Job No. 157327
- Job Title:
- OPS Data Analyst
- Employer:
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University of Florida
- Location:
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Gainesville , FL
- Posting Date:
- 16-Dec-2025
- Description:
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Classification Minimum Requirements:
Master’s degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience.
Job Description:
The Data Analyst will work under the direct supervision of College of Pharmacy, Professor, Dr. Park. Candidate’s primary focus will be in manipulating large healthcare claims data or electronic health records (e.g., data cleaning, creating variables), applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with large health care datasets. Candidate will also assist faculty or students with statistical analysis on ongoing research or new research. Candidate will have experience with statistical or data mining software (e.g., SAS, Stata, R, Python, ) and analyzing data from a range of projects related to medication utilization and health outcomes.
Duties include:
Data Management
Perform database management, statistical analyses and manipulations using SAS, R, Access and visual basic programming
Data mining using state-of-the-art methods such as deep learning
Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
Developing and implementing programs to process and manipulate large datasets
Providing data programming and analytic support on a range of research projects
Preparation of presentations and manuscripts
Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
Statistical Analysis
Supporting study design, analysis plan data collection, and grant application
Write statistical programming code in SAS (preferred), R, or STATA
Conducting and participating in study review and data security and quality monitoring
Preparing study reports with both tabular and graphical data presentations
Supporting educational opportunities to help researchers and students become more effective at study design, data management and study analysis
Laboratory Management
Interpret administrative regulations including HIPAA and policies related to statistical research studies
Recommend new and improved programs to effectively manage studies
Assure laboratory staff are in compliance with HIPAA regulations and other federal confidentiality standards
Expected Salary:
$25-$35/hour commensurate with education and experience.
Employment Benefits include:
Health Insurance: UF participates in state-sponsored benefits programs for individuals, families and domestic partners, and offers voluntary insurance that includes vision, dental, long-term disability and more. OPS employees are eligible for state benefits if your FTE is 0.75 (30 hours per week) or greater.
Retirement Options: The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) Alternative Plan is a mandatory retirement savings plan under Internal Revenue Code section 401(a) with Fidelity Investments and is required for eligible OPS employees. You may also voluntarily participate in other retirement saving plans.
To learn more visit: hr.ufl.edu/benefits
Required Qualifications:
Master’s degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience.
Preferred:
Experience with common data science and statistical toolkits, such as R, Python, MatLab, SAS etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
Experience with working with large healthcare datasets including insurance claims data and electronic health records
Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL
Strong in applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
Problem solving capability
Adaptability
Good written and oral communication skills
Strong teamwork skills
Strong knowledge of data presentation software
Collaborative experience in biomedical and public health research
- Contact information:
- University of Florida
- Gainesville, FL 32611
- United States
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