Clinical Research Data Specialist

University of Wisconsin Madison•Madison, WI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation is seeking a Clinical Research Data Specialist to assist in database development and management of multiple clinical and research databases. This position will primarily support clinical departmental databases and help manage centralizing data in an efficient and accurate manner, as well as assist with preparing datasets for analysis. This will include development of standard operating procedures for all aspects of data entry, quality assessments, and exporting for analysis. Additionally, the position will support creating, maintaining, and analyzing research databases for prospective research studies. This position will work closely with the Badger Athletic Performance program, patient reported outcome data, and data extracted from the electronic medical record. A successful candidate will have experience working with large clinical datasets in a research setting. Demonstrated experience with data management via software including REDCap and Excel are strongly preferred. Familiarity with the research process including data collection and preparing data for analysis is preferred. Familiarity with coding languages such as R, Python, Matlab, or others is helpful but not required. This position requires work to be completed onsite, at a designated campus work location.

Requirements

Experience working with large clinical datasets in a research setting
Demonstrated experience with data management via software including REDCap and Excel are strongly preferred
Familiarity with the research process including data collection and preparing data for analysis is preferred
Familiarity with coding languages such as R, Python, Matlab, or others is helpful but not required
Bachelor's degree preferred minimum
Applicants with Master’s Degree are highly preferred and given first consideration; focus in Bioinformatics, Clinical Informatics, Data Science, Data Engineering, or related field preferred
Cover letter required
Resume required

Nice To Haves

Experience building REDCap databases
Experience working with data obtained from clinical settings

Responsibilities

Develops, constructs, tests, and maintains architectures for large-scale data management and analysis
Serves as an institutional subject matter expert and liaison to key internal and external stakeholders regarding automated data management and analysis at scale for research and represents the interests of large-scale data management and analysis for research
Selects appropriate technologies and optimizes pipelines for performance
Organizes both data preparation and analysis steps into reproducible pipelines that can process similar data sets automatically
Implements data analysis steps in collaboration with data scientists, statisticians, and/or other researchers and may use technologies that support data at scale
Prepares data sets for current and future analysis including cleaning/quality assurance, transformations, restructuring, and integration of multiple data sources and may use technologies that support data at scale
May supervise the data-to-day activities of staff and resolves routine personnel issues