Job Description

Job Summary
The Welm Lab at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute seeks a Data Wrangler to contribute to their translational breast cancer research. The successful candidate will be responsible ensuring genomics data, laboratory assay data, and de-identified clinical data is efficiently organized and prepared for statistical analyses. They will perform data quality assessments, systematically label data, harmonize and normalize data, and integrate diverse data to produce analysis-ready datasets. This will involve developing and maintaining custom data scripts, pipelines, databases, web applications and documentation. If you have a passion for data and analytics, an eye for detail and accuracy, and you thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, we look forward to hearing from you.

Huntsman Cancer Institute is committed to cancer prevention, care, and survivorship for all communities within the area we serve – which includes Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming – with impact worldwide.

In your cover letter or during your interview process, we invite you to share how your professional experiences have prepared you to serve as a member of our team as we work to reduce the cancer burden experienced by all people and communities. This may include description of your prior experiences related to research, prevention, clinical care, community engagement/outreach, training, administration, or other areas relevant to Huntsman Cancer Institute’s mission and this position.
Responsibilities
Disclaimer
This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically required
Nearly Continuously: Office environment.

Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be required
Nearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking.
Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking.
Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, data science, data analysis or a related field and a minimum of 4 years of experience in the field or related area (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience)
Experience with managing, manipulating, and analyzing large datasets
Proficiency in Unix, R, and Python
Ability to keep well-documented code while generating project deliverables on time
Excellent communication skills
Demonstrated success working in a team-oriented environment
This is a patient-sensitive position and the applicant must be willing to complete HIPAA training.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree and 6-8 years of related experience in the field or related area or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience) required.

This position has no responsibility for providing care to patients.

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.
Preferences
Preferences:
Working knowledge of data mining and statistical data analysis methods
Experience with developing, maintaining, and querying SQL databases
Ability to generate interactive visualizations using R-Shiny or similar frameworks
Experience using high performance compute clusters with attached local storage
Experience with Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3)
Experience with Cloud-based compute services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Experience with Cloud-based bioinformatics platforms such as Seven Bridges/Velsera, DNA Nexus, Terra