This Clinical Data Analyst / Informatics Consultant will work in Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) supporting Biomedical Informatics.

Principle Duties
10% Communication: Work with investigators, research personnel and other stakeholders to promote informatics services.
● Promote available CTSI Informatics services to investigators and research staff.
● Coordinate user testing/usability evaluation of offered services and capture needs for potential future enhancements.
● Ensure service delivery progress, delays and/or issues are regularly communicated with team management.

30% Informatics Consultation: Document project requirements, implementation plan, change management, execution and delivery.
● Create consultation reports that capture project requirements, the implementation plan, as well as, the execution and delivery of the project or product.
● Ensure that all informatics activities meet various compliance standards, IRB, data security, and contractual obligations of the University of Minnesota.
● Follow standard operating procedures and adhere to team policies and best practices.
● Strive for a high quality client experience and excellent user satisfaction.
● Discuss and provide feedback related to opportunities for enhancement with team management.
● Follow-up with investigators and staff to ensure delivered services meet users’ expectations.
● Train users on data access procedures, analysis tools, and informatics infrastructure.

60% Technical: Query, extract, integrate, format, deliver and analyze data as per project needs.
● Run feasibility analysis to ensure project requirements can be processed through available informatics services. Assess availability of raw data and provide information about data quality to investigators and research personnel.
● Write code to query raw data and perform data transformation using tools such as SMMS, SQL Developer, SAS and/or R.
● Explore, investigate and propose alternative ways of identifying patient cohorts when data elements are not clear or are unavailable.
● Work closely with other team members to review execution plans and validate results.
● Continually seek to improve knowledge of new clinical data sources.

All required qualifications must be documented on application materials. 

Required Qualifications:
● BA/BS and 6+ years of relevant analytical or quantitative work experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 4 years of experience in areas directly related to the position. Experience must include a minimum of three years of experience querying, extracting, formatting, and analyzing healthcare data such as inpatient/outpatient clinical records, labs, medications, provider data, and/or claims.
● Experience working with messy real-world data.
● Experience working independently in a rapidly changing scientific environment.
● Proficiency with query development and report writing.
● Demonstrated experience with T-SQL, PL/SQL, SAS and/or R programming languages.
● Knowledge of healthcare data management concepts and regulatory/compliance policies (HIPAA, IRB, etc.).
● Superior human relation skills, such as, the ability to use positive language communications to serve and influence our customers and stakeholders
● Ability to participate in occasional domestic travel to attend conferences or training workshops.
● Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize assignments and work under limited supervision.
● Comfortable providing rapid and timely response to urgent requests.
● Comfortable following directions/instructions from supervisors and senior staff.

Preferred Qualifications:
● Knowledge of clinical data and healthcare code sets and ontologies (ICD9/ICD10, CPT, NDC/RXNorm, LOINC, etc.).
● Strong customer-facing experience, preferably with physicians, investigators, faculty/academic and research support staff.
● Experience with data visualization tools (Qlikview, Tableau).
● Research experience is a plus.
● Exposure to statistical modelling and/or advanced analytics using R or Python.