Sr. Research Business Intelligence Data Analyst

All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU’s robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, generous tuition benefit, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more. Learn more about VCU’s benefits here.

VCU Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research

At VCU, we are UNCOMMON and UNLIKE any other university. A premier, urban, public research university nationally recognized as one of the best employers for diversity, VCU is a great place to work. It’s a place of opportunity where your success is supported and your career can thrive. VCU offers employees a generous leave package, career paths for advancement, competitive pay, and an opportunity to do mission-driven work.

VCU's Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) invites all interested candidates to apply for our exciting Sr. Research Analyst position. CCTR accelerates the science that promotes healthy communities. It provides the commonwealth with infrastructure and resources that promote interdisciplinary human health research. As the first federally funded clinical and translational research center in Virginia, the Wright Center fosters research collaborations across the state and accelerates the translation of scientific discoveries to patient care.

All full-time staff are eligible for our generous benefits package that includes choices for health, vision, and dental coverage, life-insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, retirement planning, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, flexible spending accounts, tuition benefits, significant paid-time off,12 paid holidays, and more.  Explore our benefits further here: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/benefits/

Position Primary Purpose and General Responsibilities

The Biomedical Informatics Research Analyst will work with study teams and stakeholders across the VCU research enterprise to provide informatics support for biomedical research. Primary responsibilities include querying relational databases (i.e. Electronic Health Records (EHR), insurance claims) to create datasets for research and communicating with study teams to collect requirements and validate results. Other responsibilities include peer reviewing other analysts’ work, ensuring HIPAA/regulatory compliance, developing technical infrastructure to support research informatics, and consulting with study teams about research pathways. Ideal candidates will be intrinsically motivated self-starters, eager to learn, do hard things, and accept critical feedback to improve performance. 

Minimum Qualifications

• VCU supports a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment. The candidate will demonstrate experience that shows their commitment to fostering such an environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to healthcare or information technology or equivalent work experience
• At least two years professional experience querying, analyzing, and wrangling biomedical data using SQL
• Able to quickly manipulate (i.e. join, filter, pivot, etc) tables to curate datasets without referencing technical documentation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to clearly and concisely translate requirements and limitations between technical and non-technical personnel
• Demonstrated competence organizing complex information in a clear and concise manner
• Able to independently lead all aspects of a complex data request from collecting requirements, verifying HIPAA/regulatory compliance, and curating the dataset via SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• Epic certifications relevant to clinical reporting (Cogito, Clarity, Caboodle, Cosmos)
• Professional experience using non-SQL programming languages to manipulate data (i.e. Python, R)
• Experience with big healthcare data (i.e. EHR, insurance claims)
• Experience supporting clinical research teams
• Experience employing project management strategies to manage workload Basic understanding of statistical analysis in clinical research

Job Family: Research & Innovation, University Title: Sr. Research Analyst, Job Code: 33234

Brandon Seigel
seigelb@vcu.edu