Data Management Coordinator

University of Miami; United States; On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Tuition remission

Job summary

The University of Miami/UHealth Department of Neurology has a Part Time TEMP Data Management Coordinator opening at UHealth. The role focuses on end-to-end data handling from REDCap to analysis-ready tables in Azure, with HIPAA-compliant practices and reporting support for multiple studies.

The incumbent will build and maintain data collection tools, run Python pipelines, generate reports, and collaborate with study teams to resolve data issues, ensuring accurate, audit-ready datasets.

Qualifications

• Data lifecycle knowledge in research data domains.
• Experience with PHI handling and IRB-driven data management.
• Ability to design validation checks and reconcile data sources.

Responsibilities

• Review research proposals, awards, contracts, and related data documents.
• Generate reports and analyze data for planning and reporting.
• Identify and resolve data bugs and anomalies.
• Create reports for user departments and exports for study teams.
• Build and manage REDCap projects, instruments and surveys.
• Run Python pipelines pulling data into Azure data lake.
• Maintain data notebooks and metadata using Synapse and Delta patterns.
• Ensure HIPAA compliance and data de-identification as required.

Skills

REDCap

Python

PySpark

Azure

Data governance

HIPAA compliance

Data quality

Data analysis

Report generation

SQL/ databases

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

REDCap

Azure

Synapse

Delta tables

Microsoft Power BI

Job description

Data Management Coordinator

The University of Miami/UHealth Department of Neurology has an exciting opportunity for a Part Time TEMP Data Management Coordinator to work at UHealth.

Responsibilities

• Data Management Coordinator reviews new research administration proposals, awards, contracts, and other relevant data documents.
• Generates reports and analyzes data for internal planning processes and reporting purposes.
• Identifies and finds solutions for bugs and data anomalies.
• Analyzes user requests for customized reports and coordinates closely with user departments to resolve complex data problems.
• Supports the compilation of statistical reports.
• Develops forms and tools for data collection and analysis.
• Conducts record ownership transfers between databases.
• Advocates for the use of appropriate reporting tools and efficient processes to improve data tracking and reporting.
• Meets the daily reporting requirements from relevant information systems.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions

• The data manager owns CCBH's clinical research data end to end, from collection in REDCap to analysis-ready tables in Azure.
• The work covers longitudinal study data, neuropsychological assessments and multi-study datasets, all handled under HIPAA requirements.
• The role is both technical and service facing.
• The data manager builds and maintains the platform, and also supports the research team with exports, reports and new study instruments.
• Build and manage REDCap projects, instruments and surveys, including bilingual English and Spanish versions.
• Generate and manage participant GUIDs across studies and maintain the CCBH GUID Portal linking GUID, study ID, REDCap record ID and visit status.
• Run Python pipelines that pull REDCap and study data into the Azure data lake.
• Maintain bronze, silver and gold notebooks in Synapse with watermarking, metadata-driven transforms and Delta merge patterns.
• Standardize study IDs across Clinic, CCBH, DPI and MCS sources and build composite keys from REDCap events.
• Reconcile REDCap exports against lake data, catch mismatches and fix them at the source.
• Manage Delta tables per study (CBB, DLB, HBI, Clinic) with catalog and column documentation, and maintain the data dictionary.
• Run de-identification and pseudonymization using HMAC-hashed subject IDs, and keep all handling HIPAA compliant.
• Build clean, documented datasets for investigators and statisticians to use in analyses, papers and grant work.
• Build participant lists and datasets that support recruitment, screening and study enrollment.
• Own the internal data export app with Microsoft login, required justification per export and audit logging to Synapse.
• Produce enrollment and retention reports, compliance reports as PDFs, and ad hoc exports for the research team.
• Manage Azure resources, access, Key Vault secrets and environment configuration.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Data lifecycle knowledge.Understands collection, storage, transformation, governance, archiving and retention, and how each applies to research data.
• Medical or clinical data experience.
• Has worked with PHI and knows HIPAA, de-identification and IRB-driven data handling.
• Data quality and assurance practices.
• Can design validation checks, reconcile sources, track and resolve discrepancies, and keep data audit ready.
• REDCap.
• Can build and manage projects, instruments, branching logic, calculated fields, piping, longitudinal events and the REDCap API.
• Expert Python with PySpark.
• Can read, debug and extend existing pipelines and notebooks without rewriting them.
• Delta tables.
• Understands merges, schema evolution, time travel and medallion layering.
• Microsoft Azure.
• Comfortable with Synapse, Data Lake Storage, Key Vault and resource permissions.
• Any relevant education, certifications and/or work experience may be considered.

Benefits

• The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

Job Status

Part time Employee Type: Temporary-Intermittent

University Information

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

University Rankings

The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.