Data Integration Specialist

At Caris, we understand that cancer is an ugly word—a word no one wants to hear, but one that connects us all. That’s why we’re not just transforming cancer care—we’re changing lives.

We introduced precision medicine to the world and built an industry around the idea that every patient deserves answers as unique as their DNA. Backed by cutting-edge molecular science and AI, we ask ourselves every day:   “What would I do if this patient were my mom?”   That question drives everything we do.

But our mission doesn’t stop with cancer. We're pushing the frontiers of medicine and leading a revolution in healthcare—driven by innovation, compassion, and purpose.

Join us in our mission to improve the human condition across multiple diseases. If you're passionate about meaningful work and want to be part of something bigger than yourself, Caris is where your impact begins.

Position Summary

The Data Integration Specialist is responsible for applying IT best practices for the technical implementation and project methodology for Caris' comprehensive data exchange initiatives.  This role will work with real world evidence data deployments.

Job Responsibilities

- Bridge the gap between business and technology by leading technical requirements gatherings and establishing approaches for each unique project.  The applicant will need to be able to clearly communicate technical processes to non-technical business leaders and communicate non-technical business requirements to technical process owners.
- The applicant will need to gather large amounts of data and organize it in way that the data can be ingested into Client systems.
- Contribute to design and development of data exchange infrastructure.  The applicant will need to understand business requirements and create a plan of how to accomplish those requirements using technology.
- Analyze those business requirements and install, configure, test and place into production integrations with Clients documenting all steps along the way.
- Adheres to documented departmental and corporate standards.
- Assists as needed to perform other related duties and special projects as required.
- Accepts other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in related field required.
- 2 years of experience in extract transform and load (ETL) programming.
- 2 years of experience working with relational databases
- Working experience with relational databases including Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
- Working experience in Healthcare integrations with emphasis on HL7, XML, and JSON feeds using Mirth or other Integration application.
- Working experience with interface connectivity protocols, such as, VPNs, sFTP, API, HTTPS.
- Working experience with AWS S3 to deploy data to external partners.
- Tokenization of data for external partner collaboration.
- Candidates must have a strong background, advanced knowledge and working experience in IT technologies, security architecture and system life-cycle phases are recommended.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.

Preferred Qualifications

- Familiarity with Data Warehousing concepts and architectures
- Familiarity with Transport protocols and applications.
- Ability to work independently solving application software problems.
- Experience with establishing external access and extract transform and load (ETL) strategies with multiple types of data sources, particularly a variety of electronic medical record systems.
- Ability to assemble and query complex data from databases, perform in depth analysis and decipher computational data.
- Strong leadership, teaming/interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills. These personal skills include honesty and integrity, inspire others, commitment and passion, good communication, decision making capabilities, accountability, delegation and empowerment, creativity, and innovation.
- Drive for Results (Service, Quality, and Continuous Improvement) - Ensure procedures and processes are in place that lead to delivery of quality results and continually reassess their effectiveness to achieve continuous improvement.
- Communication - Proficient verbal and written communication skills. Willingness to share and receive information and ideas from all levels of the organization in order to achieve the desired results.
- Teamwork - Commitment to the successful achievement of team and organizational goals through a desire to participate with and help other members of the team.
- Customer Service Focus - Demonstrate a focus on listening to and understanding client/customer needs and then delighting the client/customer by exceeding service and quality expectations.
- Programming and scripting skills with Javascript, Java, and/or Python.

Physical Demands

- Will work at computer most of the time.
- Must possess ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time.
- Must possess ability to perform repetitive motion.

Training

- All job specific, safety, and compliance training are assigned based on the job functions associated with this employee.

Other

- This position requires periodic travel and some evenings, weekends and/or holidays.
- Job may require after-hours response to emergency issues.
- Periodically scheduled on-call may require after-hours response for technical emergencies not explicitly related to assigned job responsibilities.
- At times may be required to work weekends/holidays.

Conditions of Employment:   Individual must successfully complete pre-employment process, which includes criminal background check, drug screening, credit check   ( applicable for certain positions ) and reference verification.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Caris Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.