Research Data Engineer

Position Summary
Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and systems that enable effective data collection, storage, processing, and distribution of research data. This is a critical role that enables effective and efficient data-driven research by providing the necessary infrastructure and support to accommodate complex data requirements and ensure data integrity, security, and accessibility.

Essential Duties

Create and maintain relational and non-relational databases, ensuring they are optimized for performance and scalability.

Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines to automate the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from various sources into research databases.

Implement, manage, monitor, and optimize data infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability.

Develop and implement processes to clean, validate, and standardize data to ensure its accuracy and reliability.

Ensure that data storage and processing comply with security standards and regulations.

Work closely with data scientists, researchers, and analysts to understand their data needs and provide the necessary infrastructure and tools to support their work.

Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance for data-related issues encountered by researchers and other stakeholders.

Develop and maintain custom tools and scripts to facilitate data collection, processing, and analysis.

Create documentation for all data pipelines, infrastructure and procedures.

Works with researchers, statisticians and faculty to develop data analysis, quality control, and reporting plans for research projects.

Prepares datasets and databases for analysis.

Assists investigators in running analysis and presentation programs and prepares output of presentation quality.

Provides training to other staff members, biostatisticians, and researchers as necessary.

Periodic off-hours support for system maintenance activities.

Competencies

Building Trust: Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one's intentions and those of the organization.

Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.

Building Strategic Relationships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.

Collaboration/Teamwork: Ability to work effectively as part of a project team and foster team growth and cooperation.

Managing Conflict: Dealing effectively with others in an antagonistic situation; using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people. Addresses conflicts by focusing on the issues at hand to develop effective solutions when disputes or disagreements occur; helps others resolve conflicts by providing impartial mediation when needed.

Customer Focus: Strong interpersonal communication and exceptional customer service skills working with non-technical users and stakeholders.

Managing Work and Time/Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously to ensure that work is completed efficiently; provides regular communications to keep management, leadership and users informed on status of project tasks and assignments.

Continuous Learning and Development: Strong desire to always be learning and growing to enhance ones contribution to the organization.

Valuing and Leveraging Diversity: Fosters an inclusive workspace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve success.

Creativity and Innovation: Applies creative problem-solving skills to develop solutions to problems.

Initiative: Ability to work with a high degree of independence and latitude to accomplish objectives in a timely manner; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
None

Travel
None

Core Values

Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.

Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.

Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.

Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies and the Employee Handbook.

Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures.

Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.

Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a closely related field.

Work Experience: A minimum of 3 years experience in a data engineering, software development, database management, and/or clinical research role. Experience in research data management preferred.

Special Training, Certification or Licensure: None

Salary Range: $89,208.44 - $117,978.17

Benefits
At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset. With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Multiple Cigna health plans for Colorado, regional office and remote employees. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available to pair with some plans.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO accruals to use for vacation and sick days, and six paid holidays, all compliant with Colorado state sick leave regulations.
• Dental & Vision Plans: Coverage effective the first of the month after hire.
• Retirement Savings: 403(b) plan with employer contributions after two years.
• Wellness Incentives: Earn up to $200 annually for preventive health activities.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,250 annually for full-time and part-time employees.
• Child Care Assistance: Childcare Flex Spending Account (FSA) with annual employer contribution.
• Loan Forgiveness: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Employer-paid plans and optional buy-up choices.
• Voluntary Benefits: Full suite of coverage options such as Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Plan
• Exclusive Discounts: Savings on local services, insurance, and RTD bus passes.

Application Deadline: This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.