R & Shiny Data Scientist for Clinical Trials

Medpace; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and retirement benefits

On-site with occasional WFH

Company social events

Job summary

Medpace is expanding a Clinical Informatics team to support data analytics, visualization, and accessibility across clinical trials. The role collaborates with Clinical Operations to evaluate study protocols, validate data products, and improve operational efficiency through internal and enterprise solutions.

You will partner with software engineering to build and deploy Shiny applications and dashboards, applying R programming and data wrangling to deliver impactful results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in informatics, CS/engineering, biomedical engineering, health information, statistics, or related field.
• Analytical thinker with great attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects on a sprint schedule.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Programming experience in R.
• Work experience with clinical data.
• Experience building web applications is preferred (Shiny or Streamlit).
• Experience building dashboards is preferred (PowerBI, Tableau, or Spotfire).

Responsibilities

• Evaluate data needs for assigned projects and recommend strategic approaches per study design.
• Work with operational and medical leads to contribute innovative data products (primarily Shiny apps).
• Contribute to internal R package development for efficient cross-departmental programming practices.
• Interact with relational data at study and enterprise levels including querying, wrangling, analysis, and reporting.
• Innovate algorithms to describe, classify, and predict operational outcomes of clinical trials.
• Support departmental process improvement initiatives.

Skills

R programming

Analytical thinking

Verbal communication

Project prioritization

Clinical data experience

Web apps (Shiny/Streamlit)

Dashboard development (PowerBI/Tableau

Education

Bachelor's in informatics or related field

Tools

R

SQL

Shiny

Streamlit

PowerBI

Tableau

Spotfire

Job description

Medpace is expanding a Clinical Informatics team to support data analytics, visualization, and accessibility across clinical trials. The role collaborates with Clinical Operations to evaluate study protocols, validate data products, and improve operational efficiency through internal and enterprise solutions.

You will partner with software engineering to build and deploy Shiny applications and dashboards, applying R programming and data wrangling to deliver impactful results.