Data Integration Specialist

Caris Life Sciences • Irving, TX

21h

About The Position

The Data Integration Specialist applies IT best practices and project methodology to technical implementation of Caris data exchange initiatives, including real-world evidence data deployments. The role bridges business and technology by gathering technical requirements, translating business needs for technical process owners, and explaining technical processes to non-technical leaders. It gathers and organizes data for ingestion into client systems, contributes to data exchange infrastructure design and development, and plans technology approaches to meet business requirements. The Specialist analyzes requirements and installs, configures, tests, and puts client integrations into production while documenting the work and adhering to departmental and corporate standards. The position may also involve other related duties and special projects as assigned. The role requires periodic travel, may include evening, weekend, or holiday work and after-hours emergency response, and may involve scheduled on-call coverage. The employee must complete the applicable pre-employment process, which may include background, drug, credit, and reference checks.

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 in healthcare integrations, particularly 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 tokenization of data for external partner collaboration.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and Outlook, and general working knowledge of the internet for business use.
• Ability to travel periodically and work some evenings, weekends, and/or holidays; after-hours emergency response may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Strong background, advanced knowledge, and working experience in IT technologies, security architecture, and system life-cycle phases are recommended.
• 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 for multiple types of data sources, particularly different electronic medical record systems.
• Ability to assemble and query complex database data, conduct in-depth analysis, and interpret computational data.
• Strong leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
• Personal qualities including honesty and integrity, ability to inspire others, commitment and passion, sound decision-making, accountability, delegation and empowerment, creativity, and innovation.
• Drive for results, service, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Proficient verbal and written communication, and willingness to share and receive information and ideas across the organization.
• Commitment to team and organizational goals and willingness to help other team members.
• Focus on listening to and understanding client/customer needs and exceeding service and quality expectations.
• Programming or scripting skills in JavaScript, Java, and/or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical requirements gathering and establish approaches for individual data exchange projects.
• Translate between business requirements and technical processes, and explain technical processes to non-technical business leaders.
• Gather and organize data so it can be ingested into client systems.
• Contribute to the design and development of data exchange infrastructure.
• Plan technology solutions to satisfy business requirements.
• Analyze requirements; install, configure, test, and deploy client integrations to production, documenting each step.
• Adhere to documented departmental and corporate standards.
• Perform other related duties and special projects as needed or assigned.
• Respond to technical emergencies after hours as required and participate in periodic on-call coverage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level