Job description
Rancho Biosciences, a certified Great Place to Work in 2022, is seeking an experienced data curator to join us! This is a full time, remote position and you can work anywhere in the USA or Europe! Your primary focus will be on projects that include life sciences data curation.
We are a Data Science company working with some of the most renowned pharmaceutical companies in the world. Our team of scientists, curators, computational biologists, biostatisticians, and computer scientists are located throughout the country; we support talented people living where they chose, working collaboratively together on projects that have a real impact on human health.
In this role you will:
- Extract relevant scientific information from publications and/or public online resources and data repositories creating reports and data manifests in a required format.
- Curate assay, clinical, clinical trial, and other data/metadata according to various data standards.
- Align data to ontologies/vocabularies.
- Support development of new data standards, data models, terminologies, and ontologies.
- Communicate strategies, ideas, goals, and progress to the team and/or to the customers.
- Review and monitor work and its quality.
- Collaborate frequently with data scientists and data curators.
- Provide presentations that are clearly articulated, engaging and convincing.
Desired Experience/Skills:
- Experience writing scientific articles or reports and presenting results.
- Familiarity with biomedical/biomarker data and/or clinical/clinical trial data.
- Familiarity with data standards, semantics, terminologies, ontologies.
- Understanding of R&D processes and the scientific data lifecycle.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel.
- Knowledge of R, Python, Perl, etc. is a plus.
- Experience with html is a plus, but not required.
- Familiarity with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data guiding principles is a plus.
- Exposure to public biomedical ontologies and standards consortiums (e.g., OBI, NCI, MedDRA, MeSH, LOINC, Uberon, DOID, RxNorm, CDISC, Allotrope, OHDSI, FHIR, or others) is a plus.
- Nonclinical study submission package (SEND, Define.XML, nSDRG) experience is a plus.
Soft Skills:
- Ability to adhere to timelines.
- Detail-oriented and well organized, with an ability to work collaboratively/remotely.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Independently driven, hardworking, and committed.
- Ability to learn new software systems.
- Analytical thinking skills and a good understanding of scientific data.
- High interpersonal skills, ability to meet and interact regularly with Rancho colleagues and various client stakeholders.
- Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team, provide feedback and suggestions to a team.
Education Requirements
- MD or PhD in Biology or related field; or Bachelor's and Master's degree with 3-5 years relevant experience
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