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Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

The Winship Data and Technology Applications Shared Resource seeks a highly motivated Research Informatics Analyst to support cancerfocused translational, clinical, and population research across the Winship Cancer Institute. This position serves as a key component of the shared resource infrastructure, providing centralized informatics and analytic expertise to investigators conducting cancer research across discovery, translational, and clinical domains.

The Research Informatics Analyst will function as a collaborative partner to investigators, clinicians, data scientists, and IT/informatics teams, delivering highquality analytic, data integration, and feasibility assessment support across diverse project portfolios. The role enables investigators to effectively leverage complex and heterogeneous research datasets to support hypothesis generation, study design, cohort identification, and datadriven discovery in alignment with precision oncology and cancer outcomes research efforts.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial experience working with complex clinical and research datasets, including genomics and molecular profiling data, and will contribute to project feasibility analyses, aggregatelevel reporting, and the development of reproducible, welldocumented analytic workflows. This position operates within a regulated research environment and requires familiarity with data governance, privacy, regulatory requirements, and best practices that ensure rigor, transparency, and responsible data use.

As part of a centralized shared resource, the Research Informatics Analyst is expected to balance technical depth with a strong serviceoriented mindset, supporting multiple concurrent projects while collaborating across interdisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will contribute to the sustainability, impact, and scientific value of the shared resource by advancing standardized approaches, scalable informatics solutions, and reproducible analytic practices that drive highquality cancer research.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads efforts to ensure informatics systems support and advance the research objectives and mission of Emory University.
• Works directly with researchers to document, analyze, and translate their needs into technical designs and informatics solutions.
• Utilizes standard software requirements and design practices to document informatics solutions to support a wide range of research activities across the university.
• Leads project team from concept to closeout phase.
• Applies biomedical informatics technical standards, methodologies, and principles to research-specific program needs, objectives, and outcomes.
• Manages, from a client business perspective, related systems projects.
• Ensures a high level of client satisfaction by monitoring the delivery of ongoing information systems to the enterprise.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

• Provide informatics and analytic support for cancer research studies, including clinical trials, translational research, and populationbased analyses.
  
• Access, integrate, clean, and analyze complex datasets from multiple sources, including clinical, molecular, genomic, and research data systems.
  
• Partner with investigators to assess project feasibility, interpret research protocols, and translate eligibility criteria into analytic and informatics workflows.
  
• Respond to ad hoc analytic requests and generate aggregatelevel summaries, reports, and visualizations to support research and operational decisionmaking.
  
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across technical, clinical, and research domains to ensure accurate data interpretation and timely project delivery.
  
• Apply best practices for data quality, documentation, reproducibility, and governance within a regulated research environment.
  
• Support additional nongenomic informatics and analytic activities as assigned.
• Process, interpret, and integrate oncology genomic data — including NGS panel results, somatic variant calls, IHC/biomarker outputs, and liquid biopsy data from vendors such as Caris Life Sciences and Guardant — into research and clinical trial workflows.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor's degree and seven years of experience in information technology or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Five years working within a health, research, or academic institution preferred.
• Knowledge of data and information systems standards relevant to the field of biomedical informatics and health systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree in informatics, data science, public health, computer science, biology, biostatistics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience working with research or clinical datasets in an academic or healthcare setting.
  
• Experience working with oncology genomics or molecular profiling data, including NGS, IHC, biomarkers, variants, and associated clinical metadata.
• Familiarity with Caris/Guardant, cBioPortal, TCGA/dbGaP workflows.
  
• Experience supporting project feasibility assessments, responding to ad hoc analytic requests, and generating aggregatelevel summary outputs.
  
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply research protocols and eligibility criteria to analytic and informatics workflows.
  
• Familiarity with research data governance, regulatory requirements, and best practices for documentation and reproducibility.
• Demonstrated genomics/NGS experience, SQL/Python/R proficiency
• SAS, cloud (AWS), project management, deidentification practices

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University location as needed and at times, on short notice. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee. 

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities). Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to the Emory University Department of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, 201 Dowman Drive, Administration Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone: 404-727-9867 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD).

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