Data Software Engineer III - Quality and Patient Safety initiative (QPSi)
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Work type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Health Care Administration/Support
Department: 29013100 - MD-QUALITY & PATIENT SAFETY
Classification Title:
Research Software Engineer III
Classification Minimum Requirements:
A Bachelor's Degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and five years of experience; Master's Degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and three years of experience; Doctoral Degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and one year of experience.
Job Description:
ThisData Software Engineerwill be a crucial member of the Quality and Patient Safety initiative (QPSi) at the UF College of Medicine, tasked with developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, engineering novel features to enhance AI models and extend the scope of the clinical data warehouse, and contributing to the integration of machine learning models to enhance healthcare quality. The role involves collaborating with healthcare professionals, faculty, and data science teams to manage healthcare-related data, ensuring secure, efficient, and scalable data solutions.
TheData Software Engineerwill be responsible for designing data architectures, automating workflows, and optimizing databases while ensuring compliance with healthcare data regulations. This position requires a high level of technical proficiency in Python (especially with the Pandas python library), experience with system deployment and administration (e.g., Docker, Ansible), database management (SQL/NoSQL), and an understanding of machine learning operations (MLOps).
About This Role:
Feature Engineering and Data Pipeline Development
Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines to support efficient extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes for large healthcare datasets.
Design software for parallel processing of high-performance computing (HiPerGator) and high-performance data analytics workflows together with data scientists.
Deploy data infrastructure and systems on standard Linux servers and the HiPerGator supercomputer.
Collaborate with data science teams and clinical domain experts to engineer new features from raw data, optimizing for predictive model performance in machine learning applications.
Create and refine data structures that facilitate effective feature extraction, ensuring the availability of high-quality datasets for AI and analytics workflows.
Automate repetitive data processing tasks using Python and other scripting tools to ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability of feature engineering efforts.
Integrate data from multiple sources, ensuring data accuracy and consistency through robust validation and transformation processes.
Data Quality and Management
Create and execute the organization's strategy for improving and maintaining research data quality.
With the Integrated Data Repository (IDR) team, defines and establishes data quality definitions and rules consistent with unit and organizational priorities.
Support a consistent ontology.
Define data quality metrics and establish processes to measure and monitor them continuously.
Manage communications related to data quality, including evaluation and improvement as needed.
Work with IDR team and IT partners to prevent and remediate identified quality issues using both manual and automated solutions.
In accordance with the data governance plan, set priorities and strategies for incorporating new sources of data into the IDR based on demand.
MLOps and Infrastructure Administration
Implement and manage Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) frameworks to facilitate the continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring of AI models in production environments.
Use Ansible for infrastructure automation, managing Linux-based systems and ensuring that deployments are reproducible and environments are consistently configured.
Collaborate with data scientists and UF Health IT to streamline the deployment of machine learning models, creating CI/CD pipelines for model versioning, testing, and deployment.
Set up monitoring and logging systems to track model performance in production, and identifying and troubleshooting any issues that arise post-deployment.
With UF Health IT, develop solutions to ensure high availability and scalability of AI models through proactive system administration and infrastructure monitoring, preventing downtime or performance bottlenecks.
Communicating Knowledge and Results
Using software tools for business intelligence and analytics (e.g. SAP product stack), word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and organizational analyses (e.g. Microsoft Office products), provides reports of analyses to decision makers. Will also be responsible for developing reporting mechanisms via dashboards.
Lead and contribute to developing manuscripts, abstracts and presentations for dissemination through journals, trade publications and at regional and national venues.
Contribute to the QPSi's education mission and its efforts to develop educational resources on AI and data science in the realm of health care that will be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders.
About COM's Quality and Patient Safety Initiative (QPSi):
The UF College of Medicine's Quality and Patient Safety Initiative (QPSi) is dedicated to enhancing patient care quality and safety through innovative research, education, and collaboration. This initiative focuses on implementing evidence-based practices, advancing patient safety initiatives, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the College of Medicine.
QPSi's mission is to drive excellence in healthcare delivery by integrating clinical expertise, data-driven insights, and cutting-edge technology. The initiative engages healthcare professionals, students, and stakeholders in efforts to elevate patient care standards and outcomes.
For more information about the Quality and Patient Safety Initiative, visitUF College of Medicine's QPSi (https://qpsi.med.ufl.edu/) .
We Offer Exceptional Benefits:
Low-cost State Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Life and Disability Insurance
Generous Retirement Optionsto secure your future
Comprehensive Paid Time Off Packages: (includes over 10 paid holidays, as well as paid family, sick and vacation leave)
Exceptional Personal and Professional Development Opportunities: Access to UF Training & Organizational Development programs, leadership development, LinkedIn Learning, and more
Tuition Assistance through the UF Employee Education Program
Public Service Loan Forgiveness(PSLF) Eligible Employer
About Gainesville, Florida:
Home to the University of Florida, one of the nation's top public universities, Gainesville offers vibrant academic and healthcare communities alongside an affordable cost of living, no state income tax, and mild winters. Enjoy the outdoors with over 30 miles of bike trails, freshwater springs, and numerous water activities, plus easy access to beaches and world-class theme parks.
Gainesville combines historic charm with modern amenities, including a great school system, a lively downtown, and a thriving local culture with farmers' markets and craft breweries. Discover professional growth and quality of life in Gainesville-where community, innovation, and work-life balance meet!
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Expected Salary:
$85,000 - $94,000 (annually); commensurate with education and experience.
Required Qualifications:
A Bachelor's Degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and five years of experience; Master's Degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and three years of experience; Doctoral Degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and one year of experience.
Preferred:
The ideal candidate will possess:
Highly proficient in Python coding and data management libraries (Pandas).
Demonstrated experience with database design and reporting tools.
Experience with large-scale distributed computing environments (SLURM, Dask).
Familiarity with systems administration tools and workflows (docker, ansible, CI/CD).
Demonstrated experience with EMRs (such as Epic) and healthcare data.
In-depth knowledge of SQL
Experience with data integration and business intelligence software (SAP product stack)
Knowledge of basic principles of clinical research.
Familiarity with MLOps principles and best practices.
Special Instructions to Applicants:
To be considered, please upload the following documents with your application:
Cover Letter
Resume
Contact information for three professional references
If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call 352-392-2477 or the Florida Relay System at 800-955-8771 (TDD).
Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.
Health Assessment Required:No
Advertised: 28 May 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 11 Jun 2025 Eastern Daylight Time