IT - DPH - GIS Analyst - Consultant

GIS Analyst - Consultant

About the Job

• Duration: 12 months contract with a possibility of extension

Client Location: 400 Otarre Pkwy, Cayce SC 29033

• Schedules amongst the team can be coordinated to ensure coverage of operational hours of Monday - Sunday, 7:00 am - 6:00 pm.

• Job ID: 8477

Why is this position open?
This position is an existing position that is essential for the implementation of new GIS infrastructure and the continuation of critical Public Health initiatives.

Scope of the project:
Due to the volume of GIS activities being performed to support the agency, additional staff is needed to assist current staff with backend support of the agency GIS environment and support scripts and GIS REST services.
The team will ensure systems are following industry best practices to ensure strategic initiatives and compliance with federal and state regulatory laws and ensure business continuity. This position will support Public Health initiatives

This position will be a part of the team responsible for maintaining critical agency functions including health facility adequacy analysis and geographic information services during emergency response operations as well as utilizing GIS solutions and day-to-day operations.
Candidates should be self-motivated, team-oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to priority tasks as needed.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
This position will focus on Public Health initiatives including (but not limited to), Cancer Registry, immunizations, maintaining enterprise architecture, geospatial analysis, infectious disease surveillance and application development. This will include providing support, analysis, testing, problem resolution, reporting, and monitoring of GIS environment and services associated with sensitive data that are restricted and confidential. The candidate will work in a team environment with other GIS and Information Technology staff and Program Area to provide support of GIS solutions and users. The GIS candidate will work in the ESRI software platform and other tools to support agency GIS backend interoperability, REST services, Web API service, python scripts, and online web mapping solutions.

Specific duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• When modeling restricted and confidential health data sets ensure deidentification principles are applied when performing analysis along with following security policies and procedures.

• Performs complex analysis, design, testing, documentation, and implementation of GIS applications and upgrades.

• Develop and maintain python scripts supporting GIS interoperability capabilities

• Ability to manipulate spatial data, and other common GIS formats

• Develop and maintain spatial queries

• Assist with supporting public health and related spatial data layers

• Perform spatial analysis utilizing Spatial Analyst, Insights, Network, and Business Analyst to meet Public Health requests

• Create complex cartographic products

• Develop and maintain GIS rest services for Public Health data

• Support applications in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Portal

• Work with Information Technology staff to learn system technical functionality and IT Security Standards and practices.

• Provide system user support with a focus on public health requests

• Assist staff in resolving system-related problems

• Assist with System user account permissions and security

• Create and maintain supporting system and training documentation.

• Coordinate and assist with system testing and production validation

The candidate will work with the Assigned Section Manager to identify, prioritize, and schedule workload and implementation to IT standards and procedures. The candidate will work with customer and subject matter experts for the system design and testing.

This will also include compliance to client security policy/procedures as well as integrating systems when possible to streamline staff workflows, user security, and data correction.

Module support of the project.

• Client will require that selected personnel sign our client confidentially agreement and/or Business Associate (BA) agreement if applicable. All web services must be secure.

• Our client will not accept any offers including an "up-lift charge. The rate paid per consultant must not exceed the maximum rate established for this position described in the State contract terms.

• Contractors must be online and available during each week throughout the term of the contract.

• Follow agency IT Standards, policies, and procedures to include documentation.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance ):

1. 3-5 years Experienced Data analyst with extensive experience preforming public health data modeling, data mapping, data cleansing

2. 3-5 years Experience with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online

3. Web services (Rest, SOAP).

4. 3-5 Years GIS Infrastructure Administration and Monitoring

5. SQL Server.

6. GIS mapping.

7. Solid background in data integration, staging, quality and distribution

8. Knowledge of Information Technology Field, best practices, organization, and operations.

9. Candidates should be self-motivated, team-oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to priority tasks as needed.

10. Candidates must also be able to form productive working relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds and at all organizational levels.

Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):
1. Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
2. Experience using an administering Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS).
4. Arcgis Notebooks.
5. Ticketing system.
6. Experience with industry standard information security practices
7. Experience with security and data classification related to CDC, HIPPA, and PHI/PII data

About our Company
DataSoft Technologies is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. Founded in 1994, DataSoft Technologies, Inc. provides staff augmentation services for Information Technology and Automotive Services. Our team member benefits include:

• Paid Holidays/Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Medical/Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Short Term/Long Term Disability

• Life Insurance

• 401 (K)