Data Contract Analyst

Job Title: Data Contract Analyst
Location: Maple Grove, MN 55369
Duration: 12months W2 contract with high possibility of extension based on performacne and business needs
Pay Range: $45 to $58.76/hr

Job Description: Hybrid - 2 to 3 days onsite.

***Process - operations role, handling data contracts.

Purpose Statement
We are seeking a contractor to serve as a critical liaison between the Data Privacy, Legal, Clinical, and R&D teams. This role is focused on advancing the organizations efforts to develop and operationalize processes to securely collect, transfer, and utilize medical data from hospitals for advancing innovation. The candidate will coordinate updates to agreement templates, facilitate privacy impact assessments, improve data transfer processes, define clinical data collection processes, and formalize procedures for medical data intake, ensuring compliance with relevant medical data regulations and supporting machine learning initiatives for new clinical features.

Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with Legal and Privacy in partnership with Clinical and R&D to standardize language in data agreement templates.
Collaborate with the Data Privacy team to conduct global privacy impact assessments related to medical data transfers and ensure compliance with applicable data protection regulations.
Operationalize the use of tools and templates for collecting medical data metadata, optimizing data usability and security for research purposes.
Define processes with the Clinical team for collecting medical data from clinical trials and hospitals for R&D use.
Establish and document procedures for the intake and management of incoming medical data with the Data Engineering team.
Advance initiatives to collect, transfer, and organize medical data to support machine learning model and algorithm development & verification for emerging clinical features.
Coordinate prioritization of data collection needs across leadership stakeholders and SMEs.

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in a relevant field (e.g., Operations, Biomedical Engineering, Health Informatics, or similar) with 4+ years related work experience.
Experience managing and reviewing legal contracts.
2-4 years of experience in change management
2-4 years of experience developing & executing new processes
Foundational knowledge of medical record privacy and security principles and regulations, (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
Demonstrated experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a healthcare, clinical research, or medical device environment.

Preferred Qualifications
Strong organizational, continuous improvement, project management and documentation skills.
Experience working with healthcare data and medical imaging data.
Knowledge of clinical trial operations, data collection systems, and data transfer technologies.
Experience with Lean Six Sigma and Agile frameworks
Working experience with enterprise productivity tools such as Microsoft 365 and Copilot
Foundational knowledge of medical data standards and/or medical device regulations (e.g. FDA, MDR)