Data Manager - Liver Transplant Research

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has an exciting full-time job opportunity to work in the PUMP Consortium, a multinational collaboration among leading liver-transplant centers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. The consortium is aggregating high-resolution clinical and physiologic data to accelerate research on machine preservation of donor livers and to improve transplant outcomes.

We are seeking a Data Manager / Data Quality Specialist to own the ingestion, harmonization, and ongoing quality-control (QC) of consortium data. Working within Mount Sinai’s high-performance computing environment, you will curate retrospective datasets and build automated QC pipelines for prospective data entering the cloud-based PUMP platform. You will be involved in delivering clean, analysis-ready datasets that meet HIPAA and GDPR standards, setting the foundation for downstream biostatistics, machine-learning, and clinical insights.

Your work will directly enable cutting-edge machine-learning models and clinical studies aimed at expanding the donor liver pool and improving patient survival worldwide. If you are passionate about advancing healthcare through collaborative research and innovation, we encourage you to apply and join our dynamic team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

• Data Curation & Harmonization: map and reconcile variable definitions from multiple centers; maintain detailed data dictionaries and change logs
• Quality Control: design and run QC checks for completeness, plausibility, range and cross-field consistency in both retrospective and incoming prospective data
• Pipeline Development: write reproducible ETL/QC scripts (primarily in R + tidyverse, Bash, optional Python/SQL) that schedule on Minvera and produce versioned, documented outputs
• Regulatory Compliance: implement de-identification rule and auditing procedures that satisfy HIPAA (US) and GDPR (EU/UK) requirements; collaborate with the IRB and Privacy Office
• Documentation & SOP's: draft standard operating procedures, data handling manuals and QC dashboards for consortium sites
• Collaboration & Support: serve as the data liaison to transplant surgeons; research coordinators, and biostatisticians; provide occasional data access troubleshooting but no primary analytic duties

• Bachelors Degree in related fields such as Data Science, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Epidemiology, Informatics, etc.  Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 3 years of professional data management/quality assurance/experience, data cleaning, or clinical research informatics 
• Proficiency in R (tidyverse) and Bash scripting within Linux/Unix environments
• Demonstrated experience writing reproducible ETL or QC code for large, heterogenous datasets
• Familiarity with privacy regulations governing health data (HIPAA, GDPR) and best practices for de-identification and secure transfer
• Excellent written documentation skills and the ability to communicate data issues clearly to both technical and clinical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in biostatistics, biomedical informatics or related discipline
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python/Pandas, and version control (git)
• Prior experience harmonizing multi site clinical datasets or REDCap/EMR exports
• Exposure to Great Expectations, dbt, or similar data validation frameworks
• Background in transplantation, critical care or physiological data is a plus

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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