Data QA Analyst

Job#: 3027098

Job Description:

Apex Systems is a world-class technology services business that incorporates industry insights and experience to deliver solutions that fulfill our clients' digital visions.

Apex has an opportunity for a Data Quality Assurance Analyst. For applicants who are interested in this opportunity, please send your updated resume to Evan Meltsakos, Account Manager, at .

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Here are the details:

Position: Data Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Level: Intermediate

Location: Quincy, Massachusetts (Hybrid - onsite as required)

Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Rate: Negotiable based on experience

The Department of Public Health (DPH) is looking for a highly skilled and experienced candidate to fill the Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst position for Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) Projects. DPH is executing large-scale data modernization across the agency as part of DMI. This includes creating a consolidated Enterprise Data Platform on modern cloud tools (including AWS & Snowflake,) and replatforming existing business data applications from solutions such as SAS and legacy databases to the new platform. DPH data systems enable epidemiologists, public health researchers, state and local public health officials, and business leaders to analyze public health trends and drive policy decisions.

The ideal candidate is an expert in assuring accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and consistency of data used by the State Department of Health to support disease surveillance, population health monitoring, program evaluation, and statutory reporting. This position works collaboratively with epidemiologists, program staff, analytics teams, developers, and external partners to maintain data integrity across state public health information systems and reporting processes.

In this role, you are comfortable speaking to both business and technical stakeholders to ensure combined understanding and collaborative solutions. This role will be expected to own tasks and follow-up related to cloud data platform requirements and implementation activities and establish well documented best practices and processes.

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 issues 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

Preferred experience/skills:

Public Health experience

Amazon Web Services experience

Snowflake certification

Tableau reporting experience

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.