CDC Foundation is hiring a
Business Analyst

Summary

Join the CDC Foundation as a remote Business Analyst to support the development and delivery of technical projects improving public health data usage for decision making. This role is part of the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI) and is a grant-funded, limited-term opportunity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field or commensurate work experience required
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience as a business analyst, project, or implementation manager
• Proven experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to translate user and technical requirements
• Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, principles, and processes
• Proficiency with using data to make decisions and gathering data insights to improve outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external partners
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems
• Excellent communication skills to articulate problems and resolve solutions with technical and non-technical teams
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills, enabling the development of productive working relationships with colleagues and partners
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Interview staff members to gather information on health-related data, processes, and urgent needs
• Create logical models and data dictionaries for each data set collected or created
• Develop metadata records and process flowcharts
• Identify major pain points with data quality and processes, providing a baseline of hours per week/month spent on each issue
• Analyze and prepare findings for the team, focusing on areas needing immediate attention, quality improvements, standardization efforts, process automation, and pain relief
• Collaborate with data architects to design the enterprise data model, transformations, and views for target data
• Work with security analysts to design role-based access controls
• Partner with developers, internal business analysts, and the data team to devise and prioritize process automation strategies and measures for the best return on investment
• Develop a mitigation plan addressing the most urgent data quality and literacy discoveries
• Create a roadmap to implement targeted data collection standards
• Present the collected knowledge to staff for strategic planning

Benefits

• Salary Range: $76,500-$108,650 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate
• Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity
• Position End Date: June 30, 2025
• Location: Remote, must be based in the United States