Research Informatics Specialist - London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
Top Benefits
About the role
Posting Period
Open: August 8, 2025
Deadline: August 20, 2025
Non-Union
Job Summary
At London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI), our teams pioneer discoveries that transform the health of adult and paediatric patients around the world. As the research institute of London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), we conduct research where patient care is delivered, working alongside patients, families, health-care providers and academic partners like Western University. We are leaders in advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases and health conditions through a diverse research program that ranges from laboratory-based science to clinical trials. Our research has a global impact as we build on LHSC's 150-year legacy of health innovation and drive forward medical breakthroughs that make a difference in the lives of patients and their families.
As a subject matter expert, the Research Informatics Specialist applies operational insight and critical thinking to meet evolving data needs across research leadership and stakeholders. In collaboration with administrative, research, and ITS teams, the Specialist captures requirements and develops data integration, warehousing, and analytics solutions using platforms like REDCap, while ensuring compliance with Health Canada and FDA standards. Key responsibilities include generating complex reports, ensuring data quality and confidentiality, maintaining detailed documentation, and promoting standardized data practices. The role supports decision-making, strategic planning, and continuous improvement through problem-solving, process optimization, and education to enhance data literacy. Additionally, the Specialist mentors team members, supporting accurate analysis and fostering excellence in research data management.
Regular Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Rate of Pay: $38.15 - $47.69
LHSC is committed to the principles of hybrid work and may offer this option to employees whose work can be performed in an alternate location, without adverse impact to the operations of the Hospital, inclusive of our Staff and Patient experience. Confirmation of hybrid work options available to you will be clarified upon hire and may be subject to change based on the duties required of your position. Successful candidates will be required to perform work within Ontario and must be available to work on location, as required.
Responsibilities:
- Upgrades research applications, provides advanced technical support, develops testing scripts, and validates platform to ensure Health Canada and FDA compliance
- Ensures system maintenance, availability, and reliability for end users
- Conducts business process and workflow reviews, inclusive of gap analysis to support the development of optimized solution options Develops and deploys appropriate engineering solutions; develops projects and processes for data access, sharing, visualization, preservation and re-use
- Designs and develops system prototypes that enhance efficiency and streamline workflows
- Logs, tracks, and facilitates the resolution of system issues and communicates with users to ensure understanding and acceptance of solution
- Ensures understanding of project management principles and software development lifecycle
- Plans, develops, and implements data strategies that align with business and functional requirements including data model designs, database standards, implementation, and management of data warehouse
- Programs data extraction, transformation and visualization from different databases or Application Programming Interfaces (API's)
- Supports research administration departments with their business analytics requirements by defining and managing data flow and dissemination between departments
- Designs and develops reports that present complex data in meaningful formats that enable informed decision-making and operational efficiency
- Ensures on-time delivery of monthly metrics to clients
- Identifies opportunities for expansion and/or modification of existing research data management strategy and its supporting technology to meet new and evolving research data requirements
- Plans and develops technical documents, business and functional requirements, user manuals, standard operating procedures, and training material for research informatics team as well as the research community
- Serves as a subject matter expert, consulting with stakeholders to identify data needs, sources, and deliver tailored solutions.
- Builds strong relationships, lead discussions, and guide clients through solution adoption and workflow changes
- Collaborates with researchers and ITS to assess and optimize technologies and workflows impacting research operations
Teaching, Learning and Research
London Health Sciences Centre is proudly one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching and research hospitals. LHSC has an unwavering commitment to lifelong learning, with education agreements in collaboration with over 55 schools, hospitals, and community agencies from across Ontario, Canada and internationally; among our many education partners, our three regional partners are Western University, Fanshawe College, and Thames Valley District School Board. LHSC provides students with a place that they can learn and discover knowledge and skills to take them forward in their careers as health care professionals. Approximately 2,900 Nursing, Health and other students ranging from secondary school to university graduate level programs receive training at LHSC every year. As an employee of LHSC, you will be expected to engage in role-related teaching, professional development, and research activities in addition to standard position duties and responsibilities.
Qualifications
- University Degree Software Engineering, Information Management, Computer Systems Technology, Statistics required
- Master's Degree preferred
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng) or Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
- Minimum 5 years recent related work experience
- Proficient in identifying business requirements, developing functional requirements, implementing system solutions, developing data integration and data analytics platforms.
- Extensive experience with data integration, analytics and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, SQL).
- Experience in health and research data management, standards, and best practices.
- Experience in software development and quality assurance.
- Expert in working with relational databases (e.g. SQL, MySQL, MariaDB) for process improvement and reporting.
- Programing and scripting experience (e.g. PHP, R, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) to support automation and technical implementations.
- Experience in data management software tools (e.g. REDCap,)
- Experience managing system compliance in regulated environments, ensuring audit readiness.
