Data QA Analyst

Title: DATA QA ANALYSTDuration: 12 monthsWork Hours: 37.5hrs/weekLocation: 1 Enterprise Dr, Quincy, MA 02171Position: HybridEnter Job Description...The ideal candidate is an expert in assuring accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and consistency of data used by the State Department of Health to support disease surveillance, population health monitoring, program evaluation, and statutory reporting. This position works collaboratively with epidemiologists, program staff, analytics teams, developers, and external partners to maintain data integrity across state public health information systems and reporting processes.In this role, you are comfortable speaking to both business and technical stakeholders to ensure combined understanding and collaborative solutions. This role will be expected to own tasks and follow-up related to cloud data platform requirements and implementation activities and establish well documented best practices and processes.Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and maintain data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring procedures for state public health datasets
• Implement EDP quality checks and validation procedures as informed by Epidemiologists/data stewards
• Monitor key data quality dimensions including accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity
• Identify, document, track, and support resolution of data quality is
• sues affecting the METRIK project and the various Data Assets needed to power public health analytic use-cases
• Establish and perform processes to monitor technical integrity of data pipelines
• Partner with epidemiologists, program managers, data stewards, and developers to assess the impact of data quality issues on analysis, reporting, and program outcomes
• Validate data at various steps in the data ingestion process from staging to curation to making data available to analytics
• Support development and maintenance of data dictionaries, metadata, and business rule
• Participate in data governance and stewardship activities, including data access controls, data lineage, and standardization efforts
• Support system enhancements, onboarding of new data sources, and policy-driven data changes with quality assurance testing

Qualifications:

• Effective and good communications skills
• Ability to work with teams and independently.
• Undergraduate degree in a STEM discipline, Business, Computer Science, Public Health, related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with state or local public health data systems (e.G., disease surveillance, immunization registries, ELR, syndromic surveillance, vital records)
• Familiarity with state data standards (e.G., HL7)
• Knowledge of HIPAA, state privacy laws, and data use agreements
• Familiarity with analytic tools such as R, Python, or SAS;and reporting/visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience in creating, reviewing and maintaining end-to-end data platform requirements.
• Thorough knowledge and experience of data warehouse and a cloud-based Enterprise Data solution.
• Cloud database platform experience such as Snowflake.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services
• Intermediate or better SQL query skills
• Working knowledge with at least one Business Intelligence tool such as Tableau

Preferred experience/skills:•Public Health experience•Amazon Web Services experience•Snowflake certification•Tableau reporting experienceEEO Employer LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. LanceSoft makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.