Data Integration Specialist

Caris Life Sciences • Irving, TX

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About The Position

The Data Integration Specialist applies IT best practices and project methodologies to the technical implementation of Caris’s comprehensive data exchange initiatives, with a focus on real-world evidence data deployments. The role bridges business and technology by gathering technical requirements, translating business needs for technical teams, and explaining technical processes to non-technical business leaders. It also contributes to the design and development of data exchange infrastructure and plans technology solutions that meet business requirements.

The specialist gathers and organizes large amounts of data for ingestion into client systems; analyzes requirements; and installs, configures, tests, and places integrations into production with clients while documenting each step. The role follows departmental and corporate standards and may assist with related duties and special projects as needed. Periodic travel, after-hours emergency response, and scheduled on-call duties may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in extract, transform, and load (ETL) programming.
• At least 2 years of experience working with relational databases.
• Working experience with relational databases, including Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL.
• Working experience with healthcare integrations, especially HL7, XML, and JSON feeds using Mirth or another integration application.
• Working experience with interface connectivity protocols such as VPNs, sFTP, APIs, and HTTPS.
• Working experience using AWS S3 to deploy data to external partners.
• Experience with data tokenization for external partner collaboration.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and Outlook, and general working knowledge of the Internet for business use.
• Ability to sit and/or stand for long periods and perform repetitive motion.
• Ability to travel periodically and work some evenings, weekends, and/or holidays; after-hours emergency response and periodic on-call duties may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Strong background, advanced knowledge, and working experience in IT technologies, security architecture, and system life-cycle phases.
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and architectures.
• Familiarity with transport protocols and applications.
• Ability to work independently to solve application software problems.
• Experience establishing external access and ETL strategies with multiple types of data sources, particularly different electronic medical record systems.
• Ability to assemble and query complex database data, perform in-depth analysis, and interpret computational data.
• Strong leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills, including honesty, integrity, accountability, decision-making, delegation, empowerment, creativity, and innovation.
• Commitment to results, service, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills and willingness to share and receive information across organizational levels.
• Commitment to team and organizational goals and willingness to assist other team members.
• Focus on understanding client and customer needs and exceeding service and quality expectations.
• Programming and scripting skills in JavaScript, Java, and/or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical requirements gathering and establish approaches for individual data integration projects.
• Communicate technical processes to non-technical business leaders and translate business requirements for technical process owners.
• Gather and organize data for ingestion into client systems.
• Contribute to the design and development of data exchange infrastructure.
• Analyze business requirements and develop technology plans to meet them.
• Install, configure, test, and deploy integrations with clients, documenting all steps.
• Adhere to documented departmental and corporate standards.
• Assist with related duties and special projects as required, and accept other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time