Clinical Data Specialist

Summary

Join Flatiron Health as a Clinical Data Specialist and contribute to improving cancer care globally. You will work with clinical and product teams to develop and enhance end-to-end abstraction processes, ensuring high-quality data for patients and researchers. Responsibilities include developing data curation documents and capture forms, supporting data quality control, planning feasibility tests for new data points, contributing to product development, and collaborating with a cross-functional team. You will weigh tradeoffs, communicate recommendations, and provide clinical expertise for data processing and harmonization. This role requires a strong background in oncology/hematology and excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will have relevant certifications or a degree in health sciences and fluency in German and English.

Requirements

• You are certified as a study nurse, clinical research associate (CRA), clinical trial manager, or comparable professional education, or you have a bachelor's or master's degree in the fields of health sciences, biology, molecular medicine, or a related applied science, or you have education as a nurse with additional training or several years of clinical work in oncology/haematology
• You are familiar with all aspects of how cancer is managed, from diagnosis until cessation of treatment, and fluent in cancer terminology as well as in general German medical terminology
• You have experience with the presentation of clinical data (e.g. ICD codes, cancer registry data) and the treatment pathways in oncology care
• You have familiarity with electronic health record systems, electronic data capture forms, or other data management systems
• You have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate clinical issues effectively with a diverse team of software engineers, product managers, and other technical staff
• You demonstrate exceptional attention to detail but you are also pragmatic in the search for solutions
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, cross functional and international environment and are able to react with flexibility to ambiguity
• You are fluent in German (C-level) and have very good English proficiencies (minimum requirement B2-level)

Responsibilities

• Develop and update data curation instruction documents as well as data capture forms for multiple solid tumour types and hematologic malignancies, respectively, and their diagnostic and therapeutic areas
• Support data quality and control activities, including maintenance and improvement of existing QA processes, clarifying guidance, correcting errors and refining abstraction instructions in order to build up and maintain high quality data sets
• Plan feasibility and initial testing of novel data points or new abstraction approaches
• Contribute to product development by synthesizing data and feedback to provide insights about the abstraction process (e.g., to support development of our abstraction tool and leverage machine learning and automatisation)
• Support quality assurance on dataset deliverables and data analyses
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team including technical (e.g., software engineering, data science), product managers, product designers, data privacy experts, quantitative scientists, and clinical professionals. By presenting your work processes and results, you keep your direct and extended team up to date with your work progress
• Weigh tradeoffs (e.g., upside/downside for different options) and clearly communicate data-driven recommendations to influence cross-functional stakeholders
• Provide clinical experience to support the processing and harmonisation of structured data points

Preferred Qualifications

You have experience in enabling ML tooling