[Hiring] Research Data Scientist @Universities of Wisconsin

Role Description

The Research Data Scientist – Data Quality will serve as a hands-on technical contributor responsible for developing, implementing, and operationalizing data quality capabilities within the Wisconsin Health Data Hub (WHDH) platform. This role focuses on the practical application of data science, statistical, and computational methods to assess, improve, and monitor the quality of complex clinical, biomedical, and research data.

• Design and implement scalable data quality processes that identify issues related to data accuracy, completeness, consistency, validity, timeliness, and provenance across large datasets.
• Develop automated quality checks, metrics, monitoring capabilities, and analytical approaches that transform complex health data into trusted, research-ready data assets.
• Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, informaticians, solutions architects, security specialists, and research stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of professional experience in data science, research data management, data quality, data analytics, or a related technical field.
• Strong programming experience in Python, R, SQL with demonstrated ability to analyze and transform complex datasets.
• Experience developing and implementing data quality processes, including data profiling, validation, cleansing, standardization, anomaly detection, and quality monitoring.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify patterns, inconsistencies, anomalies, and root causes of data quality issues.
• Experience communicating complex data quality findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Develop and implement informatics pipelines for the processing, integration, and harmonization of heterogeneous data sources.
• Develop predictive models using retrospective real-world data to estimate disease risk, progression, and treatment effectiveness.
• Prepare data sets for analysis including cleaning/quality assurance, transformations, restructuring, and integration of multiple data sources.
• Document approaches to address research questions and contribute to the establishment of reproducible research methodologies and analysis workflows.

Benefits

• Starting salary of $90,000 annually; negotiable based on experience and qualifications.
• Generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
• Competitive insurances and savings accounts.
• Retirement benefits.

Company Description

The Wisconsin Health Data Hub (WHDH) is a grant-funded initiative within the Office of Informatics Division at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. WHDH brings together a multidisciplinary team of technologists responsible for designing, implementing, and operating a secure data enclave that supports the responsible use of real-world health data for biomedical research.

• Develops and manages a scalable data platform that enables researchers to efficiently access, integrate, and analyze large-scale health datasets.
• Provides advanced data services, governance frameworks, and analytical capabilities.
• Accelerates the research lifecycle while ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory, privacy, and security requirements.