GIS Analyst - Consultant

Base pay range

$46.66 / hr - $48.27 / hr

Senior IT Recruiter at US Tech Solutions

Duration : 12+ Months Contract

Candidate MUST be a SC resident. Open to candidates from NC, GA, or FL who are willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

Job Summary

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 position will be utilized for 40 hours per week for the duration of this project. The selected candidate should be able to work flexible hours where it may be necessary for work to be completed outside traditional business hours. Schedules among the team can be coordinated to ensure coverage of operational hours of Monday – Sunday, 7 : 00 AM – 6 : 00 PM.

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 customers and subject matter experts for the system design and testing.

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

Module Support of the Project

DPH Support

Required Skills (Ranked in Order of Importance)

Preferred Skills (Ranked in Order of Importance)

Required Education

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

About US Tech Solutions

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Recruiter Details

Email : mohd.mazharuddin@ustechsolutionsinc.com

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