Software Development Analyst III

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

Software Development Analyst III at Tufts Medicine supporting clinical research through data analysis and IT solutions. Involves collaborating with team members and ensuring data-driven decision making.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $84,300 - $107,481 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support clinical and translational research by extracting, transforming, analyzing, and interpreting data from diverse systems.
Collaborate with investigators, project managers, and informatics staff.
Extract and manage data from institutional data warehouses.
Develop, maintain and document high quality reusable queries, and pipelines.
Translate complex research questions into structured data requests and analytic workflows.
Contribute to data governance and quality assurance processes.
Facilitate process improvement initiatives.
Design, develop and implement IT solutions to meet organization needs.
Manage projects/processes, working independently with limited supervision.
Coach and review the work of lower level professionals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, or related field.
Five (5) years of software development experience, including one (1) year of mobile development experience and two (2) years of application programming interface development and integration experience.
Master’s degree in data science, computer science, health informatics, or related field (preferred).
3+ years of experience working with healthcare, biomedical / medical device or clinical research data in a data analyst capacity (preferred).
Proficiency with SQL for querying large relational databases (preferred).
Experience with programming languages for data analysis, such as Python, R, or Julia (preferred).
Experience with version control and workflow tools such as Git/GitHub (preferred).
Strong attention to detail, data validation, and quality assurance skills (preferred).
Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders (preferred).
Active clinical experience preferred.
Experience with LLMs/NLP, to support research data processing, natural language analytics, and workflow automation (preferred).
Experience with Epic Clarity/Caboodle, Databricks, cloud hosted apps and data (preferred).
Familiarity with clinical data, and standards such as FHIR, OMOP, i2b2, and other clinical research data models (preferred).
Familiarity with HIPAA, and human subjects research protections (preferred).
Experience in an academic medical center or CTSI environment (preferred).
Knowledge of clinical research processes and study design (preferred).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k)
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythonRJuliadata analysismobile developmentAPI developmentdata governancedata validationworkflow automation

Soft Skills

attention to detailcommunicationcollaborationcoachingprocess improvementindependent workproject management