Public Health Analyst / PowerBI Dashboard Developer

Job Description:Metas Solutions has an "immediate opening" for an experienced Public Health Analyst / PowerBI Dashboard Developer to work remote. In this role you will provide public health programmatic, epidemiological, and scientific data analytics and visualization support to the CDC Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST). Specific data analytics and visualization skill requirements include experience with healthcare/public health data and analysis across very large cloud-based datasets using Microsoft PowerBI as the analytics and visualization tool for creation of complex dashboards. Primary activities include data preparation and dashboard and visualization creation, standard operating procedure recommendations relating to routine development and maintenance of dashboards, and support to clients including epidemiologists and data scientists. The Inform and Disseminate Scientific, Analytics and Visualization Team provides high-level public health expertise on all phases of statistical models and interpretation of analysis and studies on big data sets of surveillance and purchased clinical data for performing data analysis. Your role is as a public health data analyst/ visualization Power BI dash boarder is to work closely with your client to analyze and prepare complex dashboards against public health datasets including pharmacy, hospital, and healthcare claims data. You will provide technical consultation with program staff to develop the dashboards using pre-established templates and dashboard standards and interpret and visualize findings from the specified studies. You may also co-author papers for publications in peer-review journals and reports, and present to the scientific community at professional meetings and conferences. Responsibilities:

• Maintain requisite knowledge for managing and analyzing large data sets using Python, SQL, or R (preferably Python). Provide ongoing knowledge transfer to OPHDST staff for SME supported new analytics tools and/or analytic software languages.
• Support CDC clearance process for scientific products as needed. MPH with expertise in epidemiology or data analytics preferred.
• Conduct exploratory or study-specific analyses and interpret findings from previously collected data based on pharmacy, hospital, viruses/diseases, and healthcare claims.
• Analyze and prepare complex studies that require a sophisticated methodology or advanced computer skills.
• Examine reports and articles prepared by others as part of the peer-review process.
• Provide technical consultation with program staff to develop study questions and designs, conduct analyses, and interpret findings based on pharmacy, hospital, and healthcare claims data.
• Co-author papers for publications in peer-review journals and reports, and present to the scientific community at professional meetings and conferences.
• Verify results and validate with other known information
• Develop data analysis findings and materials and summarize and visualize results (for example, develop graphs for dashboards showing data metrics) using tools such as PowerBI.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Master of Public Health with focus on Epidemiology and Data Analytics and 2+ years of supporting federal government in support roles required OR
• Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) in Information Systems, Computer Science and/or related program with 5+ years relevant experience and Microsoft certification(s) including PowerBI.
• Experience with data wrangling tools and conducting data analysis on big data sets, data lakes in the cloud.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure required.
• Experience with Databricks (preferred).
• Experience with Public Health data analysis and with Big Data analysis programming techniques and technologies in a public health environment.
• Possession of excellent analytical, data gathering, and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge with use of data visualization and dashboarding tools with PowerBI (required).
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent on-going activities.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  

Security, Salary, and Benefits:

• Must be US Citizen or with the ability to obtain a US Government security clearance (Public Trust 5) within a reasonable period.
• Market competitive salary, commensurate with experience and education.
• Comprehensive benefits package available, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401K with company match, growth, and promotion opportunities.
  
  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled