Business Analyst - (Contractor) - ID 816030
About The Position
RESPEC is seeking a Business Analyst to support Idaho public health teams by maintaining timely, accurate disease surveillance data moving between laboratories, hospitals, state public health, and the CDC. The role supports and maintains the Rhapsody and .NET applications behind Idaho’s surveillance systems and contributes to planning the modernization of legacy platforms, including recommending tools and technologies for the next generation of state disease surveillance and data infrastructure. The position involves configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Rhapsody interfaces; maintaining HL7 routing, transformations, and mappings; and managing data exchange among external organizations, the Division of Public Health, and the CDC. It also includes troubleshooting the NEDSS Base System (NBS), implementing upgrades and modules such as pages, maintaining NBS Utilities and the ELR data store, supporting .NET applications and Windows environments, and creating PowerShell and SQL scripts and tools. The Business Analyst collaborates with internal teams and external partners, participates in modernization and architecture planning, documents work, and transfers knowledge to client staff. Project time is tracked using 7pace Timetracker.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with the Rhapsody Integration Engine, including interface development, message transformation, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with Integrated Disease Surveillance Systems (IDSS).
- Strong SQL development and troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency in C# and the .NET Framework.
- PowerShell scripting experience for automation and maintenance.
- Windows Server administration experience, familiarity with IIS, and general Windows OS troubleshooting and support.
- Ability to support public health data exchange systems and workflows.
- Experience evaluating and recommending modern technologies for data systems.
- Ability to contribute to architecture and modernization planning.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of NBS/NEDSS systems and workflows.
- Oracle PL/SQL.
- HL7 or FHIR standards.
- Electronic case reporting (eCR) and electronic lab reporting (ELR).
- TFS and Azure DevOps.
- SMTP and SFTP protocols.
- Public health vocabularies and clinical coding systems, including LOINC, SNOMED, and ICD-10-CM.
Responsibilities
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Rhapsody interfaces.
- Maintain and improve HL7 message routing, transformations, and mappings.
- Manage data exchange between external organizations, the Division of Public Health, and the CDC.
- Troubleshoot the NEDSS Base System (NBS), implement upgrades and new modules such as pages, and maintain NBS Utilities and the ELR data store.
- Coordinate directly with partners, including the CDC, hospitals, and laboratories.
- Support and troubleshoot existing .NET applications and Windows-based environments.
- Build PowerShell and SQL scripts and tools to automate and maintain applications and infrastructure.
- Work with internal teams to assess current architecture and recommend improvements.
- Participate in daily and weekly planning and architecture discussions for modernization efforts.
- Document work and transfer knowledge to client staff.
- Track project time in 7pace Timetracker.
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