Research Informatics Associate

🇺🇸 Remote - North Carolina 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $95K - $125K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ October 7th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a Research Informatics Associate to support clinical, translational, and population health research by building research data resources, databases, and informatics solutions. The associate turns complex clinical data into research-ready assets as part of the NC TraCS Informatics and Data Science team. This role also works with investigators, clinicians, data scientists, and research staff to turn scientific goals into scalable data solutions.

Highlights

Design, develop, and maintain large-scale clinical research databases and informatics resources.
Build data integration, transformation, and harmonization processes that combine data from sources such as multi-site electronic health data and claims data.
Manage multiple informatics projects while developing documentation, technical standards, and reproducible workflows.
Contribute informatics expertise to grant proposals, manuscripts, and presentations.
Ensure adherence to data governance, security, confidentiality, and HIPAA requirements.
Require 3 years of work experience with health care or clinical data in an analytic capacity.
Bring expert-level SQL programming and data modeling skills on systems like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.
Know at least one data model: OMOP, PCORnet, Epic Clarity, Epic Caboodle, or UNC Carolina Data Warehouse.
Work remotely Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, with flexibility inside that window.
Pay a hiring range of $95,000 to $125,000 per year.