Public Health Data Scientist

DRT Strategies, Inc.Atlanta, GA

$39 - $52 / hour

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Overview

Schedule

Full-time

Career level

Senior-level

Remote

On-site

Compensation

$39-$52/hour

Job Description

OverviewDRT 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, and financial 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.

Required Experience:

Must have or be able to obtain a Public Trust with the US federal government
Experience in data related roles

Preferred Experience:

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

Education & Training:

Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Public Health, or related field

Work Authorization, Clearance Requirement, & Additional Information:

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.

Salary Range:

$39/hour - $52/hour
Salary commensurate with experience.

DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT) follows the guidelines outlined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to provide all employees and qualified applicants employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.

Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities will be provided. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources by emailing HR@drtstrategies.com, or by dialing 571-482-2517.

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