[Hiring] Oncology Clinical Data Specialist @Flatiron Health

Role Description

We’re looking for a Clinical Data specialist to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

In this role, you will be responsible for working with the clinical and product teams to execute on and further develop our end-to-end data extraction processes. This includes extracting complex structured and unstructured clinical data from electronic medical records, ensuring high quality data that benefit cancer patients and researchers. In addition you will:

• Develop and update data curation instruction documents as well as data capture forms for multiple solid tumour types and hematologic malignancies, respectively, and their diagnostic and therapeutic areas.
• Help to develop and refine ML and LLM enabled curation methods.
• Support data quality and control activities, including maintenance and improvement of existing QA processes, clarifying guidance, correcting errors and refining standard operating procedures in order to build up and maintain high quality data sets.
• Plan feasibility and initial testing of novel data points or new data extraction approaches.
• Contribute to product development by synthesizing data and feedback to provide insights about the abstraction process (e.g., to support development of our abstraction tool and leverage machine learning and automation).
• Support quality assurance on dataset deliverables and data analyses.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team including technical (e.g., software engineering, data science), partnerships and product managers, product designers, data privacy experts, research scientists, and clinical professionals. By presenting your work processes and results, you keep your direct and extended team up to date with your work progress.
• Weigh tradeoffs (e.g., upside/downside for different options) and clearly communicate data-driven recommendations to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Provide clinical expertise to support the processing and harmonisation of structured data points.

Qualifications

• You are certified as a study nurse, physician, or other form clinical professional, or you have a comparable professional education, or you have a bachelor's or master's degree in the fields of health sciences, biology, molecular medicine, or a related applied science, or you have education as a nurse with additional training or several years of clinical work in oncology/haematology.
• You are familiar with all aspects of how cancer is managed, from diagnosis until cessation of treatment, and fluent in cancer terminology as well as in general German medical terminology.
• You have experience with the presentation of clinical data (e.g. ICD codes, cancer registry data) and the treatment pathways in oncology care.
• You have familiarity with electronic health record systems, electronic data capture forms, or other data management systems.
• You have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate clinical issues effectively with a diverse team of software engineers, product managers, and other technical staff.
• You demonstrate exceptional attention to detail but you are also pragmatic in the search for solutions.
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, cross functional and international environment and are able to react with flexibility to ambiguity.
• You are fluent in German (C-level, mandatory requirement) and have very good English proficiencies (minimum requirement B2-level).

Optional

• You have a strong interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) and experience in applying them to data processing.

Company Description

Our people are at the center of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity.