Data Analyst

Data Analyst

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Data Management Specialist

The Position

The candidate will perform data management and curation tasks to support biomarker discovery and companion diagnostic development efforts in the Development Sciences department. In the process of performing this work, the candidate will communicate extensively with scientists, research associates, operations managers, clinical data managers, analysts and vendor representatives.

Duties include:

• Working with biomarker operations managers and biometrics colleagues to draft data transfer specifications and statements of work.
• Acquiring and QC'ing digital pathology image data and associated metadata files from internal groups and external vendors. Capturing data in internal file systems and databases.
• Monitoring data processing requests and submitting data files to analysis pipelines
• Merging different data types with clinical data to generate analysis-ready data sets
• Curating and cataloguing data sets, maintaining listings of available data, and distributing to collaborators
• Maintaining and curating content of internal knowledge sharing repositories
• Maintaining and developing data conformance checking scripts and requirements

Required Skills:

• Familiarity working in a Linux computing environment
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as R or Python; Database skills
• Familiarity with modern informatics systems, relational and non-relational databases, scripting languages, and data visualization tools.
• Demonstrated experience with informatics best practices and developing well-documented, production code in non-academic environments.
• Working knowledge of scientific research application development cycles and data management principles.
• Working knowledge of anatomical pathology workflow and digital pathology data lifecycles
• Experience managing and curating biological or clinical data
• Careful, detail-oriented working style
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and problem solving skills
• Able to work independently and in a team setting.

Experience with the following is desired:

• Relational databases and SQL
• Statistical software packages such as R or SAS
• Clinical trial data management
• Working with medical images data
• Setting up and maintaining online content management systems or wikis

Education

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Life Science, Computer Sciences or Biomedical Engineering with at least >3 years work related experience.

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