Mass General Brigham is hiring: Clinical Data Analyst in Boston

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Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care.

The NeuroAI Center at Mass General Brigham is seeking a hands-on Clinical Data Analyst to query, assemble, and deliver high-quality clinical datasets that power research at the intersection of neuroscience, critical care, and computational modeling. You will work primarily with Snowflake (enterprise data warehouse) and Epic Clarity to extract EHR data and build reliable, well-documented data assets for downstream analytics and modeling.

Key Responsibilities

• Query and extract clinical data from Epic Clarity and enterprise data warehouses (primarily Snowflake) to support approved research projects.
• Translate clinical questions into precise data requirements and SQL logic; design reusable views, UDFs, and stored procedures.
• Build and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines (e.g., Airflow or equivalent) to create curated data marts (encounters, diagnoses, procedures, labs, meds, orders, vitals, EEG/telemetry linkages, imaging metadata).
• Perform rigorous QA/validation, reconciliation, and documentation of data lineage and definitions.
• Optimize SQL for performance and cost (e.g., Snowflake warehouses, clustering, time travel, tasks/streams).
• Collaborate with clinicians, research staff, and data scientists to ensure datasets are complete, accurate, and analysis-ready.
• Handle PHI responsibly; comply with IRB, HIPAA, and institutional data governance.
• Create basic exploratory summaries and dashboards (Tableau/Power BI or Python/pandas) to verify data quality and usability.

Preferred Skills (Not Required, But a Plus)

• Familiarity with HIPAA/IRB processes and secure handling of PHI.
• Working knowledge of the Epic Clarity data model (patient/encounter, diagnoses, procedures, orders, labs, medications, etc.).
• Experience with cloud data platforms - Azure strongly preferred (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Azure SQL, ADLS Gen2, Key Vault; AWS/GCP a plus).
• Knowledge of clinical terminologies (ICD-10, RxNorm) and cohort/phenotype definitions.
• Knowledge of clinical NLP.
• Minimum 1-year experience working with clinical/EHR data.
• Familiarity with de-identification workflows and privacy-preserving analytics.

Summary

Responsible for extracting knowledge, trends, and insights from data in order to investigate business/operational problems through a range of data preparation, modeling, analysis, and/or visualization techniques.

Essential Functions

• Writes and runs basic queries as needed.
• Assists in maintaining existing reporting systems.
• Contributes to presentations to key stakeholders.
• Works with senior analysts to design, maintain and distribute reports.
• Learn leading practice analysis methodologies.
• Compare results to forecast and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Perform continual analysis of current performance and be able to forecast data trends.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree Analytics required or Bachelor's Degree Related Field of Study required

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree? Yes

Licenses and Credentials

Experience

Data Analysis Experience 0-1 year preferred

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Building proficiency in statistics, data analysis, and data sets.
• Proficient time management and project management skills.
• Ability to exercise sound judgments to make decisions within scope of job responsibilities.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in word processing, spreadsheet, and database PC applications.
• Solid quantitative, analytical and technical aptitude skills.
• Participate in dealing with all levels of employees /management and building proficient relationships with teams and all organizational customers.
• Able to find and define problems, understand business impact, identify solutions and provide recommendations for corrective action.

EEO Statement

The General Hospital Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.