Research Informatics Developer

Job Requirements

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.

Customer Engagement & Requirements Gathering

• Lead scoping and documentation of clinical research data requests, ensuring clarity and alignment with organizational objectives.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.

Education & Experience

• Required: Bachelor’s 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 EHR data warehouses (e.g. Epic Clarity or Cerner Millennium etc. )
• 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
• PREFERRED: Master’s degree in a 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
• Five or more years of experience writing reports using healthcare data against Epic data warehouses (Clarity or Caboodle).
• Five or more years of experience using standardized clinical code systems (e.g. ICD10, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, UMLS) and common data models (OMOP)
• Five or more 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
• Five or more years of SQL programming expertise
• Epic Certified in Caboodle Data Model, Clarity Data Model, and/or Clinical Data Model
• Advanced BI Developer skills
• Experience managing terminology mapping documentation, data profiling and data mapping documentation
• Experience with data manipulation languages (e.g. SAS, R, Python)
• Experience with graph database(s) especially Neo4j and Cypher
• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Experience working within HIPAA-compliant or other highly confidential data environments, 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

Pay Range

Pay Range: $49.35 - $74.05

Other Compensation

Other Compensation (if Applicable): Review the 2024-2025 UMMS Benefits Guide