Senior Data Management and Analytics Specialist (52953)

Position Objective: This Senior Data Management and Analytics Specialist to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Public Health Data Surveillance and Technology (OPHDST). This cross-functional position will support the Actionable Data Branch (ADB) across Science and Data Analysis and Data Management with particular emphasis on Foundational Data and One CDC Data Platform (1CDP).

The Specialist will help ensure that high-value healthcare population community demographic geographic/geospatial social environmental and other foundational data are well-managed analytically ready documented discoverable and effectively used across CDC. The position bridges data stewardship and management with scientific and analytic use working with CDC scientists analysts engineers program staff and other stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide senior data management and analytic support for Foundational Data/1CDP and other CDC Data Hub data assets.

Support management and stewardship of population and community data including demographic Census geographic/geospatial social environmental and other foundational data assets.

Support healthcare and other complex data assets used for CDC scientific surveillance research and analytic activities.

Assess data structure quality completeness limitations fitness for use and analytical readiness and advise CDC users on appropriate use and interpretation.

Support the full data lifecycle including ingestion validation quality control release/version management documentation dissemination maintenance and archival.

Develop and maintain data extracts transformations reusable analytic assets standardized core tables reference data and other foundational components supporting shared CDC use cases.

Support development maintenance and documentation of 1CDP ontology objects data products bundles metadata and Marketplace resources including interoperability and appropriate version management.

Conduct data analysis validation and quality-control activities using Databricks Python R SQL SAS Spark or other CDC-approved tools.

Collaborate with CDC scientists and analysts on data preparation exploratory analyses analytic implementation validation and interpretation.

Develop and maintain reusable code QC scripts technical documentation data dictionaries metadata SOPs and data management documentation.

Collaborate with engineering teams to address data pipeline transformation dependency and production-readiness issues.

Serve as a liaison among CDC program staff scientists analysts engineers and other stakeholders to translate scientific and program needs into usable well-managed data resources.

Provide technical assistance demonstrations and knowledge sharing to help CDC users understand and effectively use Foundational Data analytic tools platforms and workflows.

Promote reproducible standardized and reusable approaches to data management and analytics across ADB.

Basic Qualifications:

MPH in Epidemiology or a closely related field.

5 years of progressively responsible experience relevant professional experience supporting data management public health analytics epidemiology health data science or related work.

Experience with 1CDP/Palantir Foundry Databricks Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud-based data and analytics platforms.

Demonstrated experience managing and analyzing large complex public health healthcare population or community datasets.

Experience with Python SQL R SAS or comparable analytical/programming tools.

Experience performing data quality assessment validation transformation documentation and analytic preparation.

Experience translating scientific or programmatic requirements into data management and analytic solutions.

Knowledge of data stewardship governance metadata lineage versioning data quality and reproducible analytical practices.

Ability to obtain and maintain the required Federal Public Trust.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience supporting CDC HHS or another Federal public health organization.

Experience managing or analyzing Census demographic geospatial social determinants of health environmental population or other foundational datasets.

Experience with large healthcare datasets such as EHR claims laboratory pharmacy hospital or other licensed healthcare data.

Experience developing reusable data products standardized data assets ontology objects or data marketplace resources.

Experience supporting scientific studies analytic products reports presentations or publications.

Familiarity with interoperability common data structures healthcare terminology or public health data standards.

Ability to work across scientific analytic data management and technical teams and communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Strong analytical organizational documentation and problem-solving skills.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

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