Senior Data Engineer

Oura Oura · Consumer · Boston, MA +1 · Science

Senior Clinical Data Engineer responsible for managing the data lifecycle of clinical trials, ensuring data integrity, and compliance with regulations. This role involves building a Clinical Data Repository and working with data engineering tools and clinical data management systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the clinical data lifecycle for a portfolio of studies: ensuring timelines and data integrity are maintained.
  2. Work closely with research project managers, algorithm developers, data engineers, and external vendors to align data management activities with broader trial objectives.
  3. Identify data-related risks and implement mitigation strategies, while driving process improvements and adopting emerging technologies as needed.
  4. Lead data quality management, query analysis, optimization, deduplication, auditing, and validation of regulated data ecosystems.
  5. Develop and oversee the design of Case Report Forms (CRFs) and electronic data capture (EDC) systems to ensure accurate, complete, and protocol-compliant data collection.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of industry experience with clinical data management
  • Fluency with regulations such as ICH GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, and standards such as CDISC (SDTM/ADaM)
  • Proficiency in an industry-standard EDC system (e.g. Medidata Rave, Castor, REDCap)
  • Proficiency in data engineering tools (e.g. AWS S3, Glue, Athena; Databricks; Dagster; dbt)
  • Experience bridging clinical data management and research with enterprise practices and standards

Nice to have

  • Comfort with building dashboards using tools like Tableau or Databricks
  • Flexibility with scheduling to enable calls with global collaborators

What the JD emphasized

  • Fluency with regulations such as ICH GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, and standards such as CDISC (SDTM/ADaM)
  • Experience bridging clinical data management and research with enterprise practices and standards