Data QA Analyst

Job Description - Position Title: Data QA Analyst

Location: : Quincy, MA

Duration: 6- 12 month

Interview Process: In-Person Interview*** Local Only from MA, NH or RI and must have recent client experience from these locations***

Job Description:

Minimum Requirements:

Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop, implement, and maintain data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring procedures for state public health datasets

Implement EDP quality checks and validation procedures as informed by Epidemiologists/data stewards

Monitor key data quality dimensions including accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity

Identify, document, track, and support resolution of data quality is

sues affecting the METRIK project and the various Data Assets needed to power public health analytic use-cases

Establish and perform processes to monitor technical integrity of data pipelines

Partner with epidemiologists, program managers, data stewards, and developers to assess the impact of data quality issues on analysis, reporting, and program outcomes

Validate data at various steps in the data ingestion process from staging to curation to making data available to analytics

Support development and maintenance of data dictionaries, metadata, and business rule

Participate in data governance and stewardship activities, including data access controls, data lineage, and standardization efforts

Support system enhancements, onboarding of new data sources, and policy-driven data changes with quality assurance testing

Qualifications:

Effective and good communications skills

Ability to work with teams and independently.

Undergraduate degree in a STEM discipline, Business, Computer Science, Public Health, related field, or equivalent experience

Experience with state or local public health data systems (e.g., disease surveillance, immunization registries, ELR, syndromic surveillance, vital records)

Familiarity with state data standards (e.g., HL7)

Knowledge of HIPAA, state privacy laws, and data use agreements

Familiarity with analytic tools such as R, Python, or SAS; and reporting/visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.

Experience in creating, reviewing and maintaining end-to-end data platform requirements.

Thorough knowledge and experience of data warehouse and a cloud-based Enterprise Data solution.

Cloud database platform experience such as Snowflake.

Familiarity with AWS cloud services

Intermediate or better SQL query skills

Working knowledge with at least one Business Intelligence tool such as Tableau

Public Health experience

Amazon Web Services experience

Snowflake certification

Tableau reporting experience