SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER (DATA & ANALYTICS)

About the role

The Senior Application Developer plays a crucial role in the healthcare data and analytics unit, responsible for analyzing, designing, evaluating, developing, coding, testing, and maintaining complex application systems.

Responsibilities

• Writes, troubleshoots, and optimizes complex Transact-SQL and PL/SQL codes to ensure alignment with state requirements.
• Investigates and fixes data anomalies through root cause analysis using tools like Excel, Tableau, and ETL platforms.
• Buils complex data models for business intelligence solutions and creates dashboards and reports using Tableau and Business Objects.
• Applies transformations, data cleansing, normalization best practices, and abstraction and inheritance programming concepts to ensure quality data solutions.
• Elicits and documents user requirements for large, complex systems or enhancements, ensuring functional and technical requirements are fully documented.
• Translates technical tasks to a non-technical audience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Data Science.
• Three (3) years of enterprise-level, full-time, paid experience in a data and analytics unit, involving design, development, troubleshooting, and optimization of complex Transact-SQL and PL/SQL code.
• Experience with investigating and resolving data anomalies using root cause analysis and tools such as Excel, Tableau, and ETL platforms.
• Building advanced data models and delivering actionable business intelligence through dashboards and reports with Tableau and Business Objects.
• Applying data transformation and quality best practices and documenting detailed user requirements for complex data products while effectively communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform to build data pipelines, manage cloud data warehouses, or implement ETL processes.
• Experience with analyzing pay-for-performance (P4P) program measures in a healthcare environment, including evaluating healthcare quality metrics, validating measure calculations, and supporting reporting requirements.
• Experience using health data exchange formats such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for data integration, exchange, or interoperability.
• Experience applying standardized medical coding systems, including Current Procedural Terminology (CPT-4), International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT).

Desirable Qualifications

• One (1) year of experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform.
• One (1) year of experience analyzing pay-for-performance (P4P) program measures in a healthcare environment.
• One (1) year of experience applying Agile project management methodology and using JIRA to track project progress, manage workflows, and coordinate tasks across cross-functional teams.

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Pay

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Schedule

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Contact

Tanisha Buggs, Exam Analyst
(213) 288-7000
tbuggs@dhs.lacounty.gov