University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. Its academic and research community spans the humanities, sciences, and applied disciplines, with more than $1 billion invested annually in research. The university combines undergraduate and graduate education with community outreach, campus resources, and athletics, guided by the Wisconsin Idea’s focus on public service. Its work also emphasizes diversity, inclusive excellence, and engagement with the wider community.

Research Data Scientist, Data Quality — University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lead data-quality engineering and analysis for UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Health Data Hub. Strengthen clinical and biomedical datasets for research, analytics, and AI applications.

Description

  • Build and operationalize data-quality capabilities for the Wisconsin Health Data Hub
  • Create and maintain scalable quality frameworks for clinical, biomedical, and research datasets
  • Profile data and conduct exploratory analyses to uncover anomalies, missing values, inconsistencies, and other quality concerns
  • Define statistical and computational methods, rules, thresholds, metrics, and validation standards
  • Use data science and machine learning methods for anomaly detection and ongoing quality monitoring
  • Develop automated validation and quality-control workflows, reusable components, scripts, services, and APIs
  • Embed quality checks and monitoring within cloud data pipelines and analytics environments
  • Partner with engineers, data scientists, informaticians, architects, security specialists, researchers, and other stakeholders
  • Advance data standardization, normalization, harmonization, interoperability, provenance, metadata, and documentation
  • Assess dataset readiness and constraints for analysis, modeling, artificial intelligence, and research use
  • Create data-quality governance policies, standards, definitions, procedures, and accountability models
  • Present findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Produce reproducible workflows, reports, dashboards, and data-quality tools
  • Support technology transfer and durable adoption across academic, healthcare, and industry research settings

Requirements

  • At least 3–5 years of professional experience in data science, research data management, data quality, data analytics, or a related technical discipline
  • Advanced programming experience with Python, R, and SQL
  • Hands-on experience creating and applying data-quality processes such as profiling, validation, cleansing, standardization, anomaly detection, and monitoring
  • Experience handling large datasets and processing pipelines spanning multiple structured and/or unstructured sources
  • Ability to automate data-quality rules, metrics, validation frameworks, and monitoring workflows
  • Strong analytical judgment and problem-solving ability
  • Ability to explain complex data-quality findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Current residence in Wisconsin or willingness to relocate within a reasonable timeframe
  • Ongoing authorization to work in the United States without employer sponsorship; university sponsorship, TN visas, and J-1 waivers are unavailable
  • Application must include a cover letter and resume
  • PhD or another terminal degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, Information Systems, or a related technical field is preferred
  • Preferred background includes clinical, healthcare, or research data; healthcare data models and standards; cloud platforms; Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or ADF; EHR data; and reproducible data-science workflows

Benefits

  • Substantial vacation, holiday, and sick leave allowances
  • Competitive insurance coverage and savings-account options
  • Retirement benefits

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