Research Informatics Associate

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a Research Informatics Associate to support clinical, translational, and population health research by building research data resources, databases, and informatics solutions.

The associate turns complex clinical data into research-ready assets as part of the NC TraCS Informatics and Data Science team. This role also works with investigators, clinicians, data scientists, and research staff to turn scientific goals into scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• 3 years of work experience with health care or clinical data in an analytic capacity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale clinical research databases and informatics resources.
• Build data integration, transformation, and harmonization processes across sources (EHRs, claims).
• Manage multiple informatics projects with documentation and reproducible workflows.
• Contribute informatics expertise to grant proposals, manuscripts, and presentations.

Skills

SQL programming

Data modeling

Omop/PCORnet/Epic data models

ETL / data integration

Tools

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a Research Informatics Associate to support clinical, translational, and population health research by building research data resources, databases, and informatics solutions. The associate turns complex clinical data into research-ready assets as part of the NC TraCS Informatics and Data Science team. This role also works with investigators, clinicians, data scientists, and research staff to turn scientific goals into scalable data solutions.

Highlights

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale clinical research databases and informatics resources.
• Build data integration, transformation, and harmonization processes that combine data from sources such as multi-site electronic health data and claims data.
• Manage multiple informatics projects while developing documentation, technical standards, and reproducible workflows.
• Contribute informatics expertise to grant proposals, manuscripts, and presentations.
• Ensure adherence to data governance, security, confidentiality, and HIPAA requirements.
• Require 3 years of work experience with health care or clinical data in an analytic capacity.
• Bring expert-level SQL programming and data modeling skills on systems like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.
• Know at least one data model: OMOP, PCORnet, Epic Clarity, Epic Caboodle, or UNC Carolina Data Warehouse.
• Work remotely Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, with flexibility inside that window.
• Pay a hiring range of $95, $125,000 per year.