Data Analyst - BBI Service Core

Effectively work with primary investigators and HMNCC members, with data analysis, study design, data analysis proposals, study form development, grant proposal/protocol development and review.
Develops new ideas that promote current research. Exercises a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgement in planning, organizing, and guiding extensive scientific research programs and activities of outstanding novelty and/or importance.

• Ensures timely and accurate completion of research projects.
  Prepare data sets for analyses, including checking for data anomalies, statistical analyses and provide data summaries including graphical representations, tables, and analysis reports for ongoing studies and study investigator meetings.
• Effectively collaborate and communicate with multidisciplinary teams including clinicians, trainees (e.g. residents, fellows), project staff, external collaborators and personnel involved in various projects.
• Prepare summaries of methods and interpretations of results for analysis reports, presentations, study manuscripts, monitoring reports, and grant applications.
• Respond in a timely manner to various analytic requests from study investigators.
• Provide independent consultation for smaller consulting projects as requested.
• May participate in writing grant proposals.
• May develop protocol for the collection and quality of research data
• May coordinate the activity and experimental design between various labs, scientific staff, and collaborators.
• Initiates, interprets, organizes, executes, and coordinates research assignments critical to department’s mission.

Ideal applicants will have a Master’s degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, or similar quantitative field required with experience in data analysis, preferably in a healthcare/research setting.

• Excellent general written/verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in R, Python and MATLAB with experience with Image data is a plus.
• Outstanding ability to communicate technical information to both technical and nontechnical audiences; ability to effectively communicate technical concepts both written and verbal.
• Excellent skills in using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, relational databases (userfriendly interfaces) are expected.
• Demonstrated experience in at least one area of expertise, statistical methodology such as longitudinal, survival analysis, or informatics; statistical computing; biomedical informatics, graphical techniques.
• Strong analytic skills including machine learning type analytic skills, correlated data, longitudinal, survival and multivariate data analysis, etc.
• Strong ability in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Possesses a track record of collaboration on research projects.

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Communicates results of queries in database systems and upgrades regarding electronic protocol management system to coworkers, staff and management.

• Completes and works directly with physicians, clinical staff and management on customized data queries and other requests for operational and research needs.

• Fosters teamwork approach in all interactions with peers and team members. Anticipates needs of other team members; proactively offering assistance. Provides contributions towards improvement of department scores for turnover/retention/employee engagement.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provides troubleshooting logic in relation to technical support.

• Provides and/or supervises gathering, entering and auditing of data in database.

• Assists with design and implementation of processes to ensure accurate data collection and input.

• Performs statistical analysis interpretation by preparing reports (monthly, quarterly and/or as needed) on productivity, quality activities, trends and other clinical or business metrics relevant to the department.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Conducts routine data processing and implementation of quality control methods.

• Develops standard operating procedures. Ensures compliance with all HIPAA/confidentiality regulations.

• In conjunction with management, participates in performance improvement program for department.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Conducts, as appropriate, statistical power and sample size determination, inferential hypothesis testing, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases.

• Responsible for all aspects of clinical data analyses for multiple studies.

• Programs and develops algorithms for numerical methods and develops workflow and data pipelines as needed for project(s).

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Collaborates with Technology regarding software system proposals, purchases, installations, upgrades, enhancements and modifications.

• Identifies and assumes responsibility of own learning needs, consults with team experts and seeks continuing education opportunities to meet those needs. Completes and updates the individual development plan (IDP) on an on-going basis. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics or related field

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Three years in data analysis, preferably in a healthcare/research setting