Title : Data Management Specialist Location : South San Francisco CA Duration : 12+ Months (contract with possible extension)
Job Description:
The Position 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.
