Job Profile:
IT Data Infrastructure Analyst 4
Job Family:
IT Data Infrastructure
Time Type:
Full time
Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Job Profile Summary:
Owns complex issues and transforms them into scalable solutions and work products; plans and leads the design, building and maintenance of platforms and enterprise solutions across IT systems.
Job Description:
Position Salary Range: $85,700 - $95,000 per year; DOE
The Research Data Manager supports ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise through the design, implementation, coordination, and stewardship of research data management activities for research projects, initiatives, and operational activities. Working with investigators, research teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners, the position helps to ensure that research data are managed as reliable, secure, accessible, and reusable research assets throughout the research data lifecycle. Additionally, the role promotes consistent data management practices, upholds institutional standards, and supports compliance with sponsor requirements, data sharing expectations, and applicable regulatory frameworks.
The Research Data Manager develops, implements, maintains, and improves research data systems, workflows, standards, and documentation that support complex and multidisciplinary research initiatives. This includes coordinating data collection and integration across and within research teams; establishing metadata standards, data dictionaries, file organization guidelines, and documentation practices; and supporting relational databases and data intake pipelines. The role executes data quality, validation, transformation, and quality assurance processes while implementing data management and sharing plans (DMSPs) to promote scientific reproducibility, data stewardship, interoperability, and responsible research data management.
Essential Duties:
Integrate multi-domain, large-scale datasets from free-ranging nonhuman primates, including single-cell and bulk-tissue multi-omic data, immune phenotyping, social-network phenotypes, longitudinal physiological measures, survival, and reproductive outcomes
Assist with the development and refinement of data intake pipelines to incorporate complex incoming datasets
Administer, maintain, and assist in the continued development of PostgreSQL-based relational databases
Connect laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and downstream sample tracking to the central biorepository database
Perform data transformations, data wrangling, and SQL queries to bridge the gap between analytical tools and the database architecture
Support the maintenance, operation, and administration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in collaboration with other data managers and data scientists
Collaborate on the development of the data discovery and data sharing portal, managing curated metadata releases and compiling relational database content for usability by the internal research group
Serve as the primary point of contact for data sharing across project cores, sub-projects, and collaborative research team
Implement rigorous data validation, auditing, standardization, and quality assurance procedures to maintain dataset integrity
Monitor the operational health of supported data systems and participate in cross-functional technical meetings and project coordination activities
Desired Qualifications:
Master’s degree plus three or more years of relevant professional experience OR a PhD in the following fields: computational biology, bioinformatics, genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology, quantitative biology, anthropology, aging biology, or a closely related quantitative life sciences or data…