at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job ID49323
LocationChicago, Illinois
Department: MED-Central IT
Salary/Grade: ITS/83
Job Summary:
The Team Leader/Research Analytics is a Data Engineer/Data Scientist who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the research efforts of the Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse Research Analytics team. The NMEDW is a highly integrated, massively-scaled, highly secure centralized database repository containing clinical, financial, operational and regulatory data on over 10 million patients who receive their care from the Northwestern Medicine family of healthcare providers. The person in this role should have a thorough understanding of research processes, hospital data systems, reporting, and infrastructure. The position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field and five to seven years of experience, with at least 5 years of experience in data warehousing and healthcare delivery, research and advanced analytics.
This position will be responsible for the research arm of the NMEDW team and will supervise data scientists, data analysts and data engineers. The team leader will also supervise the recharge operation of the NMEDW and percent effort allocations.
Please Note: This role may include working during off or extended hours.
Specific Responsibilities:
Staff Development, Mentoring, and Coaching:
*Motivate and coach the NMEDW Research Analytics Staff to ensure an appropriate mix of leadership and technical skills is available to meet the NMEDW needs. Ensure effective deployment of skills and other resources are being utilized to enhance agility, flexibility, and cost effectiveness in response to NU and clinical research needs. Define and promote best practices and standards for each NMEDW role (i.e. architecture, analysts, developers, etc.) Provide leadership, encouragement, motivation, coaching and mentoring for the development of a strong pool of promotable and internally mobile team members with high functional capabilities.
Information Architecture:
*Provide analysis, design, training, maintenance, tuning, documentation, and implementation of enterprise class logical data models and physical database objects. Create maintainable, scalable "Extract, Transform, and Load" (ETL) code to load and manipulate data in the data warehouse. Has experience working within cloud environments and has implemented or utilized ML/AI related solutions. Works collaboratively with clinical program analytical and data management teams to develop analytical tools to manage/measure care processes, models, and clinical guidelines.
Quality Assurance:
*Oversees system enhancements that will improve the reliability and performance of the system. Ensure design reviews are completed for all new development.
Oversee Advanced Analytics Development:
*Make recommendations for purchases and capital equipment. Ensure the Research Analytics team has the software and tooling needed for advanced analytic functions such as ML/AI and NLP. Manage the development of all data science solutions for EDW in response to the needs of the campus.
Customer Service:
*Engage new and existing customers (Departments, Centers, and Institutes) to ensure needs are met. Prepare and deliver presentations, educational sessions, and workshops related to NMEDW Research Analytics services. Prepare reports and documentation for NMEDW Research Analytics Director and FSM-IT leadership.
Leadership:
*Advise NMEDW Research Analytics Director on direction of NMEDW in terms of Clinical Analytics and Operations. Advise on staff allocation, budgets, and NMEDW scalability. Perform project management for respective team members to ensure timelines and deliverables are met and meet expectations. Represent the NMEDW to senior leadership around campus. Works together with campus leadership to meet the complex delivery schedule inherit to a matrixed organization.
Miscellaneous
Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
*A Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent with five to seven years in a senior database analyst or architect position, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience from which comparable skills and abilities may be acquired.
*Minimum of 5 years' experience in data warehousing or hands-on, sophisticated data analysis.
*Minimum of 5 years' experience in healthcare delivery and research.
*Understanding and experience in applying project management principles and best practices for development or procurement projects.
*Familiar with the design and operation of very large (>10Tbytes) relational database management systems.
*Experience... For full info follow application link.
Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.
