DRT Strategies is hiring a
Public Health Data Technologist in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Public Health Technologist at DRT Strategies, a consulting firm that provides management and IT solutions to various industries. The role involves working on public health surveillance initiatives, designing solutions for infectious and chronic disease cases, and collaborating with teams.

Requirements

• Must have or be able to obtain a Public Trust with the US federal government
• Experience supporting public health surveillance efforts, and/or utilizing electronic clinical and lab data to conduct surveillance efforts with public health agencies
• Advanced understanding of public health data sources and analyses
• Knowledge of public health data and related privacy requirements (HIPAA, PII, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Prepares and maintains multiple datasets for use with public health surveillance initiatives
• Participates in requirement gathering exercises and provides recommendations on solutions
• Researches tools, systems, and techniques related to public health surveillance requirements
• Recommends and implements improvements to technical solutions
• Creates, modifies, and maintains software capabilities that extract insight from data
• Works with analysts, subject matter experts, and data scientists to determine and implement data structures
• Follows the government’s software development lifecycle framework and provides agreed upon project documentation
• Completes tasks on time with minimal supervision but supports collaboration across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience with HHS data to include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) environment and standards: SDLC, technical architecture, release processes
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies