Sr. Research Data Manager

The Data Management Core of the Success with Therapies Research Consortium in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is seeking a Sr. Research Data Manager. They will be responsible for programming and business intelligence applications to create and maintain systems and processes data workflow across multiple platforms, research sites, and studies. They will identify, research, and resolve technical problems, as well as ensure the use of business intelligence applications enhance clinical and research decision-making capabilities.

The candidate will be responsible for implementing best practices of data management, transformation, cleaning, and analysis with the ability to design algorithms and write, annotate, and debug code to conduct data workflow. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining programming applications and business intelligence applications for data collection, relational databases, data transfer with API, and creating data visualizations and reports. They will contribute to the development and growth of the data management and analysis services by designing and workshopping processes and integrating best practices into the consortium.

This position will routinely interact with a multidisciplinary team from the Data Management Core, the Study Management Core, and the funder of the consortium, study principal investigators, study research coordinators, and vendors. Must have ability to manage multi-project workload, both development and maintenance. Depending on the task and project involved the position may be expected to lead, work as part of a team, or work individually to complete the work as necessary. They will also utilize programming languages, business intelligence, and software to create and maintain systems of data collection, workflow, application programming interfaces (API), analyses, interpretation, and reporting.

This position is an essential position which requires the incumbent to work from home during an event (weather or otherwise) that causes JHU to curtail its operations by closing some or all the university's offices.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Data Management & Workflow

• Responsible for leading the strategic design and maintenance of electronic databases, secure data transfer from third parties such as medication monitoring devices and mobile health applications using programming language, business intelligence applications, and APIs.
• Engage in data exploration and management with a variety of complex business intelligence tools, requiring knowledge of relational database structures.
• Write programs to hard-code data tables and visualizations to provide automated scheduled or real-time accurate reporting of study data. Lead the creation and formatting of reports, diagrams, charts, tables, and graphs for distribution to study Sponsors, study PIs and study sites as well as for internal study management and quality control.
• Write, decipher, and debug efficient code and establish documentation for data workflow. Identify, research, and resolve technical problems.
• Lead the creation/optimization of data workflow processes, including managing the tech stack/data pipeline used by the research team. Utilize various programming languages as needed to perform study tasks and enhance study designs and study conduct, such as integrating third-party electronic data capture using APIs.
• Provide a leadership role through knowledge in the area of specialization.
• Collaborates with other analytic teams and 3rd party developers and engineers as directed.
• Manage data collection and storage on multiple servers and electronic databases, design electronic databases, and utilize APIs to import and export data between programs and third-party portals.
• Develop data collection and analysis methodology, including defining in detail data requirements, data sources, and proper data collection procedures, (e.g., computer programs, appropriate data fields, databases).
• Conduct data merging, cleaning, transformation, and recoding. Write algorithms to calculate new variables and reclassify data types or fields as needed.
• Develop and implement data collection quality assurance procedures to ensure validity and reliability of study results.
• Proactively seek to improve or optimize data workflows between data analysts, biostatisticians, and the rest of the study team. Make recommendations for changes in the current departmental systems and processes and contributes ideas and suggestions for solutions to problems.
• Explore modern business intelligence and data visualization tools to provide real-time, interactive data reporting capabilities to internal and external staff, study sponsors, investigators, and research coordinators
• May serve as resource for research staff and field data coordinators regarding data issues: collection, entry, quality, and transfer.

Data Analysis

• Design and manage statistical programming application templates and packages for data analysis, visualizations, and reporting to be utilized by team members.
• Perform data analysis and interpretation, utilize knowledge of statistics and quantitative analysis to conduct research studies and data analyses.
• Contribute to writing sections of manuscripts /publications and may be responsible for presenting data at meetings.
• All other responsibilities as assigned.

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Exercises managerial or professional judgment and assumes complete responsibility for decisions, consequences, and results. Engages in regular and continuous decision making having an impact on people, costs, and/or quality of service.
• Exchanges routine information in an appropriate manner requiring good oral and written communication skills. Must have excellent problem solving with the ability to use programming for creative solutions to data needs.
• Proficiency with a quantitative data analysis software such as Excel, R, Stata, and SAS. Exposure to other programming languages such as SQL, Ruby, Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript a plus. Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools (Power BI, Tableau). Familiarity with a variety of data formats and conversion between formats (csv, json, xml). Understanding of relational database technology and concepts.

Physical Requirements

• Sitting in a normal seated position for extended periods of time
• Reaching by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction
• Finger dexterity required to manipulate objects with fingers rather than with whole hand(s) or arm(s), for example, using a keyboard
• Communication skills using the spoken word
• Ability to see within normal parameters
• Ability to hear within normal range

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.
• Five years related experience.
  
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula
• Excellent organizational, communication and writing skills required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree preferred.
  

• Intermediate or advanced knowledge of REDCap.
  
• Knowledge of web APIs and the HTTP protocol.
• Knowledge of different data types and conversion between types (string, character, factor, numeric, logical, etc.)
• Experience with data workflow tools (Rmarkdown, GitHub).
• Expertise in R and Rstudio including libraries ggplot2, dplyr, httr.

Classified Title: Sr. Research Data Manager
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD
Starting Salary Range: $54,080 - $74,390 - $94,710 annually (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Varies, 37.5
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Johns Hopkins Bayview (Hybrid)
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM DOM Pulmonary
Personnel area: School of Medicine

Total Rewards
The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate’s conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

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The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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