Sr Analyst Data Management - School of Public Health (Dallas)

We are hiring a Senior Analyst Data Management Analyst (Full-time) to join the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Dallas, TX . In this role, you will support multi-site public health projects, including data collection, data management, and analytic coordination. The role works closely with investigators, analysts, and partners to support implementation, translate research questions into data workflows, and produce evaluation reports.

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas' resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That's where you come in.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It's because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you'd expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time - all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you'll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees' wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary:

Performs advanced data management, harmonization, analysis, and troubleshooting for multi-site health services and implementation research projects. Works with EHR, survey, and community-based data and serves as a liaison among investigators, partners, analysts, and research staff to clarify data needs, resolve issues, and support analysis-ready datasets and reports.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• Manages, cleans, harmonizes, and maintains datasets for multiple research projects, including EHR, survey, and community-based data sources.
• Develops and refines data requests, data dictionaries, data collection plans, workflows, and documentation to support evaluation, reporting, and data harmonization across healthcare and community-based systems.
• Communicates with investigators, health system/community partners, and research staff to articulate data requests, clarify evaluation and reporting requirements, troubleshoot data issues, and provide guidance on data collection tools, data structure, coding, quality checks, reporting workflows, and analytic needs.
• Uses statistical and analytic software to clean, manage, analyze, validate, and report research data.
• Creates, supports, and troubleshoots queries, workflows, and processes used to manage data and assess data quality.
• Develops and maintains quality assurance procedures and data validation processes for research datasets and databases.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

• Demonstrated experience using statistical software (e.g., Stata, R, SAS, or similar), preferred.
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Excellent verbal communication and organization skills. Able to execute multiple tasks efficiently, reliably and meet deadlines.
• General knowledge of research field.
  
  
  Experience or interest in working with diverse communities, healthcare
  
  
  disparities, community-based research, electronic health record data and/or implementation or evaluation
  studies.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field required May substitute required education with equivalent years of experience beyond the minimum experience requirement.

Minimum Experience:

• 4 years of experience with complex databases required Experience providing analysis related to data quality required May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive:

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.

Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.