IT Analyst/Programmer - 3 (Haendel)

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research. Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond. Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce. Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary:

The Department of Genetics is looking for a Research Informatics Specialist that will work both independently and in collaboration with other team members and other investigators on campus with responsibilities related to data management and processing, extract, transform, and load (ETL), data quality improvements, and reporting. This position is also tasked with developing and testing new data management solutions or consulting with investigative teams to solve problems for specific projects.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Masters’ and 2-4 years’ experience; or Bachelors and 3-5 years’ experience; or will accept a combination of related education and experience in substitution.

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

Three years of relevant work experience Knowledge of relational database systems such as Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, etc Programming skills in R and/or Python Experience with electronic health record data ( Demonstrable past experience in scoping technical projects in terms of length of time, competencies and cost.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

Experience with cloud computing Strong computational skills as evidenced by completed projects and developed software, tools, and systems Experience with ETL and data transformation Experience with common data models (such as OMOP, PCORNet, TriNetx, ACT), terminologies, and standards for electronic health record data Experience performing research data management and familiar with and HIPAA compliance Past experience working with faculty in an academic research environment.