Senior Developer/Programmer Analyst (SAS/Python/R)

Senior Developer/Programmer Analyst (SAS/Python/R)
Austin, TX (Hybrid)
Experience: 15+ Years

Join the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) as a Senior Developer/Programmer Analyst (DPA 3) in Austin, TX. This role is a hybrid position with a long-term duration, requiring a seasoned professional with a minimum of 15 years of experience in developing, testing, maintaining, and troubleshooting scripts in SAS, Python, R, or similar languages. You will play a pivotal role in system integration, dashboard creation, and automation for interoperability workflows, working with structured or semi-structured health, public health, or complex administrative data.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Developer/Programmer Analyst, your responsibilities will include:

• Running needs assessments for eICR ingestion into TBIRDS and auto-population of select fields.
• Writing system requirements documents that cover interoperability functions and workflows.
• Building and maintaining SAS, Python, or R programs and dashboards that triage cases for clinical review and automate data ingestion.
• Testing and validating automated workflows for accuracy, completeness, and reliability, and fixing any issues that arise.
• Supporting the incorporation of electronic health data into existing registry workflows.
• Documenting technical processes, limitations, and recommendations for future interoperability projects.

Requirements

<>Required Skills

• 8+ years of experience in developing, testing, maintaining, and troubleshooting scripts in SAS, Python, R, or similar.
• Experience with system integration, dashboard creation, and automation for interoperability workflows.
• Proficiency in working with structured or semi-structured health, public health, or complex administrative data, plus database querying.
• Ability to write system requirements documents and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Experience in testing and validating automated data-integration solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical staff and work collaboratively.
• Experience in documenting code and technical specifications.

<>Preferred Skills

• 2+ years of experience with eCR/eICR, EHR or Health Information Exchange, and standards such as HL7, XML, FHIR, SNOMED CT.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, public health surveillance systems or registries, data linkage and matching, and automated data pipelines or ETL.