Scientific Data Analyst II (Public Health)

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

Company

Provides professional and enterprise systems services supporting public-sector public health programs, including surveillance data management and analytics for the CDC.

What you will do

• Develop reports, analyses, recommendations, presentations, and briefing materials for public health programs and leadership.
• Design, maintain, and document databases, data structures, data collection instruments, codebooks, data dictionaries, and secure Data Management Plans.
• Perform data ingestion, cleaning, validation, quality assurance, integration, and issue resolution for large surveillance and healthcare datasets.
• Build automated data processing workflows, reproducible scripts, dashboards, reports, and interactive visualizations using approved analytics platforms.
• Administer SharePoint and related collaboration platforms, maintain public-use datasets, and respond to data and reporting inquiries.
• Lead cross-functional projects and workgroups with CDC teams, external partners, and 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 with SAS, Python, and/or R for data analysis and surveillance data processing.
• Experience analyzing public health, healthcare, surveillance, or population-based datasets and developing data quality assurance procedures.
• Experience creating dashboards and reports with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools, plus strong knowledge of relational databases and large structured datasets.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting CDC, HHS, or other federal public health agencies.
• Experience with infectious disease or chronic disease surveillance systems and healthcare data sources.
• Knowledge of HL7, FHIR, OMOP, CDC Data Modernization Initiative efforts, or the CDC One Data Platform.
• Experience with cloud analytics environments, big data technologies, metadata standards, data governance, and data management procedures.

Culture & Benefits

• Robust employee benefits program.
• Management engagement, quality leadership, and a collaborative team environment.
• Recognition for performance and opportunities for promotion.
• Telework-oriented work arrangement with virtual collaboration tools and occasional onsite support.