Research Data Scientist: Data Quality & AI Readiness

UWMSN University of Wisconsin Madison; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking a Research Data Scientist – Data Quality to advance the Wisconsin Health Data Hub (WHDH) by designing scalable data quality frameworks and automated checks for clinical and research datasets.

You will collaborate with data engineers, informaticians, and researchers to implement quality controls in cloud environments, drive governance, and ensure reproducible data workflows for transformative biomedical analytics.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years’ of professional experience in data science, research data management, data quality, data analytics, or a related technical field.
• Experience developing and implementing data quality processes, including data profiling, validation, cleansing, standardization, anomaly detection, and monitoring.
• Strong programming experience in Python, R, and SQL with ability to transform complex datasets.

Responsibilities

• Data Quality Assessment & Data Science: design, implement, and maintain scalable data quality frameworks for clinical, biomedical, and research datasets; perform profiling and exploratory analysis to identify quality issues.
• Data Quality Engineering & Platform Integration: develop automated validation and quality-control processes; build reusable data quality components and APIs; integrate into WHDH data pipelines and cloud environments.
• Research Data Standardization & Data Readiness: collaborate to define quality requirements; improve standardization, normalization, and harmonization across sources; support data lineage, metadata, and documentation.
• Data Quality Governance & Collaboration: translate requirements into standards and procedures; work with governance teams to establish policies; communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement & Technology Transfer: evaluate new data science and quality technologies; develop reusable methodologies; support deployment of quality tools across projects.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Data quality

Data analytics

Statistical methods

Communication

Education

PhD or terminal degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

Azure Synapse

MS Fabric

ADF (Azure Data Factory)

Job description

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking a Research Data Scientist – Data Quality to advance the Wisconsin Health Data Hub (WHDH) by designing scalable data quality frameworks and automated checks for clinical and research datasets.

You will collaborate with data engineers, informaticians, and researchers to implement quality controls in cloud environments, drive governance, and ensure reproducible data workflows for transformative biomedical analytics.