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Job Category:
Academic Staff
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Profile:
Data Engineer I
Job Summary:
The Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation is seeking a Clinical Research Data Specialist to assist in database development and management of multiple clinical and research databases. This position will primarily support clinical departmental databases and help manage centralizing data in an efficient and accurate manner, as well as assist with preparing datasets for analysis. This will include development of standard operating procedures for all aspects of data entry, quality assessments, and exporting for analysis. Additionally, the position will support creating, maintaining, and analyzing research databases for prospective research studies. This position will work closely with the Badger Athletic Performance program, patient reported outcome data, and data extracted from the electronic medical record.
A successful candidate will have experience working with large clinical datasets in a research setting. Demonstrated experience with data management via software including REDCap and Excel are strongly preferred. Familiarity with the research process including data collection and preparing data for analysis is preferred. Familiarity with coding languages such as R, Python, Matlab, or others is helpful but not required.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Develops, constructs, tests, and maintains architectures for large-scale data management and analysis
- Serves as an institutional subject matter expert and liaison to key internal and external stakeholders regarding automated data management and analysis at scale for research and represents the interests of large-scale data management and analysis for research
- Selects appropriate technologies and optimizes pipelines for performance
- Organizes both data preparation and analysis steps into reproducible pipelines that can process similar data sets automatically
- Implements data analysis steps in collaboration with data scientists, statisticians, and/or other researchers and may use technologies that support data at scale
- Prepares data sets for current and future analysis including cleaning/quality assurance, transformations, restructuring, and integration of multiple data sources and may use technologies that support data at scale
- May supervise the data-to-day activities of staff and resolves routine personnel issues
Department:
School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine
The Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation is committed to conducting cutting edge research, training the next generation of leaders and providing world-class patient care for both adults and pediatric patients. The Department embraces both independent and collaborative work-styles. Our general approach is to empower individuals to work independently through thorough and hands-on training and onboarding, while also having regular meetings with collaborators and support staff within the department to foster a strong team environment.
Compensation:
The starting salary for the position is $62,000 annually; but is negotiable based on experience and qualifications.
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. For more information, refer to the campus benefits webpage and the SMPH Faculty /Academic Staff Benefits Flyer 2026
Preferred Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree preferred minimum.
Applicants with Master’s Degree are highly preferred and given first consideration; focus in Bioinformatics, Clinical Informatics, Data Science, Data Engineering, or related field preferred.
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Contact Information:
Mikel Joachim, joachim@ortho.wisc.edu, 608-890-4261
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