Research Data Quality Analyst GEMINI Data Ops (Job ID: 4143)
GEMINI (www.geminimedicine.ca) is a unique big data platform in the Canadian healthcare landscape using advanced methods and analytics to extract and standardize data captured in hospital electronic health records. GEMINI currently exists at 30+ ON hospitals, where we have collected data on over 2 million hospital admissions across more than 30 hospitals. The GEMINI data platform supports the Ontario General Medicine Quality Improvement Network (GeMQIN), a provincial network led by Ontario Health to improve care for general medicine hospital patients. GEMINI is a collaborative data and analytics platform for all Ontario hospitals to accelerate research and quality improvement, leading to excellent hospital care.
We are looking to hire a Data Quality Analyst to join the GEMINI team and help develop a truly unique data platform in the Canadian healthcare landscape. The Data Quality Analyst will support and write reproducible code for GEMINI¿s data pipeline including conducting quality checks, formatting, validating, and standardizing data from multiple sources, supporting administrative tasks, performing descriptive analyses, and optimizing and retrieving data from our internal databases.
We are looking for a candidate with excellent data processing skills, demonstrated experience working with large datasets, programming skills, strong understanding of biostatistics and analytical methods, and an aptitude for data visualization. You will be joining a dynamic, fun and mission-driven team of clinicians, researchers, and quality improvement experts. Strong interpersonal and communication skills will be an important asset in this role.
This is a one-year contract position with the possibility of renewal.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Data Processing and Analysis (80%)
- Conduct pre-processing checks on raw data collected from hospitals to align with GEMINI¿s data reference model
- Perform quality control checks following standard operating procedures to ensure data is complete and of high quality
- Pre-process raw data which includes formatting and merging data from multiple sources, as well as understanding overall data quality
- Standardize and harmonize data from data sets to prepare for loading into database
- Conducts exploratory and statistical analysis of data to assess feasibility of new data science projects using R
- Perform descriptive and inferential statistical analysis in R
- Write HTML/PDF/Microsoft Word reports summarizing the analysis
- Create and modify R code as required
- Efficiently identify and correct syntax and programming logic errors in R code
- Responds to ad-hoc requests from GEMINI team
Data Administration (20%)
- Maintain and assist with writing/updating standard operating procedures and other documents to support data processing work
- Engage with stakeholders to clarify data quality issues
- Notify manager and data scientists of any issues and errors with code/analysis
- Write documentation and contribute to project code repositories so that all work is reproducible
- Attend code review meetings to discuss any problems/solutions to project code bases
- Support GEMINI¿s data operation needs
- Explains capabilities and limitations of databases and information to researchers and other stakeholders
Qualifications:
- Bachelor¿s degree in Computer Science, Statistics/Biostatistics and/or related discipline/ OR demonstrable equivalent combination of specialized education and experience (New graduates are welcome)
- Experience with R or Python for data analysis and data visualization
- Excellent attention to detail and proven ability to learn new skills
- Experience working independently and as part of a team
- Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple tasks in a timely manner
- Demonstrated the ability to adapt and manage changing priorities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience working with and manipulating large datasets including merging and analyzing data from multiple sources
- Experience using key databases such as: SQL is a plus
- Proficient with MS Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
- Experience working in Linux/Unix environment is an asset
- Experience with git is an asset
- Experience with healthcare data is an asset
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