Public Health Data Scientist
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Atlanta, GA - USA
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Job Summary
DRT Strategies delivers expert management consulting and information technology (IT) solutions to large federal agencies state and local government and commercial clients in health care technology andfinancial services industries.
The three letters of our name DRT stand for Driving Resolution Together which is the core philosophy on which the company was founded. That is we collaborate with our clients to solve their most pressing challenges - together.
We are problem solvers dedicated to your success combining Fortune 500 experience with small business responsiveness. We have established a reputation with our clients as a forward-thinking consulting firm with demonstrated success in implementing solutions that lead to meaningful results. Our world-class consultants unite people to work collaboratively to achieve project goals and make vision a reality.
Project Description:
DRT provides data technology and mission support to its federal public health partners. We collaborate to address diverse complex and emerging problems within the public health domains of environmental health infectious disease chronic disease and emergency preparedness/response. Our support drives the adoption of emerging best practices and technologies to increase the usefulness and value of public health data. Our team develops innovative data capture and analysis techniques in the field to enhance emergency response efforts all around the world.
Job Summary:
The Public Health Data Scientist works directly with public health data analysts coordinators epidemiologists and developers. The Scientist analyses cleans organizes and provides recommendations on public health data for use in public health surveillance systems. Working with technologies like Python SAS R or SQL the Scientist prepares data for visualization and user interaction. They access public health databases data structures and data flows to recommend and perform the import structuring and encoding of public health data. The Scientist supports public health analyses by identifying and implementing the best techniques and solutions to access transform and access data.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement advanced data management systems design or redesign to utilize new technology
- Gathers analyzes and cleanses public health and geospatial data sets
- Applies analytical statistical and programmatic approaches to data
- Develops codes tests and maintains database programs
- Maintains data integrity by working to eliminate redundancy
- Research and enable processing of structured and unstructured data to derive patterns trends and correlations and to enable entity extraction disambiguation common operating picture solutions visualization and other data-related support.
- Implements improvements to data entity extraction entity resolution pattern extraction link analysis human and social-network links/connections cloud online analytical processing data frameworks visualization support and related algorithms.
- Creates modifies and maintains software capabilities that extract insight from data to include information software applications machine learning models automation and other software components.
- Stays informed of the ways the organization uses its data and recommends emerging techniques and technologies to enhance data use.
- 5 years of experience in Public Health Data
- Must have or be able to obtain a Public Trust with the US federal government
- Experience in data related roles
- Recent experience with CDC environment and standards: SDLC technical architecture release processes
- Knowledge of public health data and related privacy requirements (HIPPA PII etc.)
- Experience with cloud-hosted data tools and repositories
- Degree in Data Science Computer Science Public Health or related field
- This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance. Due to contract requirements candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (green card holders) to be eligible.
- No agencies third parties or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
- $39/hour - $52/hour
- Salary commensurate with experience.
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Manager
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