Scientific Data Analyst II (Public Health Data)

Location: Atlanta, Georgia; primarily telework with onsite support at CDC facilities as required. Availability during standard business hours is required, with occasional travel for meetings, conferences, training, or project activities.

Company

hirify.global Enterprise Systems & Solutions supports the CDC with public health surveillance, data management, modernization, analytics, and reporting services.

What you will do

• Support CDC surveillance data management, data quality assurance, reporting, dissemination, and modernization initiatives.
• Assess data and information system needs and recommend analytical, reporting, infrastructure, security, and technology improvements.
• Manage, integrate, analyze, validate, and visualize large and complex scientific, healthcare, surveillance, and population-health datasets.
• Develop and maintain data, cloud-based, dashboard, database, and web-based solutions that improve data access and usability.
• Support data governance, metadata standards, data management plans, stewardship, and Data Modernization Initiative activities.
• Collaborate with data scientists, researchers, CDC programs, external partners, and technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, public health, health informatics, data science, computer science, or a related field.
• At least three years of experience in data analytics, data science, healthcare analytics, public health informatics, or related work.
• Experience using SQL for data extraction, transformation, validation, and management.
• Experience using SAS, Python, and/or R for data analysis and surveillance data processing.
• Experience with public health, healthcare, surveillance, or population-based datasets; data quality assurance; relational databases; and large structured datasets.
• Experience creating dashboards and reports with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools, along with strong analytical, quantitative, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting CDC, HHS, or other federal public health agencies and surveillance programs.
• Experience with healthcare data sources, electronic health records, healthcare claims, HL7, FHIR, OMOP, or common data models.
• Experience with CDC Data Modernization Initiative, CDC One Data Platform, cloud analytics environments, or big data technologies.
• Experience developing data dictionaries, metadata standards, data governance documentation, and data management procedures.

Culture & Benefits

• Robust employee benefits program and opportunities for promotion.
• Management engagement, quality leadership, teamwork, and performance recognition.
• Telework-based environment with virtual collaboration through telephone, email, and online platforms.
• Work supporting public health research, surveillance, and data modernization priorities.