Scientific Programmer II - Children's Learning Institute
About The Position
UTHealth Houston and Children's Learning Institute is hiring a Scientific Programmer II! This role will support Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System (TECPDS) and Texas Infant-Toddler Specialist Network! UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. This position applies experience and technical skills obtained from a concentrated degree program in the biomedical sciences, computer science or engineering in defining requirements and designing and developing highly specialized programs and applications in a research setting. In addition, this position mentors junior level colleagues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or engineering required.
- 3 years of relevant research experience in appropriate scientific area required.
- Strong skills in query optimization, data modeling, table design, and data validation.
- Experience developing ETL/ELT processes for data integration, transformation, and reporting.
- Working with large datasets and multiple data sources to support business intelligence and analytics initiatives.
- Creating dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.
- Gathering reporting requirements from stakeholders and translating business needs into technical solutions.
- Automating data collection, reporting, and quality assurance processes.
- Familiarity with Jira.
- Strong collaboration skills.
- Effective written/verbal communication.
- Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
Responsibilities
- Defines program and/or system requirements working with stakeholders.
- Leads the design of programs and systems from requirements.
- Ensures that the specification provided are thorough and detailed in order to avoid problems in coding development.
- Verifies the design with system stakeholders. Makes changes as appropriate.
- Translates program and system requirements into technical specifications.
- Codes moderate and complex programs and ensures that the programs conform to technical specifications.
- Thoroughly and adequately unit tests all functions of the program.
- Designs and conducts system and integration testing. Works with stakeholders to verify results.
- Prepares documentation on the program or series of programs.
- Prepares the proper paperwork and follows correct procedures for implementing new programs or changes in production.
- Responsible for the maintenance of completed/existing programs and systems.
- Adheres to departmental standards and generally accepted industry standards, policies and procedures for system development. Promotes the adherence to standards among junior colleagues.
- Maintains currency in subject matter required to perform job. Consults resource materials as needed.
- Perform quality assurance reviews on junior colleagues' work.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Awesome retirement/pension plan
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
