Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The ACI Group, Inc. is a Baltimore-based staffing firm committed to hiring leading professionals and offering exciting career opportunities. They are seeking a Sr. Data Analytics Developer/Sr. Data Engineer to support a CMS-focused healthcare analytics program, responsible for leading the development of scalable data pipelines and ensuring data quality throughout the processing stages.
Responsibilities
- Leading the development of scalable data pipelines and analysis systems involving large secondary data sources such as Medicare and Medicaid administrative claims data and survey data to effectively answer research questions about health care policy
- Providing creative and best practice solutions for data processing optimization, commonly on cloud computing platforms
- Ensuring data quality through all stages of data processing with rigorous quality control
- Iteratively informing requirements and specifications, which will include articulating findings and working with researchers to adjust specifications and code as interim results are found
- Mentoring junior developers to follow technical standards and best practices, and may lead small teams of 2-3 developers
Skills
- Bachelor's degree with a strong academic record in computer science, economics, applied mathematics, statistics, public health, public administration, public policy, sociology, political science, or a related field; Master's degree preferred
- 5+ years of in-depth programming experience in a professional and/or academic environment
- Programming expertise using Python, SQL, SAS, R, Stata, or a similar data engineering or statistical language
- Strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to build consensus
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to explain technical concepts and/or engineering approaches to a non-technical audience
- Has the ability to pass a background investigation or security clearance for federally contracted project work
- Experience performing data pipelining or analytics using cloud computing platforms and services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and/or Databricks is strongly preferred
- Experience processing and analyzing health care claims is preferred
- Subject-matter knowledge in healthcare data preferred
- Holding an active Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Enterprise User Administration (EUA) ID is desired
Benefits
- $1000 Referral Bonus - www.aci.com.
- We have access to varied types of contract, permanent and contract-to-perm positions and offer a choice of employment options including a full benefits package.
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