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Data Specialist Jobs in Toronto, ON at University of Toronto
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Date Posted:04/16/2024
Req ID:36999
Faculty/Division:Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department:Dept of Family & Community Medicine
Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number:00054669
Description:
About us:
Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science, and the rehabilitation sciences sectors. This Data Specialist role is based at the Faculty’s Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM).
Your opportunity:
Reporting to the Associate Director of DFCM’s Research Program while receiving functional direction from the program’s Database Architect, the Data Specialist will support various research projects within UPLEARN, theuniversity’s practice-based research and learning network of electronic medical record (EMR) data, and POPLAR, the provincial network of primary care EMR networks. This role will have a particular focus on a new and innovative initiative called theCare Canvas Dashboard. The incumbent will support the update of this quality improvement (QI) dashboard, which is used by primary care physicians and administrators, including the creation of new data features and front-end integrations. The person in this role will have end-to-end ownership of the project. The Data Specialist will manipulate incoming data, create metrics, ensure that those changes are reflected properly in the front-end design of the dashboard, and ensure that the dashboard is accessed in a secure manner by end users. The UofT-based UPLEARN and provincial POPLAR networks share a mission to revolutionize primary care by bridging gaps between research and practice. As the Data Specialist, you will be at the heart of our innovative projects, collaborating with top researchers, clinicians, and practices across all of our DFCM academic sites. Together, we work towards improving primary care health and service outcomes for all in Ontario.
Your responsibilities will include:
Developing project schedules including milestones, critical path, timelines, deliverables, and reporting
Analyzing complex data that requires great precision and attention to many details
Analyzing and writing program scripts to extract data from a Postgres database, reformat, analyze, then present data in a meaningful way for the target audience
Designing, optimizing and processing data sets
Running queries to gather data and maintaining data archives
Probing for information to determine requirements for ad hoc data requests
Training end-users on procedures and the use of system
Essential Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum five years of relevant and related experience
Strong collaboration skills (working within Physicians, other analysts, and stakeholders within the health care system)
Minimum two years’ experience with and manipulating data in Python
Minimum two years’ NoSQL (MongoDB) data storage
Basic knowledge of SQL (PostGres)
Applied knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Experience with AWS tools (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, VPC)
Experience and understanding of current best practices regarding data security and authentication mech…
Title: Data Specialist
Company: University of Toronto
Location: Toronto, ON
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