata.
• Familiarity with Caris/Guardant, cBioPortal, TCGA/dbGaP workflows.
• Experience supporting project feasibility assessments, responding to ad hoc analytic requests, and generating aggregate-level summary outputs.
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply research protocols and eligibility criteria to analytic and informatics workflows.
• Familiarity with research data governance, regulatory requirements, and best practices for documentation and reproducibility.
• Demonstrated genomics/NGS experience, SQL/Python/R proficiency, SAS, cloud (AWS), project management, deidentification practices.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and seven years of experience in information technology or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Five years working within a health, research, or academic institution preferred.
• Master’s degree in informatics, data science, public health, computer science, biology, biostatistics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Benefits

This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University location as needed and at times, on short notice.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details about schedule are not specified in the job posting.