Research Informatics Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

Performs a critical role in supporting clinical and translational research by leading customer engagement, translating research needs into technical solutions, and delivering high-quality data resources. This position works closely with faculty, study teams, and technical staff to ensure timely, accurate, and mission-aligned data delivery. As a core member of a high-performance team, they will ensure data pipelines are consistently and reliably maintained and analytics capabilities are delivered at an optimum level, helping the organization identify research insights from a large number of diverse datasets.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job responsibilities performed.

• Customer Engagement & Requirements Gathering

Lead scoping and documentation of clinical research data requests, ensuring clarity and alignment with organizational objectives.

Translate clinical and research requirements into actionable technical specifications, including SQL queries and data model designs.

Design, build, and maintain data resources such as relational databases, data marts, data lakes, and flat files (.csv) for research use.

Write, test, and optimize SQL queries to extract and transform data, contributing to code reviews and ensuring data quality.

Execute data requests within defined scope and timelines, maintaining responsiveness to a one-business-day service level agreement (SLA).

Identify and resolve data anomalies, validate new data sources, and troubleshoot data quality issues to ensure reliability.

Provide flexible, on-demand data analysis to support business decisions and research inquiries.

Contribute to the standardization of documentation and adoption of best practices, including writing specifications and job aids.

Investigate new tools, technologies, and data sources to improve research capabilities and inform future development.

Education and Experience

Skills

Additional Information

Pay Range - $49.35 - $58.46 - $74.05

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