Closing date for applications: 08/07/2022
Role Summary
The Data Analyst role is based within the ICT & Business Services (ICTBS) department reporting to the Application Development Manager. Responsibilities of the Data Analyst are broad ranging and focused on supporting the delivery of the organisation’s strategic agenda, service plan and digital transformation strategy.
From a data perspective, the strategic objective of the organisation is to progressively enhance the quality of data, consolidate common and related data sets, and integrate with external data sets held by other European regulatory bodies including the European Medicines Agency. The HPRA intends to enhance its analytical capabilities in order to extract insight from available data sets, provide pathways for operational innovation, and improve the ability to proactively conduct regulatory surveillance. Furthermore, the use of advanced predictive technologies will be evaluated and piloted.
The HPRA has a broad regulatory remit and operates a wide variety of systems and databases to manage everything from medical devices to clinical trials, human and veterinary medicines, blood, human tissues, organs for transplantation, as well as more conventional systems for finance and HR. As such, the role requires that the candidate work pro-actively to understand data and data models across the HPRA systems landscape. This role requires strong analytical, technical, and people skills, as well as excellent problem solving.
Key responsibilities:
Strategic Objectives
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Develop a comprehensive understanding of complex data and data models related to health products regulation, including pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and the companies who manufacture and distribute them.
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Support improvements in the organisation’s data quality. Analysing and assessing data quality across repositories and contributing to the design and implementation of strategies to improve data quality across the organisation.
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Research emerging data standards such as ISO’s IDMP (Identification of Medicinal Products) data standards for medicines and performing gap analysis between those standards and HPRA systems.
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Identify relevant external sources of data and determine their utility in supporting the organisation’s activities. Contribute to the development of use cases for synthesising multisource data inputs, both quantitative and qualitative, to enhance signal detection, surveillance and risk management capabilities.
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Contribute to the migration of legacy application data to a consolidated platform, including developing approaches for data quality assessment, improvement, and mapping.
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Contribute to projects designed to enhance interoperability and data exchange with external organisations. Contribute to designing and implementing systems for exchanging HPRA systems data with external stakeholder systems via technical interfaces.
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Support efforts to enhance the classification of the organisation’s data and assessment of locations where data can be stored. Contribute to the definition of parameters for classification and storage of data. Establish a pathway for the ongoing improvement in the organisation, classification, accessibility and security of data.
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Contribute to the development of the organisation’s understanding and evaluation of advanced predictive technologies and the benefits they may offer.
For more information please refer to the role profile below. Applications (Application form and CV) should be sent directly to our recruitment inbox jobs@hpra.ie
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