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

Job Overview

• The Public Health Specialist is responsible for leading development of big projects working with other software developers.
• Utilizing a Software Development Life Cycle, the Software developer will work with technical and non-technical associated in defining business and technical requirements to develop new functions or redesign/consolidate existing processes.

Specific Duties
Roles:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Develop and routinely update all processes, standard operating procedures and documents for software management for the organization
• Perform In-Process Review including Code Walkthroughs
• Evaluate various solution options
• Create TDD (Technical Design Documents)
• Create, Review & Approve Design & Solutions
• Map Solution from business viewpoint
• Engage with client on requirements and application
• Participate in requirements analysis, design and test plan creations and test result verification
• Advise for production environment set up
• Breaking down large scale projects into manageable chunks
• Oversee the work being done by other software engineers working on the team, coordinating team activities with other teams and product groups, maintaining software architecture standards.
• Consistently defines and applies technologies, standards and software engineering practices, mentoring other team members
• Lead and Direct software engineering resources to ensure timely and quality delivery of services.
• Responsible for mentoring junior talent as well as directing technical staff through technical challenges, tasks and projects.
• Develop key product features within existing large-scale enterprise applications & new strategic initiatives.
• Participate in the full SDLC involving design, implementation, testing, and launching.
• Assist with the generation and analysis of business and functional requirements for proposed software solutions.
• Participate in and sometimes lead architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction.
• Create design specifications, documentation, and unit testing plans as defined by the Agile development process.
• Generate data for project planning, including task breakdown and estimation of work for a project. Tracks status within the project as necessary.
• Delegates tasks to project team members to balance work and increase team cross-training
• Raises long-term architecture issues within project
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application and serve as a technical lead on small to midsize complex projects.
• Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the other component pieces.
• Maintain and support software solutions post-production.
• Implements and debugs some of the more involved/complex functionality.

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline; or, equivalent demonstrable experience.
• More than 5 years systems development experience with successful full life-cycle implementation of a least 2 major projects
• Certification in any Software design and development
• Proficient in .NET development using C#, ASP.NET and other language including mobile device programming.
• Proficient in using MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server