Data Engineer

Overview

The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in advancing the designing, building, and maintaining data infrastructure. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation's public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

Working within South Dakota Department of Health's (SD-DOH) Epidemiology, Surveillance and Informatics Center (ESIC), the Data Engineer will play a pivotal role in documenting and maintaining the case-based disease surveillance system architecture required for data generation, storage, processing, and analysis. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Document the existing architecture of the case-based disease surveillance system, including system interactions and data generation, storage, processing, and analysis.
• Maintain current and develop the future-state case-based disease surveillance system architectural diagrams to ensure the system continues to be robust, scalable, and aligned with the SD-DOH's public health goals.
• Facilitate and collaborate with end-users and technical staff to understand requirements and deliver effective surveillance system solutions.
• Evaluate, design, and implement both the existing and proposed future-state disease surveillance system solutions. Ensure that the solutions meet the needs of all stakeholders within SD-DOH, including being adaptable to evolving challenges. This includes conducting an environmental scan of system requirements completed by other jurisdictions.
• Document all aspects of the system architecture, including design decisions, data flow processes, and system requirements. Maintain clear and comprehensive records to support ongoing system maintenance and future upgrades.
• A work product for this position includes creating a final requirements document with all necessary technical specifications for a future-state case-based surveillance system listed clearly and concisely.
• Create and manage the systems and pipelines that enable efficient and reliable flow of data, including ingestion, processing, and storage.
• Collect data from various sources, transforming and cleaning it to ensure accuracy and consistency. Load data into storage systems or data warehouses.
• Optimize data pipelines, infrastructure, and workflows for performance and scalability.
• Monitor data pipelines and systems for performance issues, errors, and anomalies, and implement solutions to address them.
• Implement security measures to protect sensitive information.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other partners to understand their data needs and requirements, and to ensure that the data infrastructure supports the organization's goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design scalable solutions that meet business needs.
• Implement and maintain ETL processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data.
• Design and manage data storage systems, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, and data warehouses.
• Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in data engineering, and incorporating the trends into the organization's data infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance to other staff.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including data content experts, analysts, data scientists, epidemiologists, IT staff, and other organizational personnel.
• Communicate effectively with partners at all levels of the organization to gather requirements, provide updates, and present findings.

Qualifications

Job Highlights

Special Notes

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.

We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

About the CDC Foundation

The CDC Foundation helps CDC save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC's critical health protection mission. The CDC Foundation manages hundreds of programs each year impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.

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