UNIV - Senior Data Architect, Research Analytics - Department of SCTR
Listed on 2026-10-30
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Data Warehousing
The Senior Data Architect, Research Analytics will lead the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Science (SCTR) Institute’s data and reporting strategy and will engage with enterprise IS data leadership and teams to strategize for the design, creation, refinement, and long-term sustainability of an enterprise research data repository that integrates and curates data from multiple disparate systems across the research lifecycle. This role serves as a critical technical and strategic partner to IS and research leadership and administration, finance, operations, compliance, and analytics teams.
The Senior Data Architect will lead the development of a trusted, scalable research data environment supporting SCTR’s metric tracking and reporting and continuous quality improvement data strategy and decision-making. The position will enable comprehensive reporting across financial performance, awards, earned revenue, operational efficiency, research performance, regulatory compliance, and study and participant-level metrics.
EntityMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC - Univ)
Worker TypeEmployee
Worker Sub-TypeClassified
Cost CenterCC001064 COM SCTR Operations CC
Pay Rate TypeSalary
Pay GradeUniversity-TEC
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81,192.
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40
Job DescriptionThe Senior Data Architect, Research Analytics will lead the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Science (SCTR) Institute’s data and reporting strategy and will engage with enterprise IS data leadership and teams to strategize for the design, creation, refinement, and long-term sustainability of an enterprise research data repository that integrates and curates data from multiple disparate systems across the research lifecycle. This role serves as a critical technical and strategic partner to IS and research leadership and administration, finance, operations, compliance, and analytics teams.
The Senior Data Architect will lead the development of a trusted, scalable research data environment supporting SCTR’s metric tracking and reporting and continuous quality improvement data strategy and decision-making. The position will enable comprehensive reporting across financial performance, awards, earned revenue, operational efficiency, research performance, regulatory compliance, and study and participant-level metrics.
Job Duties:Research Data Repository Architecture & Design 20%
- Engage with enterprise IS Data teams to design and maintain the logical and physical architecture of a centralized research repository integrating data from numerous source systems, including but not limited to:
- Financial systems (awards, expenditures, revenue, effort)
- Grants and contracts management systems
- Clinical trial management systems (CTMS)
- Research service request systems (SPARC)
- Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Compliance Systems
- Learning management and training systems
- Human resources and faculty appointment systems
- Define standards for data modeling, normalization, dimensional modeling, and metadata management to ensure data quality, scalability, and performance
- Lead the development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, harmonize, and curate data from disparate systems with varying structures, definitions, and data quality.
- Ensure alignment between System APIs, and Integrations looking at workflows of systems such as RIMD, SPARC, CTMS, IRB, Epic, and financial systems.
- Establish and document authoritative data sources, business rules, and transformation logic for research metrics.
- Ensure consistent representation of investigators, departments, academic medical center (AMC) affiliations, colleges, and organizational hierarchies across systems.
- Implement processes to manage historical data, changes…
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