Public Health Officer, Health Informatics, Data Analytics and Use at Georgetown University Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI)

Job Overview

• The Public Health officer will be part of the team that provides programming support for new and existing information systems based on user specifications with guidance from other staff members.
• Consults with and provides users with assistance in determining program enhancements and required maintenance.

Specific Duties
Roles

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas;
• Following the software development lifecycle.
• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our applications, including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment
• Understand how our applications operate, are structured, and how customers use them
• Provide engineering support when building, deploying, configuring and supporting systems for e-solutions
• Developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Maintains database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters; implementing new releases; completing maintenance requirements; evaluating computer operating systems and hardware products.
• Technology Management
• Investigate, analyze and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Maintains database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters; implementing new releases; completing maintenance

Requirements and Qualifications

• Candidates must have broad IT domain experience in at least one of the following areas IT areas: Applications Development, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Maintenance and Support

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline; or, equivalent demonstrable experience.
• 2 years working experience; demonstrated success developing a variety of software systems while taking on increasing responsibility for analysis, design, implementation and deployment tasks