- Experience in generating technical documents and reports.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Excel (Pivot, filtering, sums, formulas across multiple worksheets), Planner, PowerPoint, Project (WBS, Gantt charts), SharePoint.
- Experience in creating visual diagrams such as Data Flow Diagram (DFD), Data architecture diagrams (ERD), Flowcharts, Use Case diagrams using Visio.
- Experience with products such as GIT, Visual Studio, Linux.
- Detailed content knowledge and proficiency with associated provincial and/or national healthcare standards and best practices, metadata databases, and reporting systems preferred.
- Broad knowledge of clinical research in an academic or hospital environment including protocol requirements, Quality Assurance, and data management best practices preferred.
Has your experience been obtained through alternative pathways? LHSC acknowledges that skills, education and lived experience come in many forms and may have been developed differently from those listed in the job posting. Although LHSC has discretion in determining whether a candidate meets the qualifications and licensing requirements, we welcome applications from those with different experiences who may not meet every requirement listed. Tell us your story and apply today with your resume!
We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and inclusive work environment that inspires respect. LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from equity-denied groups including Indigenous people, racialized people, women, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons. LHSC is also committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive recruitment process. Upon individual request, we will endeavor to remove any barrier to the hiring process to reasonably accommodate candidates, including those with disabilities, while maintaining a fair, consistent and equitable recruitment approach. Should any applicant require accommodation through the application, interview or selection processes, please contact Recruitment Services at 519-685-8500, extension #34321 or recruitment@lhsc.on.ca .
As part of the selection process applicants may be required to complete an examination or test. Please be advised that a reference check may be conducted as part of the selection process.
Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months.
Work/Study Permit
Please be advised, if you are seeking employment on a temporary work or study permit we recommend reviewing work permit restrictions as it applies to healthcare organizations in Canada. As per the Government of Canada, LHSC is considered a hospital/healthcare organization, even if an employee is functioning in a non-patient facing role. Individuals on a work or study permit seeking employment in this sector may be required to complete additional steps in the process, including but not limited to a medical exam, which may also apply to employees looking to renew their work permits. It is the employee's accountability to ensure they are adhering to their specific work permit restrictions, and we encourage all candidates and LHSC employees to be proactive and review restrictions as soon as possible as it could be a lengthy process.
Immunization Requirements:
Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC's Health Review requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements | LHSC.
Research Informatics Specialist - London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
Top Benefits
About the role
Posting Period
Open: August 8, 2025
Deadline: August 20, 2025
Non-Union
Job Summary
At London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI), our teams pioneer discoveries that transform the health of adult and paediatric patients around the world. As the research institute of London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), we conduct research where patient care is delivered, working alongside patients, families, health-care providers and academic partners like Western University. We are leaders in advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases and health conditions through a diverse research program that ranges from laboratory-based science to clinical trials. Our research has a global impact as we build on LHSC's 150-year legacy of health innovation and drive forward medical breakthroughs that make a difference in the lives of patients and their families.
As a subject matter expert, the Research Informatics Specialist applies operational insight and critical thinking to meet evolving data needs across research leadership and stakeholders. In collaboration with administrative, research, and ITS teams, the Specialist captures requirements and develops data integration, warehousing, and analytics solutions using platforms like REDCap, while ensuring compliance with Health Canada and FDA standards. Key responsibilities include generating complex reports, ensuring data quality and confidentiality, maintaining detailed documentation, and promoting standardized data practices. The role supports decision-making, strategic planning, and continuous improvement through problem-solving, process optimization, and education to enhance data literacy. Additionally, the Specialist mentors team members, supporting accurate analysis and fostering excellence in research data management.
Regular Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Rate of Pay: $38.15 - $47.69
LHSC is committed to the principles of hybrid work and may offer this option to employees whose work can be performed in an alternate location, without adverse impact to the operations of the Hospital, inclusive of our Staff and Patient experience. Confirmation of hybrid work options available to you will be clarified upon hire and may be subject to change based on the duties required of your position. Successful candidates will be required to perform work within Ontario and must be available to work on location, as required.
Responsibilities:
- Upgrades research applications, provides advanced technical support, develops testing scripts, and validates platform to ensure Health Canada and FDA compliance
- Ensures system maintenance, availability, and reliability for end users
- Conducts business process and workflow reviews, inclusive of gap analysis to support the development of optimized solution options Develops and deploys appropriate engineering solutions; develops projects and processes for data access, sharing, visualization, preservation and re-use
- Designs and develops system prototypes that enhance efficiency and streamline workflows
- Logs, tracks, and facilitates the resolution of system issues and communicates with users to ensure understanding and acceptance of solution
- Ensures understanding of project management principles and software development lifecycle
- Plans, develops, and implements data strategies that align with business and functional requirements including data model designs, database standards, implementation, and management of data warehouse
- Programs data extraction, transformation and visualization from different databases or Application Programming Interfaces (API's)
- Supports research administration departments with their business analytics requirements by defining and managing data flow and dissemination between departments
- Designs and develops reports that present complex data in meaningful formats that enable informed decision-making and operational efficiency
- Ensures on-time delivery of monthly metrics to clients
- Identifies opportunities for expansion and/or modification of existing research data management strategy and its supporting technology to meet new and evolving research data requirements
- Plans and develops technical documents, business and functional requirements, user manuals, standard operating procedures, and training material for research informatics team as well as the research community
- Serves as a subject matter expert, consulting with stakeholders to identify data needs, sources, and deliver tailored solutions.
- Builds strong relationships, lead discussions, and guide clients through solution adoption and workflow changes
- Collaborates with researchers and ITS to assess and optimize technologies and workflows impacting research operations
Teaching, Learning and Research
London Health Sciences Centre is proudly one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching and research hospitals. LHSC has an unwavering commitment to lifelong learning, with education agreements in collaboration with over 55 schools, hospitals, and community agencies from across Ontario, Canada and internationally; among our many education partners, our three regional partners are Western University, Fanshawe College, and Thames Valley District School Board. LHSC provides students with a place that they can learn and discover knowledge and skills to take them forward in their careers as health care professionals. Approximately 2,900 Nursing, Health and other students ranging from secondary school to university graduate level programs receive training at LHSC every year. As an employee of LHSC, you will be expected to engage in role-related teaching, professional development, and research activities in addition to standard position duties and responsibilities.
Qualifications
- University Degree Software Engineering, Information Management, Computer Systems Technology, Statistics required
- Master's Degree preferred
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng) or Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
- Minimum 5 years recent related work experience
- Proficient in identifying business requirements, developing functional requirements, implementing system solutions, developing data integration and data analytics platforms.
- Extensive experience with data integration, analytics and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, SQL).
- Experience in health and research data management, standards, and best practices.
- Experience in software development and quality assurance.
- Expert in working with relational databases (e.g. SQL, MySQL, MariaDB) for process improvement and reporting.
- Programing and scripting experience (e.g. PHP, R, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) to support automation and technical implementations.
- Experience in data management software tools (e.g. REDCap,)
- Experience managing system compliance in regulated environments, ensuring audit readiness.
- Experience in generating technical documents and reports.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Excel (Pivot, filtering, sums, formulas across multiple worksheets), Planner, PowerPoint, Project (WBS, Gantt charts), SharePoint.
- Experience in creating visual diagrams such as Data Flow Diagram (DFD), Data architecture diagrams (ERD), Flowcharts, Use Case diagrams using Visio.
- Experience with products such as GIT, Visual Studio, Linux.
- Detailed content knowledge and proficiency with associated provincial and/or national healthcare standards and best practices, metadata databases, and reporting systems preferred.
- Broad knowledge of clinical research in an academic or hospital environment including protocol requirements, Quality Assurance, and data management best practices preferred.
Has your experience been obtained through alternative pathways? LHSC acknowledges that skills, education and lived experience come in many forms and may have been developed differently from those listed in the job posting. Although LHSC has discretion in determining whether a candidate meets the qualifications and licensing requirements, we welcome applications from those with different experiences who may not meet every requirement listed. Tell us your story and apply today with your resume!
We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and inclusive work environment that inspires respect. LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from equity-denied groups including Indigenous people, racialized people, women, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons. LHSC is also committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive recruitment process. Upon individual request, we will endeavor to remove any barrier to the hiring process to reasonably accommodate candidates, including those with disabilities, while maintaining a fair, consistent and equitable recruitment approach. Should any applicant require accommodation through the application, interview or selection processes, please contact Recruitment Services at 519-685-8500, extension #34321 or recruitment@lhsc.on.ca .
As part of the selection process applicants may be required to complete an examination or test. Please be advised that a reference check may be conducted as part of the selection process.
Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months.
Work/Study Permit
Please be advised, if you are seeking employment on a temporary work or study permit we recommend reviewing work permit restrictions as it applies to healthcare organizations in Canada. As per the Government of Canada, LHSC is considered a hospital/healthcare organization, even if an employee is functioning in a non-patient facing role. Individuals on a work or study permit seeking employment in this sector may be required to complete additional steps in the process, including but not limited to a medical exam, which may also apply to employees looking to renew their work permits. It is the employee's accountability to ensure they are adhering to their specific work permit restrictions, and we encourage all candidates and LHSC employees to be proactive and review restrictions as soon as possible as it could be a lengthy process.
Immunization Requirements:
Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC's Health Review requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements | LHSC.