The National Center for Clinical Trials (NCCT) is designed to serve as an innovative platform to revolutionize and catalyze the conduct of clinical trials−greatly accelerating the translation of scientific findings into improvements in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease for our communities and patients. The NCCT will offer core services for patient recruitment and enrollment, trial administration and follow-up, and to gather real world data and evidence.

The Clinical Trial Methods Center (CTMC) has been established within the Wake Forest University School of Medicine to provide the necessary tools and expertise that the NCCT will access and apply to deliver many of its core services.

This position will be part of a team that provides informatics expertise including data discovery, extraction, analysis, and management; and will evaluate and integrate data into an OMOP common data model in a Snowflake/Azure environment to support general research needs as well as the tasks, goals, and priorities set by the NCCT Leadership Team, Informatics team, and project leaders. This role leverages data to help the NCCT execute clinical trial startup, from site and study feasibility, through patient recruitment and data collection, to follow-up metrics and process assessment.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree in an applicable field with 3 years of experience writing complex SQL data queries; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Design and implement database Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) procedures and jobs with minimal supervision.

Implements complicated queries to databases and create automated reporting schemes. Analyzes and develops quality control needs of large projects.

Document processes, data dictionaries, data lineages and collect metrics.

Exhibit ability to use a wide variety of research computer software tools and operating system environments.

Attends project and/or departmental meetings and contributes to the project design concerning data management needs. Consults with users on project design needs. Maintains a professional relationship with project and departmental personnel.

Mentor and guide junior database programmers.

Achieve and maintain EPIC Clarity certifications within 2-5 months of hire date (may require up to two trips to EPIC Training facility in Wisconsin)

Performs other related duties incidental to work described herein.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with SQL queries and multi-tier SQL system development on multiple platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres)

Experience with healthcare and/or biomedical research operations and systems

Experience with database systems administration, performance profiling, index creation and evaluation

Experience with agile software development and the software lifecycle

Experience with code versioning systems such as Git

Experience working in cloud environments, particularly Azure and the Snowflake data stack

Strong initiative and proven ability to work independently

Ability to communicate on a professional level with customers and staff

Superior problem-solving skills

Existing EPIC Certifications a huge plus

About Us

Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is a U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranked medical school, integrated with a world-class health system, Atrium Health. WFUSM, the academic core of Advocate Health Enterprise, is a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. WFUSM has over $300M in annual, extramural funding that drives a cutting-edge Academic Learning Health System by integrating innovative research with excellent patient care across our enterprise.

Atrium Health is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. AHWFB is an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians.

Our highly integrated academic and clinical environment is deeply committed to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing – for all.

It should be noted that while you are applying on the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Career Site, you will receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process.  Thanks in advance for your flexibility.

About the Team

Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care. 

Culture Commitments

We create a space where all Belong

We Work as One to make great things happen

We earn Trust in all we do

We Innovate to better the now and create the future

We drive for Excellence – always