Research Data Engineer I: Data Pipelines & ETL

Rochester; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 37,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Rochester in Rochester, NY seeks a data-focused software professional to support analytical pipelines and data workflows within the Cancer Center Admin M&D department. You will help integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, maintain data infrastructure, and contribute to scalable research software solutions.

With a bachelor’s in data science or related field and experience in SQL, Java, Python, or R, you’ll collaborate in a matrix team and ensure robust,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Biomedical Science, Computer Science, Mathematics or similar.
• 1 year of relevant experience in technology-intensive environments and SQL programming.
• Programming experience in Java and Python and/or R; familiarity with biospecimen software and ELN systems.
• Experience with Linux environments, Docker, and cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Knowledge of data analytics, statistics, and software engineering best practices.
• Strong communication, organization and teamwork skills.
• Familiarity with genomics/metagenomics and data standards is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and modifies ETL data pipelines and data architecture to handle growing data from research sources.
• Translates business and technical requirements into software solutions and manages multiple tasks and timelines.
• Supports data workflow solutions for data collection, management, reporting and analytics in research projects.
• Adheres to development lifecycles including requirements, tests, version control and QA.
• Implements testing procedures to ensure system and data workflow reliability.
• Produces technical documentation for systems under responsibilities and keeps current with developments.

Skills

Data science

SQL

Java

Python

R

Linux

Docker

Cloud tech

Data analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science or related

Tools

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

The University of Rochester in Rochester, NY seeks a data-focused software professional to support analytical pipelines and data workflows within the Cancer Center Admin M&D department. You will help integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, maintain data infrastructure, and contribute to scalable research software solutions.

With a bachelor’s in data science or related field and experience in SQL, Java, Python, or R, you’ll collaborate in a matrix team and ensure robust,