Study Database Manager - Data Management - Medical Devices
Maple Grove, MN (5 days on-site, can be 1 day remote).
Other locations: Sylmar, California, but this particular opening is assigned to Maple Grove.
An existing position within a team of approximately 7- 8 database professionals. Client is transitioning from its legacy Oracle Clinical platform to Oracle Clinical One and will operate both systems for the foreseeable future.
Required skills and experience
- Strong technical aptitude: Demonstrated ability to understand database design, architecture, data structures, and how clinical trial databases are built.
- Programming experience: Must have a proven ability to code in at least one programming language. JavaScript and JSON are used extensively in Clinical One, but direct experience with those technologies is not mandatory because Client's team is learning them.
- Clinical trial data experience: Must understand the clinical research data environment and have experience working with clinical trial data.
- Database configuration and design: Understanding of electronic case report form (eCRF) structure, standardization, backend mapping, and related database development concepts.
- Technical problem-solving: Ability to learn new platforms, adapt to modern database technologies, and work through technical challenges.
- Preferred candidate backgrounds:
- Clinical database managers with a strong programming background.
- Clinical data managers who want to move toward database development and configuration.
- Data analysts or other technical data professionals with clinical trial experience.
- Candidates with programming experience in languages such as Python, R, or other languages that demonstrate coding ability.
- Important: Candidates do not need to be experts in every technology listed. Jasmine is primarily evaluating technical aptitude, relevant clinical data experience, and the ability to learn.
Oracle Clinical vs. Clinical One
- Understanding Client's technology transition is important when sourcing candidates.
- Legacy: Oracle Clinical (OC)
- Client continues to maintain existing studies in its legacy environment. Experienced Oracle Clinical professionals are increasingly difficult to find, and Jasmine already has substantial legacy expertise on her team.
- New platform: Oracle Clinical One
- New studies are being built in Clinical One, a cloud-based platform with a modern interface and a more contemporary approach to clinical database configuration. Client is working with Oracle to help develop the platform for medical device clinical trials.
- The two platforms will coexist until the legacy studies are completed.
- Recruiting implication: Do not screen candidates out solely because they lack Oracle Clinical experience. Strong database design, programming, and technical skills are more important for this opening.
Prioritize technical ability over legacy platform experience.
- Search for database development, configuration, programming, data architecture, and clinical data experience.
- Broaden the candidate pool.
- Consider technical clinical data managers, database programmers, and data analysts who have worked in clinical research.
- Validate coding capability.
- Ask candidates to explain what they have programmed, the language they used, and how they applied it to data structures or database development.
- Screen for learning agility.
- Candidates who can learn JavaScript, JSON, and Clinical One may be stronger prospects than candidates with only legacy Oracle Clinical knowledge.
- Confirm onsite availability and compensation alignment.
- They are looking for a technically capable clinical database professional who can help Client build and maintain databases in a modern clinical platform.
- Strong programming ability, database fundamentals, and clinical trial data knowledge are the core qualifications.
- Oracle Clinical experience is not a prerequisite, and candidates with the right technical foundation should be considered even if they need to learn Clinical One.