Lead Research Informatics Analyst - Winship Cancer Institute

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The Winship Data and Technology Applications Shared Resource seeks a highly motivated Research Informatics Analyst to support cancer‑focused 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 high‑quality 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 data‑driven 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, aggregate‑level reporting, and the development of reproducible, well‑documented 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 service‑oriented 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 high‑quality cancer research.

• 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.

• Provide informatics and analytic support for cancer research studies, including clinical trials, translational research, and population‑based 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 aggregate‑level summaries, reports, and visualizations to support research and operational decision‑making.
• 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 non‑genomic informatics and…