Health Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a Systems Analyst or Developer.
• Knowledge of systems analysis principles and practices, including technologies, products, trends, standards, operations, best practices, and governance.
• Knowledge of IT network architectures, including load balancing, redundancy, high availability, and network security.
• Knowledge of web data exchange methods such as AJAX, SOAP, or JSON.
• Knowledge of Health IT best practices, including high availability and HIPAA privacy regulations.
• Knowledge of security requirements and configurations for remediating vulnerabilities identified in security reports.
• Knowledge of high-level programming and runtime environments in Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, MVC, C#, JavaScript and frameworks such as React or Angular, and Visual Basic/VB.NET.
• Knowledge of high-level programming and runtime environments in Linux technologies, including C, C++, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python.
• Ability to develop IT system requirements and technical specifications from complex user requirements.
• Ability to analyze and optimize system performance and resource utilization.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a development team managing multiple concurrent programming activities.
• Skill in planning, prioritizing, and implementing assigned projects, including contributing to project management tasks or personnel.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, IT teams, and others at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to develop and implement large-scale custom integration and software projects across multiple IT environments, including MS .NET or LAMPS.
• Ability to use database tools, specifically SQL and SQL variants.
• Skill in designing and implementing test plans, test cases, and test strategies, including automated test execution.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Must work onsite at an HHS office in Austin, Texas, at least 3–5 days per week.

Nice To Haves

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in a related field is preferred; work experience may substitute for education year-for-year, up to four years.
• Knowledge of Health IT data exchange protocols such as HL7 and X12.

Responsibilities

• Administer vendor-supported systems, analyze production issues, troubleshoot to keep applications operational, perform ongoing maintenance, and ensure systems are tested and deployed successfully.
• Prepare and implement test plans and scripts for enhancements or modifications to vendor-supported systems.
• Administer custom-developed systems, analyze production issues, troubleshoot to keep applications operational, perform ongoing maintenance, and ensure systems are tested and deployed successfully.
• Prepare and implement test plans and scripts and work within the SDLC to implement enhancements or modifications to custom-developed systems.
• Analyze assigned work requests using the Help Desk Remedy process to estimate effort hours, costs, and duration.
• Develop and maintain required documentation according to Project Management Life Cycle, System Development Life Cycle, and governance processes.
• Coordinate with other teams on security activities, application and system audits, annual disaster recovery exercises, annual security and risk assessments, vulnerability analysis and remediation, and other regular maintenance.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes through automation, consolidation, and efficiency, and provide possible solutions.
• Participate in or support agency disaster response, recovery, or Continuity of Operations activation when assigned.
• Attend work regularly and predictably in accordance with agency leave policy and perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 100% paid employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Generous time-off benefits.
• Opportunities for career advancement.