Research Applications Lead

The Research Applications Development and Support Lead at Nemours Children's Health plays a pivotal role in advancing pediatric research by overseeing the development, maintenance, and support of critical research applications. Reporting to the Chief Research Informatics Officer and Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC), this position provides technical leadership for platforms such as REDCap, ensuring their capabilities remain current and secure through timely upgrades, validation, and patches. The Lead also manages related tools, including the Twilio account used for REDCap communications.

The Lead will oversee a small team of web and application developers and application analysts, guiding their work to ensure smooth operations, continual improvement, and high-quality support for investigators and staff. This includes coordinating workloads, setting priorities, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.

A key responsibility is partnering with investigators and administrators to design surveys and forms that meet both research and administrative needs, including compliance tracking, regulatory submissions, and operational oversight. The Lead will also maintain research SharePoint sites that provide documentation, guidance, and intake forms for project requests, ensuring these resources are accurate and accessible.

The role further involves training and educating users to maximize self-service capabilities, consulting on effective project and study design, and reviewing proposed changes to active projects. For complex funded studies, the Lead will design, maintain, and monitor advanced REDCap-based data management systems, including participant surveys, staff entry forms, reporting, notifications, and workflows that support compliance and research excellence.

This position offers an exceptional opportunity to apply technical expertise and leadership to support world-class pediatric research. By enabling Nemours investigators and administrators to fully leverage technology, the Lead will directly contribute to groundbreaking discoveries and improved health outcomes for children.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, informatics, information systems or another quantitative field with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required

• Experience in REDCap administration preferred.

• Previous experience in mentoring biomedical research informatics staff.

• Strong preference will be given to applicants with relevant experience with health-related data management and analyses. Additional consideration will be given to applicants with experience in:

1. Collaboration with research scientists and clinician researchers
2. Requirements gathering
3. Technical communication (writing and oral presentations, documentation of code)